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…