Irish festivals
AVA Festival
AVA is an Audio Visual Arts Festival and Conference in Belfast that celebrates, amplifies and develops the strong current of electronic music and digital visual arts from Northern and Southern Ireland. The goal is to provide an opportunity for emerging and established artists, DJ’s, producers, managers, agents, labels, designers, visual artists, promoters and guests, to share their knowledge through a free daytime conference that progresses into the ticketed AVA Festival.
Belfast, 1,2/06/2018
BarnDance Festival
Glendalough, 30/03/2018
Fresh off the back of a super-successful sold-out Day Of The Dead Festival, BD Productions are back in 2018 with the one and only BD Festival! The location is a beautiful grounds of Glendalough House which is a fifteen hundred acre estate of mountainside, woodlands, pastures, rolling parklands and historic buildings located in the heart of Wicklow, providing the perfect setting for a fun festival!
Electric Picnic
Stradbally, 31/08, 1,2/09 2018
The Picnic has been described as "Ireland's version of Glastonbury" and "a great inspiration to Latitude" by one of its business partners. US
magazine Billboard calling it as "a magnificent rock n roll circus, a textbook example of everything a festival should be". Electric Picnic differs from other festivals in Ireland in that the music choice is more eclectic than the other mainstream events
Forbidden Fruit
Kilmainham, 2,3,4/06/2018
As if five stages of music, comedy and the spoken word weren’t enough, Bulmers has only gone and added a sixth stage to this year’s Forbidden Fruit Festival in support of immensely talented, emerging Irish artists. In what is set to become an annual feature at Forbidden Fruit, the Bulmers Live Stage – One Hundred Percent Irish Artists is a new platform that will play host to 19 artists over the three days, promoting the best in new Irish music.
Life Festival
Belvedere house, 25,26,27/05/2018
Life Festival originated from the Glade Arena at Glastonbury before becoming a full on festival in its own right in 2004 – & has grown every year since to become Ireland's biggest & best festival for electronic music. The setting is very much part of the Life ethos. Previous venues have included Charleville Castle, Ballinlough Castle & Lough Cutra Castle, before settling on our current home at the beautiful surroundings of Belvedere House, where the grounds & lake have become synonymous with the event.
Longitude
Marlay Park, 13,14,15/07/2018
Longitude has developed a lovely reputation of being a festival for the young ‘uns (age 18-25, approximately) on Friday and Saturday nights, with some of the best international acts giving it socks, while Sunday is reserved for the oldies. The line-up is heavier on the hip-hop and R&B side of things than it has been in previous years.
