Festival Details

Following on from the sweet success of 2018’s festival, Westival 2019 (Westport Music & Arts Festival) returns for six days of merriment from Wednesday 23^rd to Bank Holiday Monday 28^th October. An electrifying mix of entertainment and art for all tastes are on the bill, with 62 events on this year’s schedule including art installations and exhibitions, music, theatre and other live performances and audience participation events taking place in many venues and streets of the award-winning town of Westport.

Speaking of the 2019 festival, Westival Director Conor Wilson says “Last year’s festival enthralled over 5,000 people over the 6 days of Westival. We set the bar high in terms of the caliber of acts and artists that we brought together, this year we have focused on building on last year’s success by putting together a broad line-up that we hope will captivate the interest of both local and visitor alike”

Westival 2019

Paul Noonan at A Night in the Key of 8 at the Olympia Theatre. Photo by Owen Humphreys www.owenhumphreys.com

Music

³  Paul Noonan (Bell X1) and Maria Kelly

³  Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

³  Le Boom

³  Sing Along Social

³  ‘Shock and Awe’ Halloween Ball

³  The Mary Wallopers

³  Clew Bay Folk Club Westival Special

³  Crooked Trad

³  Matt Rowley

Arts, Literature and Photography

³  How to Square a Circle

³  Dracula Live

³  Dirty Circus

³  Camille Souter Retrospective

³  Norman Ackroyd

³  Brittle / Fragile

³  Diarmuid Delargy

³  Shooting the Mafia

Workshops 

³  Drag and Draw

³  Stinging Fly Seminar

³  Art Attack Paint Dance

³  En Plein Air

Free Family Fun

³  Behind the Scenes at the Harry Potter Movies

³  SPIT, one-woman circus street show

³  The Travelling Bladunk

³  The Carnival of Adolescent Antics

³  Faerie Tailor’s Faerie Trail

³  Morbid & Sons

³  Westival Arts in Education Programme

Tickets to all events available from westival.ie