Stage Lineups

Wednesday

  • DAVID KITT 9.30pm
  • Brand New Switcheroo 9.30pm in the bar

Thursday

  • I DRAW SLOW 9.45pm
  • Bronagh Keogh 8.45pm
  • Rake The Ashes 9.30pm - in the bar

Friday

  • THE PALE 10.30pm
  • Eilish & Sinead 9.15pm
  • Crooked Jack 9.30pm in the bar

SATURDAY

  • The Eskies 11.15pm
  • The Gabriel G Diges Band 9.00PM
  • Haiku 7.00pm
  • The Craic Addicts 5.00pm
  • Seodín. 9.30pm in the bar

SUNDAY

  • PADDY CASEY 9.30pm
  • Dysania 7.30pm
  • Wally Paige Band 5.30pm
  • Lee Meehan & Hugh Buckley 3.30pm

Festival Details

The festival is a worthy hat-tip to days long gone, when fishermen would come ashore in Bray from time spent on the Irish Sea.

First stop, The Harbour Bar.

Here they’d have a cup of Bovril to warm themselves up – before settling into a night drinking porter, singing and playing banjos, guitars, bodhráns, and mandolins.

Paul O’Toole Snr. continued the tradition in later years when short winter days were ended in the bar with a bit of banjo playing, some steaming cups of hot Bovril and a plateful of cheese and crackers.

And so the tradition continues with music, a bit of craic and a mug of the black stuff at the Banjo & Bovril Festival.

This year we have a music line-up that’s as anticipated as the first mouthful savoured by the fishermen themselves…