Date: Friday 14 March to Monday 17 March 2025
Venue: Various city centre locations
Category: Music, St Patrick's

We've partnered with Belfast TradFest to deliver St Patrick’s Music Festival, as part the UNESCO City of Music’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations.
The festival programme includes a variety of indoor and outdoor traditional arts events. It will be a diverse, cross-cultural and cross-traditions celebration in honour of St Patrick.
Festival highlights include:
- Afro Celt Sound System
- McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle - RÓIS
- Máirtín O'Connor, Zoe O'Connor and Music Generation Monaghan/Cavan Cross-Border Folk Orchestra
- Cara Dillon 'Coming Home' - Piaras Ó Lorcáin and Jack Warnock
- Sets Céilí Concert - Blackwater Céilí Band and Cathleen Garland with sets called by Rónan Eastwood
- Celtic Psalms - Ursula Burns
- Outdoor Pipe Band Extravaganza
- St Patrick's Pilgrimage
- Festival Village at Cathedral Quarter
- Solo Highland Piping Competition
- Traditional Music Workshops
To buy tickets and read festival details, go to Belfast TradFest (link opens in new window).