
Alt-folk duo Anenome perform at this year’s Féile na Gréine in August.
‘It’s community-driven … it feels kind of DIY and grassroots because of where we've come from’: Féile na Gréine Announces 2024 Line-up
Limerick city alternative music festival Féile Na Gréine has announced its programme for the 2024 event, taking place from 23 to 25 August.
First held in 2018, Féile Na Gréine originated from a DIY scene of music promoters in the city. The festival still embodies this ethos, with a team led by volunteers and most concerts offered free of charge.
‘It’s community-driven … it feels kind of DIY and grassroots because of where we’ve come from,’ says Festival Director Diarmuid Ó Sé, speaking to the Journal of Music. ‘We basically started from two collectives who were putting on left-of-field alternative music shows in Limerick city, so we’ve always tried to maintain that and keep that feeling. We’re trying to make it feel special, to make it feel like a little community’.
The events take place in city centre venues such as Pharmacia, Ormston House, The Record Room and Mother Macs, and are curated with a music trail experience in mind. ‘The first couple of years, that’s how we designed it,’ says Ó Sé. ‘You’d start in one venue and then throughout the day, you’d make your way to each different one. As it’s grown and more people are around, there are a lot more … events, but there still is that trail vibe.’
This year’s programme includes a wife range of sounds, encompassing alternative-indie, electronic, experimental jazz, rap, punk, traditional, folk, and singer-songwriters from all across Ireland, such as Cork/Conamara experimental nine-piece Trá Pháidín, who combine traditional, jazz and post-rock and who released An 424 last November, named after the south Conamara bus route; and Belfast jazz-punk band Blue Whale, whose second album Last Immediate Images was released in March.
Tandem Felix, the alternative-indie project of David A. Tapley who last year released There’s a New Sheriff in Town, is also on the line-up, as well as Limerick DJ and producer 40Hurtz, Dublin alt-folk two-piece Anenome, Mynameisjohn – a former member of the Limerick rap trio Rusangano Family – and Palestinian dance artist and choreographer Amir Sabra, who is based in Ireland.
Other acts include experimental singer/songwriter Olan Monk, a capella folk singers Landless, Belfast post-punk band Junk Drawer, traditional duo Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and Ultan O’Brien, Cork indie-alternative band Crying Loser, Dublin improv band The Bonk, the Córas Trio from Belfast who launch their debut album of experimental jazz and traditional music this week, and DJs Time of the Month, Efa O’Neill and Elaine Howley.
Commenting on the line-up, Ó Sé says:
It’s when we deviate that the most exciting things happen. We have Landless in Ormston House and that will be a special gig. Or say an act like Junk Drawer. We’ve known them since 2017 or 2018 when we first started running shows, before Féile na Gréine. So it’s nice when things come full circle like that.
Tickets are available at a nominal charge or free. Further booking details, along with the full festival schedule, will be announced in the coming weeks.
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Published on 30 July 2024
Shannon McNamee is Assistant Editor of the Journal of Music.