The Irish folk band play Whelan’s, the Workman’s Club and the Grand Social from December 12th to 14th, after three nights at Belfast’s Empire Music Hall, with Dublin tickets from €33.65 on sale Wednesday at 10am.
Beoga have announced a three-night Dublin residency for December, presented by Aiken Promotions, with a different special guest each night. Aldoc joins them at Whelan’s on Saturday December 12th, Rua Rí at the Workman’s Club on Sunday December 13th, and Maykay at the Grand Social on Monday December 14th. Tickets from €33.65 go on sale on Wednesday October 7th at 10am via Ticketmaster.ie and beogamusic.com.
Before that, the five-piece play three nights at Belfast’s Empire Music Hall, on Wednesday December 2nd, Friday December 4th and Sunday December 6th, with tickets via Ticketmaster.ie.
Beoga live dates
- Wednesday December 2nd – Empire Music Hall, Belfast.
- Friday December 4th – Empire Music Hall, Belfast.
- Sunday December 6th – Empire Music Hall, Belfast.
- Saturday December 12th – Whelan’s, Dublin, with Aldoc.
- Sunday December 13th – The Workman’s Club, Dublin, with Rua Rí.
- Monday December 14th – The Grand Social, Dublin, with Maykay.
The shows come at a notable moment for the band. In September, Beoga left Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour after Macklemore was removed from it, with the band saying that playing venues that silence anyone advocating for a Free Palestine “is simply not an option” for them. They are founding members of Irish Artists for Palestine, and say the response from fans and the wider music community has been an outpouring of support. These home-turf Belfast dates, and the Dublin residency, promise to be a celebration of the band and the people who back them.
Their latest release, Phases, arrived in the middle of all that. After several years working on their own individual projects, the band are back together and energised as a five-piece, and the album revisits their traditional roots and original sound while exploring new ground in production and instrumentation. “We are being more creative than we’ve ever been,” says Murray, with Niamh Dunne calling the record a reflection of who the band are after two decades of influences.
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Formed in the north of Ireland, Beoga have spent more than 20 years bringing a restless approach to traditional music to audiences around the world. Their career highlights include a Grammy nomination for The Incident and their work with Ed Sheeran on ÷, which led to a record-breaking Irish stadium tour in 2018 and, most recently, the 2026 Loop Tour. The Wall Street Journal once called them “the most exciting new traditional band to emerge from Ireland this century”, and their 2020 mini album Carousel took them into pop-folk territory with producer Jonny Coffer and guests including Foy Vance, Ryan McMullan, Niall McCabe, Lissie and Devin Dawson. More recently they’ve sold out headline tours of the US, Australia and New Zealand, and played Port Fairy Folk Festival, WOMADelaide and Perth Festival.
Tickets and more at beogamusic.com.
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.
