The Limerick festival Féile Na Gréine platforms emerging and experimental music and has announced the lineup playing across three days this August.
Taking place from 15th to 17th August, Féile Na Gréine is a music-trail style journey through Limerick city, taking in different types of venues from music spaces to arts venues to underground clubs, craft breweries and street parties.
The full lineup has just been announced and features Connemara-inspired shoegaze artist Maria Somerville, experimental folk songwriter Joshua Burnside, New Zealand dream-pop trio Womb, and live techno from Zkellies, the new collaborative project from Andy Connolly (FKA Naive Ted), Dan Walsh, and Bill Karnation.
Also featured are Nialler9 favs Skinner, pot-pot, Martian Subculture, Throwing Shapes, Vaticanjail, Louise Gaffney, Negro Impacto, Aisling O’Riordan and Dose.
There are over 30 scheduled events across 9 venues.
Launching the festival is a special performance of Amanda Feery’s NEST at the Redemptorist Church. A response to Éamon de Valera’s 1943 speech ‘On Language and the Irish Nation’, NEST is a meditation on the meaning of home, land, and belonging.
For this year’s Féile Na Gréine, STARLING returns with another exciting lineup of experimental artists and performers – featuring Michael Speers, Seth Frightening, Autism Controller and Osaro. These acts span the fields of songwriting and music, experimental sound, theatre and performance art. Ormston House will host performances from David Murphy & Ether Ensemble, and electroacoustic composer Harry Gorski-Brown.
Féile Na Gréine
Composed of musicians, designers, photographers, and other creative practitioners, Féile Na Gréine is a yearly music festival, and continues to build a national reputation for championing Ireland’s emerging musical talent. The organisation’s operations are guided by strong-held beliefs in DIY culture, grassroots connections and inclusivity within the arts. As Féile Na Gréine has grown, so has its creative output, which now includes filmmaking and publications, all of which embody a fierce DIY approach.
Féile Na Gréine is supported by the Arts Council Festival Investment scheme, as well as Limerick Arts through Limerick City and County Council.
To keep up to date, check out the website.
www.FeileLK.ie
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, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
