Northside Music Festival

Temper-Mental MissElayneous

Northside Music Festival

This festival brings traditional, hip-hop and indie music out of the city centre and into venues across Dublin's north side for afternoon concerts and masterclasses suitable for all the family.

The Northside Music Festival 2012 takes place across most of this month, having opened on Monday 6 and running until Sunday 26 August. The festival, run by the Dublin City Council Arts Office with Artscope, brings music of all kinds out of the city centre and into venues in the north side of Dublin, including Wolfe Tone Square, Fr. Collins Park, St. Canices Church, The Red Stables

The festival incorporates concerts, family events and masterclasses, with most events taking place in the afternoon, such as Street Sounds, which brings Temper-Mental MissElayneous, one of the best known acts of the Irish hop-hop scene to an outdoor event at the Plaza Ballymun, as well as Hip-Nós, an axis: Ballymun project which fuses MCs, DJs and sean-nós.

Later in the festival is Slide, a flamboyant traditional music band, who will perform and give masterclasses at a family day on Saturday 12 August at St. Canice’s Church in Finglas. An indie gig brings together Bipolar Empire, Soalr Taxi and Rooftop Anthem for another outdoor event, at Fr. Collins Part in Congriffin, while world and folk bands The Lace and Traz will be joined by Brian Fleming, who will give a family drumming workshop on 19 August at The Red Stables. The Festival Finale takes place at the Tall Ships Races on George’s Dock, featuring more hip-hop in the form of Harry J and the Conspiracy, Dublin Gospel Choir, and a West African/Brazilian/Irish fusion band, Craiceann. On each Thursday throughout the festival, there will Opera in the Open performances in the Amphitheatre of the Civic Offices on Wood Quay, including Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin, and Street Scene – An American Opera, and a special performance of Cosi Fan Tutte at the Tall Ships Races.

For more information, visit the Arts Office website.

artscope.ie

Published on 11 August 2012

comments powered by Disqus