Culture Night takes place on Friday September 19th, and offers a free programme of cultural events across music, dance, galleries, exhibitions, museums, painting and art.
In terms of music this year, here are some overview highlights:
- Culture Night ambassador Farah Elle, GrooveLine @ Wood Quay Amphitheatre
- Zeztra, Calum Agnew, Lisa Murray and Earthmover @ Meeting House Square
- City Sounds: DJs Shrem and DJ Paddy Fabulous @ Central Plaza
- Echo Exchange: EMA, Puzzy Wrangler, RHYTHMICK b2b Rían @ Capel Street
- Kynsy, Poser, DJ Nialler9 & more @ Bolands Mills – an adults only fully licensed event, across two-stages.
- The Italian Institute of Culture hosts a How Italo Disco Made Us Dance workshop.
- Alliance Française Dublin present an evening filled with French music at their new Madeleine Café, featuring a performance by the French duo La Sérénade du Pavé and DJ Chach Des Wé.
- The Irish Traditional Music Archive will host a series of recitals by some of the country’s top traditional musicians
- The Dublin Unitarian Church will host the Classical Musicians Network.
- Fr. Collins Park will play host to Opera in the Open, an outdoor concert gala.
- The Chester Beatty will feature an evening with emerging singer-songwriter Theo Fitzgibbon
- Block. at Liberty Lane is promising electronic music well into the early hours.
Culture Night Dublin’s late-night music trail Nocturnal Beats will return this Culture Night, following its debut last year. The multi-venue music event is supported by Dublin City Council’s Night-Time Advisor, Ray O’Donoghue, and will see numerous Dublin clubs open their dance floors for free on the night, with participating venues to be revealed in the coming weeks.
The 20th edition of Culture Night Dublin takes place Friday September 19th from 4pm until late. See culturenight.ie/Dublin for full listings.

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 co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.