October Nights is an “all styles live music night happening in Ballina in Mayo on the October bank holiday weekend, on Saturday October 28th & Sunday October 29th.
After last year’s Mayo artist focus event with Seamus Fogarty, Brigid Mae Power, Uppbeat, this year’s weekender will feature an eclectic lineup featuring Galway rapper Celaviedmai, folk songwriter Peter Broderick performing from his new album on Erased Tapes – Give It To The Sky: Arthur Russell’s Tower of Meaning Expanded, Mayo harpist Alannah Thornburgh, the Clare “cosmic, folk-informed, jazz-tinged, post-pop” artist Siomha, Ballina DIY krauty-psychey-dancey-noisey-punky two-piece YOP, and the prolific Kerry via Wirral artist Laurie Shaw who spent a week in Ballina this past summer where he wrote an album to mark three hundred years since the formal establishment of the town of Ballina called The Neck Of The Woods.
Here’s how each night stacks up at Ballina Arts Centre.
Saturday October 28th:
Peter Broderick
Alannah Thornburgh
Laurie Shaw
Sunday October 29th:
Celaviedmai
Siomha
YOP
Tickets from €16 per night from: octobernights.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, 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.
