Féile Na Gréine 2025 will celebrate emerging and experimental music from August 15-17

Féile Na Gréine 2025 will celebrate emerging and experimental music from August 15-17. Photos: Izabela Szczutkowska

Féile Na Gréine announce the lineup for the 2025 edition of the festival running from August 15-17

Féile Na Gréine is back and announces the lineup for the 2025 edition of the festival, running from August 15-17.

This celebration of emerging and experimental music will take audiences on a three-day musical trail through Limerick City, stopping at an array of venues, from arts spaces and underground clubs, to craft breweries and street parties.

This year’s eclectic lineup includes Maria Somerville, with her Connemara-inspired shoegaze, 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. With over 30 scheduled events across 9 venues, Féile Na Gréine is a celebration of everything DIY in Irish independent music.

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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.

The festival’s organisers have curated this year’s lineup to signal to the rest of the country the vibrant and electric talent that Ireland’s underground music scene has to offer. Festival goers are sure to encounter something completely out of the ordinary.

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.