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Cork’s Quiet Lights festival announces lineup with Lisa O’Neill, Anna Mieke, Emma Langford, Maija Sofia & more

Cork festival Quiet Lights has announced its lineup for this year – to take place from November 18th to 21st.

The festival originally launched in 2018 and focuses on folk and trad artists. This year’s lineup will feature the following musicians and singers playing around “Cork city’s nooks, crannies, chapels, and bars”:

As the hush of autumn falls, Islander are delighted to announce the fourth iteration of their winter festival, Quiet Lights, happening in various venues across Cork city, 18th – 21st November 2021.


  • Lisa O’Neill
  • The Lost Brothers
  • Anna Mieke
  • Ichiko Aoba
  • Junior Brother
  • Lemoncello
  • Niamh Regan
  • Maija Sofia
  • Brigid Mae Power
  • Joshua Burnside
  • Caomhín Ó Raghallaigh
  • Kate Ellis & Caimin Gilmore
  • Trá Phádín
  • Cormac McCarthy & Nell Ní Chríonín
  • Emma Langford
  • Ailbhe Reddy
  • Molly O’Mahony
  • Rachael Lavelle
  • Participant
  • Varo
  • Sam Clague
  •  and more to be announced.

Venues include The Everyman, Triskel Christchurch, Coughlan’s Live, Crane Lane, Live at St Luke’s, and Winthrop Avenue.

“After losing out on hosting Quiet Lights by mere days due to renewed restrictions last year, we are excited (and a little nervous) to be bringing our little festival back to Cork this year. We’re very proud of our line-up of almost exclusively Irish-based talent as travel restrictions continue, but we do have Ichiko Aoba coming on tour from Japan, and we have a first for Quiet Lights – a new commission – with Cormac McCarthy writing for Nell Ní Chróinín and strings. We think there’s something for everyone and looking forward to seeing you at a show”

Festival Director Jonathan Pearson

Tickets are on sale now at quietlights.net


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