Gruff Rhys and More Added to St Patrick’s Festival

The St. Patrick’s Festival continues to do things right with the announcement of Gruff Rhys, Mount Alaska and more! Already on the list are artists like This is How we Fly (with special guest Iarla Ó Lionáird), Lisa Hannigan (sings pomes penyeach) and more besides. You can check out the full list here.

Gruff Rhys // The Breath // Brìghde Chaimbeul // Mount Alaska // Dublin Gospel Choir & Guests  

More music events announced for St. Patrick’s Festival 2020

The St. Patrick’s Festival this year continues to do things right with the announcement of Gruff Rhys, Mount Alaska and more besides! Already on the list are performers like This is How we Fly (with special guest Iarla Ó Lionáird), Lisa Hannigan (sings pomes penyeach) and more besides. You can check out the full list here.

Added to the Festival programme is Welsh music titan and Super Furry Animals’ frontman Gruff Rhys and a very special Irish guest yet to be announced, who will perform at Christchurch Cathedral on Friday March 13. The following night, Saturday March 14, BBC Radio 2 Folk award winners, Northern Irish-English alt-folk duo The Breath bring their unique and compelling sound to the Pepper Canister Church, along with Scottish piper and Guardian Folk Album of the Month winner Brìghde Chaimbeul with fiddle player Aidan O’Rourke. These two concerts form SEODA – A Celtic Collaboration: Ireland, Wales and Scotland and are presented in partnership with the Welsh and Scottish Governments in Ireland. SEODA highlights and strengthens the deep-rooted Celtic traditions that Ireland shares with its closest neighbours.

Dublin duo Stephen Shannon and Cillian Mc Donnell aka Mount Alaska bring their euphoric, electronic sounds to the Pepper Canister Church on Sunday March 15, while the ever impressive Dublin Gospel Choir will raise the rafters at the Pepper Canister on Monday March 16 and Tuesday March 17, with very special guests to be announced for both evenings. These shows are presented in partnership with Selective Memory.

Previously announced shows include Canadian electro artist Jessy Lanza who kicks off the brand-new Festival After Dark series with a show at Lost Lane on March 13; the now sold-out Annie Mac, Kojaque, Soulé, Denise Chaila and Guests at Guinness Storehouse on Saturday March 14; This is How We Fly with special guest Iarla Ó Lionáird at Liberty Hall Theatre on Sunday March 15 and the World Premiere of James Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach with Lisa Hannigan and Guests at The National Concert Hall on Monday March 16. Over at Vicar Street Colm Mac Con Iomaire with the Contempo Quartet perform his latest album The River Holds Its Breath, also on Monday March 16