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Bold Frontiers brings John Francis Flynn, Fontaines D.C. DJs, Altered Hours, Just Mustard, Róis and more to Dundalk for festival weekender

Just Mustard. Photo: Kate Lawlor Just Mustard. Photo: Kate Lawlor
JUST MUSTARD. Photo: Kate Lawlor

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…

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“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.

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