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Blues
9.8.24 – Howth Roots and Blues Festival 2024, Abbey Tavern, Howth

Children and Young People
10.8.24 – Ta Tum Tum! @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, Shee Alms House, Kilkenny
10.8.24 – Ta Tum Tum! @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, Shee Alms House, Kilkenny
12.8.24 – Tutti Music Ireland Summer Orchestral Course, Dublin 6.

Choral
10.8.24 – 43rd International Choral Conducting Summer School – Presented by Sing Ireland, Irish World Academy of Music & Dance, Limerick
10.8.24 – Drone Mass – Jóhann Jóhannsson: Chamber Choir Ireland & Crash Ensemble @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny
11.8.24 – Chamber Choir Ireland – Romantic Music from Vienna @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny

Classical
7.8.24 – Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ & World Premiere of Ailbhe McDonagh’s ‘The Irish Four Seasons’, St. Nathy’s Cathedral, Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
8.8.24 – The 9th Bach Festival Gers 2024, Mirande / Église Sainte-Marie
8.8.24 – Francesco Ghirxi - organ, St Ann’s Church Dawson Street
8.8.24 – Organ & Harmonium, Galway Cathedral
8.8.24 – Lir Quartet in Castletownshend, St Barrahane’s Church, Castletownsend
9.8.24 – Carducci String Quartet @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, St John’s Priory, Kilkenny
9.8.24 – Lir Quartet in Kenmare, Kenmare Butter Market The Square Kenmare Co. Kerry
9.8.24 – Conducting Workshop with Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble, Harty Room, Queen’s University Belfast
10.8.24 – Lir Quartet in Cork, Triskel Christchurch, Cork
10.8.24 – Carducci String Quartet @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, St John’s Priory, Kilkenny
10.8.24 – Lir Quartet in Rathmore, Co. Kerry, Knockaseed House Rathmore Co. Kerry
11.8.24 – Live at Rathfarnham Castle: Ruth O’Hara (harp) and Megan O’Neill (soprano), Rathfarnham Castle
11.8.24 – Lir Quartet in Doneraile, Doneraile Court
11.8.24 – The Irish Four Seasons, St Brigids Church of Ireland, Castleknock

Electronic
11.8.24 – Belters Only, Galway Airport

Folk and Traditional
6.8.24 – Martin Hayes in Conversation with Toner Quinn @ Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2024, Wexford Town Library
6.8.24 – Session with the Pipers - Na Píobairí Uilleann, The Cobblestone Pub, Dublin
8.8.24 – Restringing the Stone Fiddle - National Launch, Wexford Opera House
9.8.24 – RTÉ Concert Orchestra presents: Éire is Alba | Zoë Conway, John Mc Intyre, Julie Fowlis and Éamon Doorley, National Concert Hall, Dublin
10.8.24 – White Noise, Accidental Theatre, Belfast
10.8.24 – Bassekou Kouyate @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, Set Theatre, Kilkenny
10.8.24 – Poor Creature (feat. members of Landless/Lankum/The Jimmy Cake), Bello Bar
10.8.24 – RTÉ Concert Orchestra presents: Éire is Alba | Zoë Conway, John Mc Intyre, Julie Fowlis and Éamon Doorley @ Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2024, National Opera House, Wexford
11.8.24 – Second Saturday Soundscapes: Yvonne Casey & Eoin O’Neill, Emma Karran and Jyoshna La Trobe, Glór
11.8.24 – Aoife Ní Bhriain and Liam Byrne @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, The Parade Tower, Kilkenny
11.8.24 – The Back Room Dispatch, The Cobblestone Pub, Dublin

Jazz and Improvised
9.8.24 – Nils Kavanagh Trio at The Cooler, The Cooler at The Complex
10.8.24 – Irish Women in Jazz Presents: Luisa Annibali (Live Podcast & Concert Series), The Workman’s Cellar, Dublin

Musical Theatre
6.8.24 – Sing Me to the Sea by Anna Newell Theatre Adventures, St Gabriel’s Foundation, Limerick
7.8.24 –  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee
8.8.24 –  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee
9.8.24 –  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee

Opera
7.8.24 – Summer Recital at First Church Belfast, First Church Belfast
8.8.24 – Opera in the Open – Faust (Charles Gounod), Dublin City Council Civic Office Amphitheatre, Wood Quay, Dublin 8
8.8.24 – Irish National Opera presents: Trade / Mary Motorhead, Kilkenny Arts Festival
8.8.24 – Irish National Opera presents: Trade / Mary Motorhead @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, Watergate Theatre
9.8.24 – Irish National Opera presents: Trade / Mary Motorhead @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, Watergate Theatre
10.8.24 – Irish National Opera presents: Trade / Mary Motorhead @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, Watergate Theatre
11.8.24 – Irish National Opera presents: Trade / Mary Motorhead @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, Watergate Theatre 

Rock and Pop
7.8.24 – Josh Orange & Special guests Pete Holidai – Gavin Glass – Suddenly Smith – Both Ends Burning, Whelan’s Dublin
8.8.24 – We’ve Only Just Begun, Whelan’s Dublin
9.8.24 – David Murphy @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, Cleere’s Theatre
9.8.24 – The Human Touch Springsteen Tribute Band, The Limelight, Belfast
9.8.24 – David Murphy @ Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024, Cleere’s Theatre
9.8.24 – Lewis Barfoot & Band, Sirius Arts Centre Cobh Co. Cork
10.8.24 – Madness @ Galway Summer Sessions 2024, Galway Airport
10.8.24 – Verdant Productions: Mary Byrne - Check Me Out, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow
11.8.24 – This Is The Kit & Rozi Plain, An Taibhdhearc, Galway

Britain
9.8.24 – Billy Joel, Cardiff Principality Stadium 
11.8.24 – Feel Good Folk at Rochdale Feel Good Festival, Rochdale Town Hall Square

Listen Back
5.8.24 – An Taobh Tuathail, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta 
5.8.24 – The Blue of the Night with Bernard Clarke, Lyric FM 
4.8.24 – Fleadh24 - Na Cúigí, TG4
4.8.24 – South Wind Blows, RTÉ Radio 1
4.8.24 – The Rolling Wave, RTÉ Radio 1 
4.8.24 – Vespertine with Ellen Cranitch, RTÉ Lyric FM
5.8.24 – Mystery Train with John Kelly, RTÉ Lyric FM 
3.8.24 – Folk on One, RTÉ Radio 1 
27.7.24 – Second Captains Saturday – Móglaí Bap, RTÉ Radio 1 
11.7.24 – Melissa Harrison and Laura Cannell, Folk on Foot

Upcoming Festivals 
19 July–14 Sept: BBC Proms
20 July–31 August: Salzburg Festival, Germany
30 July–16 August: Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, Massachusetts
1–11 Aug: Jazz em Agosto, Lisbon
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
6–31 Aug: Open House Festival, Bangor
7–12 Aug: Feakle Festival
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

See a full list of upcoming festivals here.

Upcoming Job and Funding Deadlines       

6 August
Professor of Composition
Royal Northern College of Music

6 August
Project Coordinator – Creative Places (Balbriggan)
Fingal Arts Office

7 August
Show and Tell at Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Call for Artists/Companies
Culture Ireland, Irish Theatre Institute and Dublin Fringe Festival

9 August
Digital Content Creator
English National Opera

9 August
Social Media Manager
English National Opera

9 August
Education Manager
Scottish Opera

10 August
43rd International Choral Conducting Summer School – Presented by Sing Ireland
Irish World Academy of Music & Dance, Limerick

11 August
Senior Planner, Social
BBC Sounds

12 August
Esker Festival Orchestra 2024
University of Galway

12 August
Theatre Technician
Lyric Theatre, Belfast

12 August
Exploring & Thinking Residential Mentorship Programme
Fingal County, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County, South Dublin County and Dublin City Council

12 August
Waterford Poetry Prize 2024
Waterford Writers Weekend

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