• Sharon Shannon
  • Mary Black
  • Donal Lunny & Paddy Glackin
  • Pauline Scanlon
  • Padraig Rynne's Notify
  • Leonard Barry
  • Conor Byrne
  • Andy Morrow
  • Edel Fox
  • Seo Linn
  • Sweeney's Men
  • Ronan O'Snodaigh
  • Lumiere
  • Aengus Hackett
  • Sanem Halfa
  • John Spillane
  • At First Light
  • Away With The Fairies
  • The Steve Cooney Trio
  • Jape
  • Máire Breatnach
  • Peter Murphy
  • Leonard Barry

Festival Details

The 3rd annual TradFest Kilkenny returns to Kilkenny for St. Patricks Weekend.

On Mother’s Day, the Festival will host an evening of music and dining with Lumiere in Kilkenny’s award winning restaurant Anocht.

The Bulmers Music Trail is back with a bang this year and will feature over 70 free gigs in pubs across the city for the four days. Highlights from the TradTrail include John Spillane, At First Light, Away with the Fairies, The Steve Cooney Trio and Seo Linn.

Other events include Soundings: Holy Trinity where broadcasterDylan Haskins and acclaimed singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan will be joined by a Holy Trinity of guests from different walks of Irish life. Each guest will present three stories to motivate, to shock and to humour. Each section is bridged with live performances of songs on those same themes from the musical guests. This event will take place in the stunning surrounds of the historic & exquisite Long Gallery in Kilkenny Castle for an afternoon of story and song. A children’s singing and animation workshop with Sean McCarron from Carton Saloon and Nell Ni Chroinin, a delightful vintage fairground on the Parade, a whole host of workshops including flute, fiddle and concertina, adrumming circle and ceilis from the Annaly Ceili Band and the Johnny Reidy Ceili Band.

Read the full schedule programme brochure

Ticket Selection

Variety of Shows

Sharon Shannon at Kilkenny Castle Park (17th March)

€Free

Lumiere Dinner + Concert at Anocht Restaurant (15th March)

€45

Soundings - Holy Trinity at Long Gallery, Kilkenny Castle (15th March)

€15

Culture Vulture at Hole In The Wall (14th March)

€10

Variety of Shows

Seo Linn at Workhouse Square, Macdongh Junction

€Free

Aengus Hackett & Sanem Kalfa at Cleere's Theatre (15th March)

€10

Donal Lunny & Paddy Glackin with Pauline Scanlon & Padraig Rynne's Notify at SET Theatre (16th March)

€20

Sweeney's Men at Watergate Theatre (15th March)

€18

Variety of Shows

Mary Black at Langton's Ballroom

€31.50

Ronan O'Snodaigh at Billy Byrnes (15th March)

€10

Edel Fox and Neil Byrne at Set Theatre (15th March)

€12