

AUGUST
7th - 9th



THIS YEAR'S AMAZING LINE UP




A FANTASTIC WEEKEND
OF LIVE MUSIC
August 7th - 9th 2026
ABOUT
The Howth Roots and Blues Festival is a music festival in Howth showcasing the best in Irish live roots and blues artists with a sprinkling of International artists. While many of the artists are blues based the festival caters for fans of Country, Rhythm and Blues, Bluegrass, Americanna, basically anything rootsy!! Over the years we have also had Latin, Ska, Afrobeat and Reggae at the festival.
This site is your programme/brochure. You can find out times and venues for shows on both the ARTIST, VENUE and the GIG-FINDER pages.
TRANSPORT
Irish Rail will be putting on late DARTS (trains) for the festival up to 12.30am.
CAMPER VANS
We are pleased to announce that Suttonians RFC will be providing Camper Van Parking for the duration of the Howth Roots & Blues festival. It is one stop away from Howth by Dart.
For bookings contact Emer on +353 (87) 981 6320 or clubadministrator(AT)suttoniansrfc.ie
DART
The DART will be extending their night time services for the festival untl 12.25am each night.
A MESSAGE FROM THE ORGANISER
"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
Everything you need to know about the festival is here on the website.
Additional enquiries by email to 'paul DOT byrne AT optophonic DOT com'
SPONSORED BY

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FESTIVAL FRIENDS
Our Print partner is Joe Kelly of GCP/Funky Cups
Our Backline Partner is Collie Goodall at SMD

















