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Lingo Festival announce Sage Francis & Blindboy Boatclub for October
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Lingo Festival announce Sage Francis & Blindboy Boatclub for October

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Thursday, September 1, 2016

The spoken word Lingo Festival returns in October 21 to 23 and they’ve announced their first headliners for this year.

Rapper Sage Francis, Rubberbandits’ Blindboy Boatclub , Palestinian spoken word artist Rafeef Ziadeh and 2016 Lingo Poet Laureate Sarah Clancy are lined up to play.

Sage Francis plays a show at the Workman’s Club on October 22nd while Sunday night October 23rd will see Blindboy Boatclub host a madcap panel of guests and performers around the theme of socially engaged art. More details in coming weeks.

Early bird weekend passes are on sale now from Eventbrite priced €56.50.

"You Can't Win" EPIC BEARD MEN [Sage Francis + B. Dolan, ext video]

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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the cohost of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, event curator and producer of gigs, parties & events.