Pillow Queens
Following the release of the brand new album ‘Name Your Sorrow’, Pillow Queens announce their return to Kilkenny's Set Theatre
James Vincent McMorrow
Irish singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow releases his seventh studio album, Wide Open, Horses
James Vincent McMorrow
Irish singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow releases his seventh studio album, Wide Open, Horses
Villagers
Following the kaleidoscopic adventure of Villagers’ fifth album Fever Dreams, Conor O’Brien returns with the intimate inventory that he has named That Golden Time
Muireann Bradley
Muireann Bradley is a 17 year old folk and blues guitarist and singer from Donegal. She specializes in performing acoustic fingerpicking country, piedmont, and ragtime blues styles from the 1920s, 30s and 40s as well as later folk, country and Americana
The Scratch
The Scratch are a band that sound like no one else you’ve ever heard before
The Scratch
The Scratch are a band that sound like no one else you’ve ever heard before
The Stunning
As part of Set Theatre's 15th birthday celebrations The Stunning will play two special performances over two nights
The Stunning
As part of Set Theatre's 15th birthday celebrations The Stunning will play two special performances over two nights
Damien Dempsey
Damien Dempsey returns after 7 years with his new double album "Hold Your Joy"
Damien Dempsey
Damien Dempsey returns after 7 years with his new double album "Hold Your Joy"
Susan O'Neill
A songwriter of hidden depths, with a timeless voice that is equal parts balm and blowtorch, Susan O’Neill is audacity personified, a free spirit, a real performer
Kingfishr
Part of the newest generation of Irish contemporaries, Kingfishr’s grand, atmospheric tones are married with their propensity for catchy melodies
Kingfishr
Part of the newest generation of Irish contemporaries, Kingfishr’s grand, atmospheric tones are married with their propensity for catchy melodies
Annika Kilkenny
Annika Kilkenny is a singer-songwriter and musician who has been introducing herself to the world through a series of heartfelt, captivating songs inspired by musicians such as Carole King, Olivia Dean and Elton John
John Cooper Clarke
Literary phenomenon John Cooper Clarke known as the ‘Godfather of Punk Poetry' and the original people’s poet has just announced a headline show in Set Theatre Kilkenny on Saturday 18 May 2024
Adrianne Lenker
Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker announces a very special solo concert in Kilkenny’s St. Canice’s Cathedral
support from Ellie O'Neill
Damien Dempsey
Damien Dempsey is a rare gem of an artist. An ex-boxer with the soul of a poet, whose heroes and influences are as diverse as Christy Moore, Shane MacGowan, Luke Kelly and Bob Marley
Amble
Amble are a 3 piece ensemble of songwriters from the Midlands and West of Ireland formed over a mutual grá for the music they create
David Keenan
This concert will be an amalgamation of David Keenan’s full band show plus very special guest Evanne Kilgallon who’ll perform an extract from her one woman play “Jester's Privilege” as support
John Francis Flynn
JFF’s songs float in a surreal space between the past and the present, the analog and the digital, between love and tragedy
Something Happens
Legends of the late eighties Irish music scene, Something Happens were one of the Irish bands of the period who trail-blazed a commercial path across the country and beyond
The Scratch
The Scratch are a four-piece band that sound like no one else you’ve ever heard before. Like all the great progressive musicians, they turn music on its head and pour their hearts and souls into their art to forge something original and new.
The Mary Wallopers
The Mary Wallopers are revitalising Irish trad for a new generation with rowdy reinterpretations of hand-me-down odes to sex, devilry and drink
The Undertones
The Undertones play Set Theatre Kilkenny to celebrate 45 years of Teenage Kicks
support from The Donnys
Huun Huur Tu
Huun Huur Tu, the legendary Throat Singing and world music group, is celebrating an impressive milestone - 30 years since the band's inception
Kojaque
Nothing lasts. Childhood, creative cycles, intentions, relationships, plans, dispositions, moods, gaffs, direction. In this space between, Kojaque returns with an album that contends with the past, and embarks upon a new future
Jerron Paxton
Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton has earned a reputation for transporting audiences back to the 1920's and making them wish they could stay there
Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band
Josh Ritter and band will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Josh’s 2003 breakthrough record, Hello Starling, with a very limited European headline tour, playing the album in full (plus more music)
Dustin O'Halloran
Dustin O'Halloran is an American pianist and composer, and is a member of the band A Winged Victory For The Sullen
support from Margaret Hermant (Echo Collective)
Lisa O'Neill
Long since noted as one of the most evocative singers and writers in contemporary Irish music, All of This Is Chance is a collection of new work that takes Lisa’s voice to greater heights
support from Seamus Fogarty
Jenny Greene
Jenny Greene, one of Ireland's most successful DJs, plays Langton’s Ballroom Kilkenny
The Lost Brothers
Oisin Leech and Mark McCausland of The Lost Brothers play Kilkenny's Set Theatre
Lisa Hannigan
Lisa Hannigan will be joined onstage by 3 backing vocalists and a cellist for a beautifully intimate fully seated show
Le Boom
Le Boom’s music traces the highs and lows of a summer of house parties - cans in hands, buzzing around a bluetooth speaker with your favourite people.
49th & Main
Kilkenny heroes '49th & Main' return for a no holds barred full capacity throwdown over the Festive Season
Glen Hansard
Support is by the wonderful Nicolai Dungar, a Swedish folk singer that has been a friend of Glen for many years
Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard is very much looking forward to getting back to the stage where he is most at home - to introduce some new songs and get reacquainted with some old musical friends from his extensive back catalogue
The Stunning
During the early nineties, the biggest Irish band in the world was U2 but in Ireland it was The Stunning. Their debut album, ‘Paradise In The Picturehouse’ spent five weeks at number one and became one of the most-loved Irish albums of all time.
Soda Blonde
We're delighted to announce the return of our friends, and firm favourites, Soda Blonde
The Mary Wallopers
With their debut album on the way in October and a massive tour of Ireland/UK and Europe, The Mary Wallopers are taking their unique and joyous vision of the historic music of their home country out into the world.