Dundalk is hosting Bold Frontiers, an urban festival celebrating music, arts, and contemporary culture from October 10th to 12th.
Taking inspiration from like-minded city and town festivals, Bold Frontiers features a weekend of live music across venues including The Spirit Store, Mo Chara, Toales, Dundalk Gaol, St Nicholas Church, and An Táin Arts Centre.
Installations, late-night events and art is also lined up.
The lineup features some of the best of Irish alternative music at the moment with the following playing across the weekend include a hometown show for Just Mustard ahead of a new album, the two Elaines Howley and Malone, a DJ set from Fontaines D.C., Fermanagh’s finest composer Róis, the lgendary Irish electronic composer Roger Doyle, Cork alternative band The Altered Hours, contemporary folkie John Francis Flynn and a Live Score with Rory Friers (And So I Watch You From Afar) of Battleship Potemkin.
Bold Frontiers lineup
- The Altered Hours
- Battleship Potemkin: Live Score with Rory Friers (And So I Watch You From Afar)
- Chop!
- Elaine Howley
- Elaine Malone
- FONTAINES DC DJs
- John Francis Flynn
- Just Mustard
- Milkweed
- Roger Doyle
- Róis
- Tessio
- Trad Rave
More to be announced soon…
“Bold Frontiers is about exploring between genres, between spaces, and between communities. We want to create a festival that feels alive in the streets and venues of Dundalk, where audiences can stumble upon something unexpected and leave with a sense of having been part of something unique and unrepeatable.”
Weekend tickets cost from €90.
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.
