

Howth
Roots & Blues
FEstival

A FANTASTIC WEEKEND
OF LIVE MUSIC
August 11th - 13th 2023
The Howth Roots and Blues Festival is a music festival in Howth showcasing the best in Irish live roots and blues artists. While many of the artists are blues based the festival caters for fans of Country, Rhythm and Blues, Bluegrass, Americanna, Latin and reggae. Basically anything rootsy!. This site is your programme/brochure. You can find out times and venues for shows on both the ARTIST page and the GIG-FINDER page.
"I hope you all discover a great band or artist at this festival that you'd love to go and hear again or check them out online. And if you do then the festival has achieved it's goal. Ireland is full of great live bands and this is a way of hearing lots of them over a day or a weekend." Paul Byrne
THIS YEARS LINE UP
Dom Martin and Band
Mary Stokes Band Rob Strong
Grainne Duffy Band
Dublin Blues Cartel ft Mick Pyro
Square Pegs Clara Rose Parchman Farm
Susan Tomelty Seafoam Green Delta Dogs Mike Brookfield The Rebel Souls PointBreak The Remedy Club
Havana Roots Dubh Lee The Flying Monkeys
Colm Skwirbat Band See See Riders Pete Cummins
The Mafia Cats Paddy Smith Band Mick Daley Neon River Dermot Byrne Barefoot Magicians Paul Sherry
Carlos Herrero Mr. Castle Frank Francone
The Blue Light Smugglers The Legends of Country music
The Outsiders RoscÓ Flanagan The Festival Rootenanny
PLUS A candlelit CONCERT WITH
Jack O’Rourke
In St. Mary’s Church