Inside is for huddling around the music – folk, trad, a little americana, slip-jigs, Delta blues chants, beardy men playing paradiddle on a piccolo snare, and the odd stray bit of electronica. Those fond of a jig may jig; those who just want to lean in closer to the smell of the mandolin-man can do so too. Dublin’s infamous Cobblestone Pub brings the very best of folk trad and roots music – along with that hallmark Mulligan Family hospitality – to Electric Picnic.
ISPÍNÍ NA HÉIREANN – MEGATRAD – CAOIMHÍN – CIARAN MORAN – KK LEWIS – BURNCHURCH – THE LABOURERS – SALTAIRE – AL BAKER – THE LEN COLLECTIVE – FADA – FRIENDS OF THE RELICS – HELLO LEN – ISPÍNÍ AGUS CÁIS – KETTLEBOILERS – LAURA JO – MÉABH & EVA- NÓINÍNÍ – SHRUNK JUMPER – THE LINES – THE SPUDGUNS – TRAD FOLKIN RAPS – TULUA
After dark, you’ll likely find Old Boy Meaney setting a match to the barrel-fires outside, and starting a bit of a song, and, inside, the best of Irish trad musicians drop in for a seisiún, anchored by a handful of players with a fondness for spontaneity.
THE COBBLESTONE SESSION – THE DUDLEY’S PUB SESSION
THE DARKEY KELLYS SESSION
Spike Island: Escape from all the bleeping noise back to a time when wonky-eyed neighbours chicken-danced across old floorboards.