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APRIL 2025
2–6 April: New Music Dublin
3–6 April: Baltimore Irish Trad Fest, USA
3–6 April: Fiddle Hell, Online
4–6 April: CROÍLÁR Festival, Athlone
4–6 April: Kildare Jazz Festival, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
4–6 April: Sean-nós Cois Life, Dublin
8–13 April: Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway
11–15 April: Edinburgh International Harp Festival
11–13 April: Tullamore TradFest
11–13 April: Granard Booktown Festival, Co. Longford
11–20 April: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, California
17–21 April: National Folk Festival, Canberra, Australia
22–26 April: Music Current – Contemporary Music Festival, Dublin
23–26 April: Cruinniú na bhFlúit
24–26 April: Jazzahead!, Bremen, Germany
24–27 April: Consairtín – National Concertina Convention, Ennis, Co. Clare
24–27 April: Clifden Trad Fest, Co. Galway
25–27 April: The Sugarloaf Sessions, Bray, Co. Wicklow 
30 April–4 May: Cork International Choral Festival

MAY 2025
1–31 May: Bealtaine, across Ireland
2–5 May: Shetland Folk Festival
2–5 May: Féile Chois Cuain, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo
2–6 May: City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival
2–6 May: Birr Festival of Music 
2–6 May: Féile na Bealtaine, Daingean Uí Chúis, Co. Kerry
2–10 May: Galway Theatre Festival
2–12 May: Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast
3–4 May: Tradition Now, National Concert Hall, Dublin
3–5 May: Girvan Traditional Folk Festival
2–4 May: Bray Jazz Festival
3–5 May: Long Play, Brooklyn, New York
3–6 May: Féile Joe Éinniú, Carna, Co. Galway
3–6 May: Riverfest Limerick
3–6 May: Cup of Tae Festival, Ardara, Co. Donegal
3–6 May: Féile Oriel, Monaghan
3–6 May: Ballydehob Jazz Festival
3–6 May: Kilkenny Roots Festival
4–6 May: Fleadh na gCuach, Kinvara, Co. Galway
4 May: Towers and Tales Children’s Book Festival, Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford
4–5 May: Tectonics, Glasgow
4–6 May: Drogheda Arts Festival
9–12 May: Fiddle Fair, Baltimore, Cork
15–18 May: The Great Escape, Brighton, UK 
10–12 May: Ceol na gCruach, Glenties, Co. Donegal
10–26 May: Norfolk & Norwich Festival
11 May: Whitchurch Folk Festival, Hampshire, England
11 May: Robert Tressell Festival, Dublin
14–25 May: Dublin Dance Festival
15–17 May: World Fiddle Day, Scartaglin, Co. Kerry
15–19 May: West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival
16–19 May: Songlines Encounters Festival, Kings Place, London
16 May–25 Aug: Glyndebourne Festival
17–19 May: Féile Róise Rua, Arranmore
17–26 May: Manchester Jazz Festival
17–26 May: International Literature Festival, Dublin
18 May: Terrain Festival – Belfast’s one day festival of new music, Accidental Theatre, Belfast
18–26 May: Cellissimo, Galway
25 May: Nasc Folk & Traditional Music Festival, Marlay Park, Dublin
22–26 May: Midleton Arts Festival, Midleton, Co. Cork
22 May–5 June: Bergen International Festival
22–24 May: Brighton Music Conference
22–26 May: Fastnet Film Festival, Schull, Co. Cork
23–26 May: Knockengorroch Festival, Galloway, South West Scotland
23–26 May: Bearded Theory’s Spring Gathering, Derbyshire, UK
23–26 May: Orkney Folk Festival
24–26 May: Féile Binn Éadair, Howth, Co. Dublin
25 May–3 June: Fleadh Nua, Ennis. Co. Clare
27 May–3 June: Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, Lismore, Co. Waterford 
29 May–2 June: Primavera Pro, Barcelona 
29 May – 2 June: Bord Bia Bloom
30 May–3 June: Mountshannon Arts Festival
30 May & 7–9 June: Limerick Sings
31 May–2 June: SCS Killaloe Music Festival, Co. Clare
31 May–3 June: K-FEST, Killorglin, Co. Kerry
31 May–9 June: Galway Early Music Festival

JUNE 2025
25 May–3 June: Fleadh Nua, Ennis. Co. Clare
27 May–3 June: Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, Lismore, Co. Waterford 
29 May–2 June: Primavera Pro, Barcelona 
30 May–3 June: Mountshannon Arts Festival
31 May–2 June: SCS Killaloe Music Festival, Co. Clare
31 May–3 June: K-FEST, Killorglin, Co. Kerry
31 May–9 June: Galway Early Music Festival
1–2 June: Forbidden Fruit Festival, Dublin
1–2 June: Roots Picnic, Philadelphia
4–9 June: Dublin International Chamber Music Festival
5–8 June: Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival, Co. Mayo
5–8 June: Minnesota Irish Music Weekend
5–9 June: Carlow Arts Festival
5–9 June: Galway Folk Festival
6 June: Desmond Fennell Summer Seminar
6–8 June: Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
7–9 June: Limerick Sings
7–9 June: Roscommon Chamber Music Festival
7–9 June: Home Sweet Home – A Festival of Literature and Living, Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin
7–9 June: Skerries Trad Music Weekend
7–9 June: Féile na Gealaí, Ráth Chairn
7–9 June: Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas, Carlow
7–15 June: Hertfordshire Festival of Music
7–16 June: Leipzig Bachfest, Germany
7–29 June: Belsonic, Ormeau Park, Belfast
11–15 June: Féile Fearann Rí, Cork
12–15 June: Ruaille Buaille Lucan Children’s Music Festival
12–23 June: Cork Midsummer Festival
13–16 June: Waterford International Organ Festival 
13–16 June: Lismore Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, Lismore, Co. Waterford
13–16 June: Dalkey Book Festival
13–22 June: Northern Aldborough Festival
14–15 June: Louth Contemporary Music Society Festival: Lovely Music
14–16 June: Doolin Folk Festival, Clare
14–16 June: Black Deer Festival, Kent
14–23 June: La Prima Estate Festival, Lido di Camaiore, Italy
15–23 June: Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Angelika Kauffmann Hall, Schwarzenberg, Austria
16 June–4 July: Longborough Festival Opera, Gloucestershire
19–23 June: Pipeworks Organ and Choral Festival, Dublin
20–23 June: Isle of Wight Festival
21–23 June: Beyond the Pale
22 June: Macroom Music Fest, Co. Cork
23–30 June: Spannungen Festival, Germany
24 June–5 July June: Blas – International Summer School of Irish Traditonal Music and Dance, Limerick
26–30 June: Glastonbury Festival
26–30 June: New Opera Days Ostrava, Czech Republic
27–30 June: Hinterland, Kells, Co. Meath
27 June–6 July: Festival International de Jazz, Montreal
28–30 June: Edenderry Music Festival, Edenderry GAA Grounds, Co. Offaly
28–30 June: Blues from the Top, Winter Park, Colorado
28 June–1 July: Night and Day, Lough Key Forest Park, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
29 June: Mother Pride Block Party, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin
29–30 June: Longitude, Dublin
30 June–4 July: The Stinging Fly Summer School, The Irish Writers Centre and Online

JULY 2025
28 June–7 July: Clonmel Junction Arts Festival
28 June–7 July: West Cork Chamber Music Festival
30 June–5 July: An Chúirt Chruitireachta – International Festival for Irish Harp, Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
1–9 July: Cairde Sligo Arts Festival
1–10 July: Irish Composition Summer School, TU Dublin
2–26 July: Lucca Summer Festival, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy 
7 July: The Yoga Picnic, Lilliput House, Banks of Lough Ennell, Co. Westmeath
4–6 July: Music for Youth National Festival, Birmingham
4–7 July: Sound Within Sound, Southbank Centre, London
4–9 July: Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, Wales
5–6 July: Camlin Keys Piano Festival, Longford
6–8 July: Stendhal Festival, Limavady
6–8 July: NOS Alive, Lisbon Portugal
6–13 July: Cheltenham Music Festival
6–14 July: Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare
7–16 July: Irish Composition Summer School 2025, Grangegorman, Dublin
8–9 July: RAMP new music weekend, Rathmullan, Co. Donegal
8–12 July: Ceol na Coille School of Irish Traditional Music, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
9–14 July: Galway Film Fleadh
9–14 July: Halifax Jazz Festival, Canada
10–21 July: HarpMasters Academy, Mondovì, Cuneo, Italy
11–13 July: Heroines of Sound, Radialsystem, Berlin
11–14 July: Kinsale Arts Weekend, Online
12–19 July: West Cork Literary Festival, Bantry, Cork
13–28 July: Earagail Arts Festival, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
14–20 July: South Sligo Summer School, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo
14–20 July: Catskills Irish Arts Week
15–19 Jul: Summer Sing!, Cork
15–28 July: Galway International Arts Festival
17 July–18 August: Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz, Austria
17–19 July: MacGill Summer School, Highlands Hotel, Glenties, Co. Donegal
18–21 Jul: New Ross Guitar Festival
18–21 July: Ballybunion Arts Festival
18–27 July: Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon
19–21 July: Forest Fest, Emo, Co. Laois
19–21 July: Soma Festival, Castlewellan, Co. Down
19–28 July: Music at Paxton Festival, Paxton House Scottish Borders
19 July–14 Sept: BBC Proms
19–21 July: Tomorrowland (Weekend One), Belgium
19–21 July: Dublin HandelFest, Dublin Castle
20 July–31 August: Salzburg Festival, Germany
21–28 July: Belfast TradFest & Summer School
23–25 July: The Percy French Festival, Castlecoote House, Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon
23–28 July: Sligo Jazz Project International Summer School
25–28 July: Boyne Music Festival, Drogheda
25–28 July: WOMAD, Charlton Park, Wiltshire
25–28 July: Cambridge Folk Festival
25–28 July: Camp Bestival, Dorset, UK
26–28 July: Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, England 
26 July–1 August: Scoil na gCláirseach – Festival of Early Irish Harp, Kilkenny and online
28 July–3 August: Scoil Acla
28 July–5 Aug: ConCorda Chamber Music Course for Strings, Newtown School, Waterford
30 July–16 August: Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, Massachusetts

AUGUST 2025
1–4 August: Kendal Calling, Lowther Deer Park, The Lake District
1–4 Aug: Ballyshannon Folk and Traditional Music Festival, Co. Donegal
1–4 August: Lollapalooza, Grant Park, Chicago
1–4 Aug: All Together Now, Curraghmore, Waterford
1–11 Aug: Jazz em Agosto, Lisbon
2–4 Aug: Spraoi International Street Arts Festival, Waterford
2–4 Aug: Rhythms on the Rio, Del Norte, Colorado
2–4 Aug: Dublin Irish Festival, Ohio
2–9 Aug: Sidmouth Folk Festival, Devon, England
2–25 Aug: Edinburgh International Festival
2–26 Aug: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe
4–11 Aug: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, Wexford Town
5 Aug: Fiesta del Sol, Carrickmacross
5–6 Aug: Loosefest, Town Moor, Newcastle, UK
7–12 Aug: Sziget Festival, Budapest
7–12 Aug: Feakle Festival
8–10 Aug: King John Summer Prom Festival, Trim, Co. Meath
8–18 Aug: Kilkenny Arts Festival
9–11 Aug: Thing Festival, Remlinger Farms, Carnation, Washington
9–11 Aug: Outside Lands, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
9–11 Aug: Flow Festival, Helsinki 
9–11 Aug: Howth Roots and Blues Festival
10–24 Aug: TIME:SPANS, DiMenna Center For Classical Music, New York
6–31 Aug: Open House Festival, Bangor
13–15 Aug: Wild Roots, Sligo
14–15 Aug: Yurt City, Tullamore
15–18 Aug: FolkEast Festival, Glemham Hall, Suffolk
15–18 Aug: Camp Festival Shropshire, Weston Park Shropshire
15–18 Aug: Milwaukee Irish Fest, Wisconsin
15–18 Aug: Chamber Music on Valentia, Co. Kerry
15–18 Aug: Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons
17–20 August: Camp Bestival Shropshire, Shropshire, UK
17–24 Aug: Clandeboye Festival, Bangor
19–31 Aug: Open House Festival, Bangor
21–24 Aug: Tønder Festival, Denmark
21–25 Aug: Masters of Tradition, Bantry, Co. Cork 
22–25 Aug: Shambala, Northamptonshire
22–26 Aug: Cornwall Folk Festival
23–25 Aug: Another Love Story, Killyon Manor, Meath
23–25 Aug: Reading Leeds 
23–25 Aug: Victorious Festival, Southsea, UK
23–25 Aug: Glenarm Festival of Voice, Co. Antrim 
23–26 Aug: Shrewsbury Folk Festival
24–25 Aug: Smithfield Fleadh, Dublin
24–25 Aug: Emerge Music Festival, Boucher Road Playing Fields, Belfast
24 Aug–1 Sept: Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Angelika Kauffmann Hall, Schwarzenberg, Austria
25 Aug–2 Sept: Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, Nevada
29–31 Aug: Kennedy Summer School, New Ross, Co. Wexford
30 Aug–1 Sept: Pop-Kultur, Berlin 
30 Aug–1 Sept: Sundown, Norfolk Showground, Norwich 
30 Aug–1 Sept: Mosely Folk and Arts Festival, Mosely Park, Birmingham

SEPTEMBER 2025

4–8 Sept: Gaudeamus Festival, Utrecht
5–8 Sept: Westport Festival of Chamber Music, Westport, Co. Mayo
5–9 Sept: Harvest Time Rhythm & Blues Festival, Monaghan Town
5 Sept–3 Oct: Beethovenfest Bonn, Germany
5–15 Sept: London Podcast Festival
7–22 Sept: Dublin Fringe Festival, Dublin 
12–15 Sept: Cashel Arts Festival
12–21 Sept: North Wales International Music Festival, St Asaph
13–15 Sept: Ainm Cleite – Féile na bhFilí & na Scríbhneoirí, Ceantar na nÓilean, Conamara
14–15 Sept: Fuinneamh, Bellurgan Park, Co. Louth
19–22 Sept: Vantastival, Drogheda, Co. Louth
19–22 Sept: Clonakilty International Guitar Festival, Cork
12–21 Sept: North Wales International Music Festival, St Asaph
18–22 Sept: Whiddon Autumn Festival, Devon
18–29 Sept: Clifden Arts Festival
19–22 Sept: Drimoleague Singing Festival, West Cork
20 Sept: Culture Night, Nationwide 
20–21 Sept: Southdowns Music Festival, Bognor Regis
20–22 Sept: Beonix Electronic Music Festival, Limassol, Cyprus
21–22 Sept: Hidden Notes, Stroud, Gloucestershire
25–29 Sept: New Ross Piano Festival
26–29 Sept: Limerick Jazz Festival
26 Sept–13 Oct: Dublin Theatre Festival
27–29 Sept: Write by the Sea, Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford
27–29 Sept: Kavanagh Weekend, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan
27–29 Sept: Sligo Baroque Music Festival
27–29 Sept: Dorn san Aer, Gaoth Dobhair

OCTOBER 2025

1–4 Oct: Ireland Music Week, Dublin
2–6 Oct: Cork Folk Festival 
2–6 Oct: Schubertiade Hohenems, Markus-Sittikus-Saal, Hohenems, Austria
2–6 Oct: Féile Chois Fharraige, Conamara, Co. na Gaillimhe
3–6 Oct: Éigse Michael Hartnett, Limerick
3–6 Oct: Féile Liam O’Flynn, Naas and Kill Village, Co. Kildare
3 Oct–23 Nov: K-music – Korean Music Festival, London
4–6 Oct: London Piano Festival
4–13 Oct: Ballina Fringe Festival, Co. Mayo
8–18 Oct: Tipperary Dance International Festival
11–13 Oct: Marsden Jazz Festival, Yorkshire
11–13 Oct: Derby Folk Festival
11–20 Oct: Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, Galway
11–26 Oct: Oxford International Song Festival, Oxford
14–20 Oct: Red Line Book Festival, Tallaght, Dublin
16 Oct–26 Nov: Belfast International Arts Festival 
16–20 Oct: Amsterdam Dance Event, Amsterdam
17–20 Oct: Ed Reavy Traditional Music Festival, Cavan
17 Oct–24 Nov: Irish Film Festival Australia
18–27 Oct: Bloomsbury Festival, London
18 Oct–2 Nov: Wexford Festival Opera
18 Oct–3 Nov: Wexford Spiegeltent Festival
19–20 Oct: Lá na Cruite / Harp Day 
23–27 Oct: City of Derry International Choir Festival 
24–26 Oct: Womex, Manchester, England
25–26 Oct: Big Bang Festival, Lisbon
25–27 Oct: London Guitar Festival
22–27 Oct: Imagine Arts Festival, Waterford
23 Oct–3 Nov: London Literature Festival
24 Oct–3 Nov: Sligo Live
25–29 Oct: Sound Festival, Scotland
25–30 Oct: Westival, Westport, Co. Mayo
26–29 Oct: Creative Connexions Ireland, Sitges, Barcelona
26–30 Oct: Guinness Cork Jazz Festival
27 Oct: Frank Maher Classical Music Awards, Dublin
27–28 Oct: Big Bang Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
29–31 Oct: Spleodar Halloween Arts Festival, Tipperary
30 Oct–3 Nov: Oireachtas na Samhna
31 Oct–3 Nov: Púca Halloween Festival

NOVEMBER 2025
6–10 Nov: Dublin Book Festival
7–9 Nov: Iceland Airwaves
7–10 Nov: Fiddle Hell, Westford, MA
7–11 Nov: Ennis Trad Fest
7–16 Nov: IMRAM: Féile Litríochta Gaeilge
7–17 Nov: Sound of Belfast
7–17 Nov: Cork International Film Festival
8–10 Nov: Dingle Distillery International Film Festival Masters Weekend, Dingle, Co. Kerry
11–17: Galway TradFest, Galway City and County
14–17 Nov: West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival Winter Weekend
14–17 Nov: William Kennedy Piping Festival, Armagh
15–17 Nov: Spilt Milk Festival, Sligo 
15–17 Nov: Louder Than Words
15–23 Nov: Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast
15–24 Nov: EFG London Jazz Festival
15–24 Nov: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
15 Nov–23 Dec: Winterval Waterford
16 Nov: Live at Leeds
16–17 Nov: Tradition Now, NCH, Dublin
17–18 Nov: Big Bang Festival, Ghent, Belgium
19–23 November: GAIA Musikfestival, Thun and Berne, Switzerland
21–24 Nov: Big Bang Festival, Lille, France
21–24 Nov: Birmingham TradFest
21–25 Nov: Oireachtas 1983–2023 – Ceiliúradh, An Cheathrú Rua, Co. na Gaillimhe
22–24 Nov: The Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival, Dublin 
29 Nov–1 Dec: Other Voices, Dingle 
29 Nov–1 Dec: Éigse Dhiarmuid Uí Shúilleabháin, Muscraí, Co. Cork 
30 Nov: MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards, Aberdeen Music Hall

DECEMBER 2025
27–31 Dec: Scoil Gheimhridh Ghaoth Dobhair, Donegal

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JANUARY 2026
4–18 Jan: First Fortnight, Ireland
4–26 Jan: Out to Lunch, Belfast
10–14 Jan: APAP, New York
15–18 Jan: Eurosonic Noorderslag, Groningen
15–19 Jan: Your Roots Are Showing – Ireland’s Folk Conference, Dundalk
16 Jan–2 Feb: Celtic Connections, Glasgow
17–19 Jan: Music for Galway Midwinter Festival, Galway
22–26 Jan: TradFest, Dublin
22–26 Jan: Ballincollig Winter Music Festival
24–26 Jan: Scoil Gheimhridh Merriman, The Old Ground, Ennis, Co. Clare
25–27 Jan: Hedge School Doolin
26 Jan–3 Feb: Féile na Tána, Co. Louth 
28 Jan–4 Feb: Imbolc International Music Festival, Derry
31 Jan–3 Feb: Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women, Dublin 

FEBRUARY 2026
2–5 Feb: Tionól Nioclás Tóibín, An Rinn, Co. Waterford
7 Feb: Irish Association of Youth Orchestras Festival
14–16 Feb: Concertina Cruinniú, Miltown Malbay Co. Clare
19–23 Feb: Scoil Ceoil an Earraigh, Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, Co. Kerry
21–22 Feb: Mother Tongues, Dublin 
20 Feb–3 March: Dublin International Film Festival
22 Feb: Chester February Folk Day, Chester
26 Feb–2 Mar: Ortús Chamber Music Festival, Cork
26 Feb–2 Mar: Dublin Bowie Festival
26 Feb: RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards 2025 
28 Feb–8 March: Brilliant Corners: A Festival of Jazz in Belfast 
28 Feb–2 March: North Texas Irish Festival, Dallas, Texas
28 Feb–2 March: All Shucked Up – Howth Guiness Oyster & Music Festival

MARCH 2026
5–8 March: Fingal International Festival of Voices
6 March: RTÉ Choice Music Prize, Vicar Street, Dublin
6–9 March: Finding a Voice, Clonmel
6–9 March: TedFest, Inis Mór, Aran Islands
7–9 March: Ennis Bookclub Festival, Ennis
7–15 March: SXSW, Austin, Texas
8–17 March: Manchester Irish Festival
12–16 March: Borealis, Bergen, Norway
13–16 March: Walled City Music Festival
14–17 March: St. Patrick’s Festival, Kilkenny
15–17 March: St. Patrick’s Festival, Dublin
21 March: Early Music Day
21–23 March: Limerick Early Music Festival
27–30 March: Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee
21–24 March: Inishowen International Folk Song & Ballad Seminar 

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