Festival Guide 2026
The year is 2026 and we are at it again. Our festival weekend is finally here. Our small team has been working hard behind the scenes, programming, scheduling, working with venues and getting every little detail ready for you all. This list is for anyone who might not be familiar with the festival or Limerick City. Limerick is a compact, easily walkable city. All venues are typically within five or ten minutes (or less) walk from one another. So get planning and we’ll see you there.
How to Get to Limerick
Limerick is an easily walkable city, with most venues being less than a five-minute walk from one another. If traveling to Limerick we would recommend that you choose an environmentally conscious mode of travel such as bus or train. Trains and buses arrive into the centre of the city, only a few minutes walk from our venues.
By Bus
Bus Éireann provides frequent services to and from all Ireland's major cities. For further information and to buy your tickets please visit Bus Éireann.
By Train
Limerick is easily accessible via rail links, with frequent services from Dublin, Cork and Galway. For further information and to buy your tickets please visit Irish Rail (check out our live video of Artie Silver performing at Limerick Junction).
STARLING
STARLING has changed venue since last year. You can find the venue behind large red gates on Anne Street, just around the corner from Lumen Street Theatre (V94 WY22).
Accessibility
We want to maximise accessibility for everyone where possible, though working with existing venues and infrastructure has limitations. Some of our pre-existing venues have limited accessibility, and require the use of stairs; including Pharmacia, The Record Room, Klaud9.
A wheelchair accessible portaloo will be available during The Commercial Street Party on Catherine Street on Saturday.
If you would like any further information on accessibility at our festival, please reach out to us on our email feilenagreinelk@gmail.com.
Safety
If something or someone makes you feel uncomfortable, no matter how minor it seems, speak to any of our team members, they will be wearing high-visibility vests. We will work with you so it doesn't have to ruin your experience.
Inclusivity
Many of the participating venues will have gender-inclusive toilets, keep an eye out for signage. Choose and use the loo that feels right to you.
We ask that everyone respect the privacy of others. Gender discrimination has no place here.
Friday
Áine O'Dwyer "Weather Mass"
Redemptorist Church / 8pm - 9pm
We launch Féile Na Gréine 2026 with a newly commissioned piece from multi-disciplinary artist, composer/performer Áine O'Dwyer.
'Weather Mass' is a site-responsive, site-specific performance which incorporates pipe organ, voice, choreographed dance and a collage of found music manuscript from the church archives. The performance is inspired by both the weather and acousmatic listening.
Áine O'Dwyer will be accompanied by dance artists Aoibhinn O’Dea, Alexandra Vostokova, Roberta Ceginskaite, and Grace Cuny.
(SOLD OUT) Ana Palindrome / Slouch / Stella and the Dreaming / Donal Dineen
Pharmacia Upstairs / 9:00pm - 2:00am
Ana Palindrome - A bridge between the country's celebrated traditional avant-folk revival and its experimental electronic landscape.
Slouch - Alternative, neo-psych, and occasionally proggy, fuzzy slacker rock.
Stella and the Dreaming - From behind a garage door somewhere, surrounded by keys changing and distorted vocals - this is the Dreaming.
Donal Dineen - Legendary radio presenter, photographer, filmmaker... and tune selector.
Pharmacia Downstairs / 11:00pm - 1:00am
Óir - Dublin-based DJ and radio host with a sound rooted in late-90s and early-00s house.
Saturday
Mother of Pearl / Leevy / Cara Coyle / Commissions
Treaty City Brewery Street Party / 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Mother of Pearl - Limerick-based post hardcore/shoegaze act.
Leevy - Grown from the boggy outcrop of the Muskerry Gaeltacht, Leevy are finding beauty and madness in the harshest corners of the Irish psyche.
Cara Coyle - Expect to be captured by Cara's storytelling & hypnotic vocals while being drawn into a world of singing angels & turbulent seas where she explores themes of love, loss, fear and hope.
Commissions - Harnessing their haywire hardware instruments, Commissions weave the weird into the danceable and the danceable into the weird.
Arabú / KiiKO / girlfriend. / Godwin & God Knows
The Commercial Street Party / 3:30pm - 7:30pm
Arabú - A five-piece indie rock band from Dublin, that blend folk rock with sharp, fuzz laden guitars and driving rhythm section reminiscent of 90s alt-rock acts.
KiiKO - An electronic pop collaboration between Tokyo-born DJ Emmy Shigeta, and Irish producer John McDowell, including David Rogers on drums.
girlfriend. - Experimental & alternative post-hardcore band based between Dublin and Limerick.
Godwin & God Knows - Limerick rapper and producer/DJ brothers performing tracks from their new Heihachi Riddim EP.
Cormorant Tree Oh / Moldboy
Klaud9 / 4:00pm and 6:00pm
Cormorant Tree Oh - Mary Keane, alias Cormorant Tree Oh, is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician from Ireland, taking inspiration from folk, psychedelia, horror soundtracks and nature field recordings.
Moldboy - Songs from the gutter to the bog to the sky and back again.
Spooklet / Bitten Twice Collective
Wickham Way / 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Spooklet - A Franco-British electronic music producer, live performer, vocalist and dancer currently based in Dublin, Ireland.
Bitten Twice Collective - Experimental rave collective dedicated to promoting strange sounds and unconventional rhythms.
(SOLD OUT) Rún / Shark School / Kayleigh Noble / Shampain
Pharmacia Upstairs / 8:45pm - 2:00am
Rún - An experimental Irish trio that blends folk, synth, drone, noise, and heavy grooves into a dark, ethereal, and transcendent mix of long-form explorations and vignettes.
Shark School - All female abstract garage band based in Galway City, described as a sonic assault with more bite than a Great White’s dentures.
Kayleigh Noble - Irish electro-pop artist redefining the intersection of club culture and raw emotional storytelling, blending sultry R&B tones with euphoric dance energy.
Shampain - Techno experimentalist, DJ and producer with global acclaim for bringing the cinematic and club worlds together.
E the Artist (DJ Set)
Pharmacia Downstairs / 11:00pm - 1:00am
E the Artist - Inspired by AfroPunkism, E the Artist recontextualises contemporary black club genres into their loudest and most intense iterations.
Sunday
Dylan Kerr & Weston Olencki / Linda Buckley / Neil Ó Lochlainn's Tlú Lín
Ormston House / 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Dylan Kerr & Weston Olencki - 'with sharp bitter lines' is at its core a set of songs, mostly about loss, coal, and emigration, that trace the unruly tethers between Ireland and Appalachia. Written and performed by Berlin-based artists Dylan Kerr and Weston Olencki, it draws upon their shared interest in the spaces between experimental sound, multichannel synthesis, and vernacular musics. Drawing on the work of folklorists Dolores Keane and Jean Ritchie, 'with sharp bitter lines' uses digital string synthesis, voice, an Appalachian mountain dulcimer and a talkbox to reimagine the future lineages of the ballad tradition.
Linda Buckley - From the words of Iggy Pop himself “beautiful music – here is somebody really special”.
Neil Ó Lochlainn's Tlú Lín - Tlú Lín (Ripple) is the latest project from Clare musician and composer Neil Ó Lochlainn. The work is based on new arrangements of songs associated with singers from the Iorras Aithneach area of South Conamara, delicately balancing composed and improvised passages arranged for this acclaimed ensemble of musicians.
DATQIDEXCEL / Rua Rí / Unbelievable Lake / Eliza
Treaty City Brewery Street Party / 1:00pm - 5:00pm
DATQIDEXCEL - 20 year old Rapper from Limerick. DATQIDEXCEL arrives at Féile Na Gréine fresh off the release of his debut mixtape “The Qid From South”.
Rua Rí - The presence of the sea is ever felt for Cobh-born singer-songwriter Rua Rí. It is rare that the sea does not bleed into the soft and serene folk music he has become known for, his work echoing tradition while forging a path that feels wholly his own
Unbelievable Lake - Psychedelic doom trio based in Belfast, originally from rural South Derry.
Eliza - Vinyl DJ. Expect a diverse range of records from electro, techno, wave, EBM and experimental.
August Kirwin / Dan Callanan & Jonathan Deasy / Seán Being "Car Musick"
STARLING / 4:00pm - 7:00pm
August Kirwin - A traditional Irish dancer and céilí caller from Edmonton, Canada. Building on training in competitive Irish dance, contemporary Irish dance, and sean nós, their practice is about rhythm, pleasure, connection and body politics.
Dan Callanan & Jonathan Deasy - 'Magnificent Humanity' will be a piece of performance art warping and weaving the talents of Jonathan Deasy and Liadán Scott-Keogh through a physical, sonic and perhaps spiritual exploration of Irish identity, the nature of labour and the endurance of community against the smoking backdrop of a world in flames.
Seán Being "Car Musick" - A performance for cars and drivers. A MIDI horn composition is tuned to the pitches of the horns of three cars and played back through their soundsystems as a multichannel track. On a conductor’s cue, the drivers join in with their horns, creating dense, loud, harmonic clusters.
Ian Nyquist / Lemoncello / Teresa Riemann / Nashpaints
Record Room @ The Commercial / 4:30pm - 9:00pm
Ian Nyquist - Musician and sound artist whose most recent work centres on the re-contextualising of traditional material.
Lemoncello - Displaying folk-soaked roots and confidently exploring intricate new shapes, Lemoncello’s body of work is equally familiar and confronting, driven by the palpable chemistry of a long-term friendship.
Teresa Riemann - A curious mind that seeks the holes in the ground, windows to another world.
Nashpaints - Dublin-based artist makez music in a broad variety of styles linked by a love of heavy atmospheres.
(SOLD OUT) Artie Silver / Mega Bog / Mark + Luke / 2muchbootyinthebooth
Pharmacia Upstairs / 8:45pm - 2:00am
Artie Silver - In the early 1980s, Artie Silver was everywhere. His face was on every bus in town. On April 5th, 1983, his life was turned upside down when he returned to his home from his tour a day early to surprise his wife, Sharon, only to find her in bed with his then business manager, Carl Weathers. With his personal life and finances in tatters, he tried to continue performing but was clearly broken and spent much of the concerts crying and whimpering. Fans lost interest in him and he evaporated from the public eye for much of the 90s and 2000s. Now he has begun to rebuild his career singing songs of the betrayal and loneliness that's riddles the world of business.
Mega Bog - Dizzying fusion of lounge, pop and bouncing rocks under poetic tantrums of love gone all the way wrong. Listen closer.
Mark + Luke - Dublin-based, math-rock, three-piece.
2muchbootyinthebooth - A bad workman blames his tools, but 2muchbootyinthebooth will set the room on fire with a JBL and an aux.
emocirclejerk
Pharmacia Downstairs / 11:00pm - 1:00am
emocirclejerk - Limerick-based dj taking inspiration from disco, 90s house and the detroit techno scene.
Merch
This year we have t-shirts, longsleeve shirts, tote bags, scarves, pins, and postcards available, designed by our very own Rachael Drennan.
Merch will be on sale throughout the weekend from Lucky Lane, as well as from our volunteers at different venues (see merch timetable).
Merch Timetable
FRIDAY
Lucky Lane: 11am - 5pm
Pharmacia: 8pm - 11pm
SATURDAY
Lucky Lane: 10am - 5pm
Treaty City Brewery: 12pm - 3pm
Catherine Street: 3.30pm - 5.30pm
Pharmacia: 8pm - 10pm
SUNDAY
Lucky Lane: 12pm - 5pm
Treaty City Brewery: 1pm - 4pm
Starling (Anne Street): 4pm - 7pm
Pharmacia: 8pm - 11pm
Food
It is going to be a busy weekend so make sure you take time to eat some of the delicious food that Limerick has to offer
Rift - Lunch
A fantastic cafe in the heart of the city, and a sponsor of this festival. Great food, great coffee, what else could you ask for?
Green Acres - Lunch
Grab a toastie in the middle of the bustling Milk Market, you can thank me later!
Klaud9 - Coffee
A cosy cafe on Thomas Street. Great coffee, great vibes
Wickham Way Market - Lunch
Great spot with lots of stalls with tacos, curries and veggie-friendly options
Chicken Hut - Fried Chicken
A Limerick staple, it would be criminal to omit Chicken Hut from this list. Don’t forget to try their gravy
West Lake Asian Street Food
Perfect spot for a 3 in 1, or spice bag
Taikichi - Japanese
Great sushi, great ramen, great spot
Quick Pick (now called 24/7 Shop)
Limerick’s only 24-hour deli. Try the hash brown roll
Other things to do
Steamboat Records
A record store on Limerick's waterfront, a great spot to browse records and relax
Lucky Lane
A funky vintage store with clothes, books, comics and a surprising amount of occult matierals
Curiosity Shop
You'll leave with more questions than answers
Three Bridges Walk
A popular scenic walk along the River Shannon
People’s Park
Great spot to chill
Milk Market
Long-standing market with food, vintage shops and general oddities
