Taking place across two days that Christmas weekend from 11am- 7pm, Merchy Christmas is a market where you can buy merch and records (and CDs?) from Irish music artists directly from the artists and bands themselves.
In the spirit of the season, admission is free but a suggested donation of €6,
split between Dublin Simon Community & The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) is strongly encouraged.
Conor Cusack (Saint Sister / Morgana / Divil) and Saint Sister started the market with Keiron Black and the folks at The Grand Social during the lockdown of 2020 to raise much needed funds for artists and it’s been an annual thing since, with stalls, raffles, live performances and DJ sets across the weekend.
The first round of Artists who will be selling at Merchy this year are:
- Anamoe Drive
- Basht.
- BOLD LOVE
- Bon Voyage / Arveene
- Bricknasty
- Burglar
- Cable Boy
- COMMON THREADS
- Cruel Sister
- Curtisy
- Daithi (COMMON THREADS)
- Dani Larkin
- DIVIL
- Fizzy Orange
- Gilla Band
- House of Hibernia
- HousePlants
- Ispíní na hÉireann
- Junior Brother
- Louise Gaffney
- Madra Salach
- Maria Kelly
- May Kay
- Meltybrains? & The Line
- Morgana
- Nealo
- Overhead The Albatross
- Paddy Hanna
- Pebbledash
- Pillow Queens
- Really Good Time
- Saint Sister
- Scustin
- SexyTadhg
- Silverbacks
- Soda Blonde
- Sorcha Richardson
- The Null Club
- THUMPER
- Unique Freaks
- YARD
More to be announced.
Last year the event raised over €18,000 for the two charities. This year organisers are hoping to raise more to share between the two charity partners. A jumbo raffle will take place each day, with limited-edition merch kindly donated by the artists taking part across the weekend. There will also be incredible live performances across the weekend to be revealed closer to the time. We are thrilled to announce the first round of artists selling across the weekend with many more to come.
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.
