Kilkenny Tradfest 2024 bringing you live music, ceol agus craic

Kilkenny has always been one of the country’s top destinations for live music, offering everything from live music sessions, sing-alongs, from trad to folk and ballads.

For music lovers, Kilkenny Tradfest takes place alongside the St. Patrick’s Festival Kilkenny from March 15 to 18, and will bring live, in person performances to a range of venues across Kilkenny City. It is a traditional music festival with gigs from some of the best Irish Musicians and Tradfest Kilkenny have just launched the headline acts who will grace Kilkenny City's stages and venues on St. Patrick's weekend this year.

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Perennial favourites Hothouse Flowers, John Spillane and Iarla Ó Lionáird will be joined by newcomers including Pádraig Jack, Buíoch, BreakingTrad and Clare Sands. There is no better place to be and no better way to experience a real St. Patrick’s weekend in Kilkenny! 

Festival Committee Chairperson, Brendan Treacy, said they were very excited with this year's lineup and the fact that tickets are already selling fast within days of becoming available.

'Kilkenny Tradfest's team have worked really hard in recent months to secure some of the best performers in the traditional music scene in Ireland. Despite the attraction for so many artists to travel abroad for the national festival, they have consistently attracted both long-established acts and relative newcomers who are showing the brightness of the future of traditional and folk music.’ 

Special concerts and headline acts of the TradFest programme represent the very best of Irish traditional music and the 2024 line-up includes: Hothouse Flowers, John Spillane, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Shaskeen, Clancy's Kitchen, Clare Sands, Burnchurch, Tulla Céilí Band, Pádraig Jack, Breaking Trad, Buíoch, Nell Ní Chrónín, Kilfenora Céilí Band, Leonard Barry Trio and Reel to Reel.

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