Two nights at Cork’s Virgin Media Park with Aaron Rowe in support, plus Belsonic in Belfast, with presale on Wednesday October 14th and general sale on Friday October 16th.
Dermot Kennedy has announced three outdoor headline shows in Ireland for June 2027. He plays Cork’s Virgin Media Park on Wednesday June 23rd and Thursday June 24th, with Aaron Rowe in support, and Belsonic in Belfast on Saturday June 26th. They’ll be his first full-band shows in either city in more than five years.
Dermot Kennedy Irish dates, June 2027
- Wednesday June 23rd – Virgin Media Park, Cork.
- Thursday June 24th – Virgin Media Park, Cork.
- Saturday June 26th – Belsonic, Belfast.
Tickets
- Presale for all three shows starts at 10am on Wednesday October 14th, and fans signed up to Dermot’s mailing list can register for it here.
- General sale starts at 10am on Friday October 16th.
- Cork tickets are €76.25 and €86.25 via Ticketmaster.ie, subject to a 12.5% service charge per ticket (max €10.50), and the shows are subject to licence.
The announcement follows a big year for Kennedy. His third studio album, The Weight of the Woods, went to number one in the UK and Ireland, making him the first Irish solo artist to top the UK chart with his first three studio albums. It was followed by arena tours of the UK and Europe, two sold-out nights at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium and a full North American tour that’s still under way.
The album was largely written and recorded in a studio down the road from his home in rural Ireland with close collaborator Gabe Simon, whose credits include Noah Kahan and Lana Del Rey, with a spell in Nashville too. Kennedy calls it “a beautiful homegrown thing with Irish instruments and an Irish story”. An extended edition is out now, adding live favourite ‘Stockholm’ alongside acoustic versions of ‘Turnstile’ and ‘Funeral’.
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