Slow Sessions with Brendan McCreanor
Dates: 15th Mar - 30th Aug 2025
Time: 12.00pm
Cost: €5
For players of any instrument and at any level. A selection of easy and well known session tunes will all be played slowly so that people in the early stages of their playing or those coming back to playing music can have an opportunity to play together in a friendly, supportive and informal setting. More experienced players who wish to refine their techniques at a slower pace are also very welcome.
We also welcome listeners and singers.
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Droichead Arts Centre | Stockwell Street | Drogheda | Co. Louth
Theatre Club Spring Summer / 2025
7 FEB - 28 JUN | 7 plays for €95 (+ €1.00 fees)
Website url: https://www.droichead.com/show-detail/?id=873668797
Droichead Arts Centre is thrilled to announce its Theatre Club for Spring/Summer 2025, showcasing seven incredible plays, including an off-site visit to the Abbey Theatre. Now in its 14th season, the club offers audiences a chance to connect and discuss each performance. Seven amazing plays for only €95!
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Night Moves 2025 | Oisin Leech with support from Dotts O’Connor
Date: 02/05/2025
Time: 22.00
Cost: €15.00 (+ €1.00 fees)
Night Moves at Droichead returns this May curated by SJ McArdle, with our first late-night club transforming every corner of Droichead Arts Centre into a captivating space. Audiences will enjoy ambient music in our gallery, experience a bespoke art installation by visual artist Vivienne Byrne and enjoy a music programme in our theatre featuring Oisin Leech with support from Dotts O' Connor, and ambient music in our gallery from DJ Emmie Lou.
After a decade and a half in duo The Lost Brothers Irish musician Oisin Leech announced himself in 2024 as a singer-songwriter of some distinction with his stunning solo debut album 'Cold Sea'. As crisp and clear as the North Atlantic Ocean beside which it was recorded, his album benefited from the subtle presence of some stellar musicians, namely Steve Gunn, M Ward, Dónal Lunny, Róisín McGrory, and Bob Dylan's bass player Tony Garnier but the acute sense of yearning was all Leech's own.
Oisin's songs map exile, love, loss, and healing via erudite guitar and judicious use of synth and strings. The wilds of Malin, in north Co. Donegal helped inspire this quiet gem of a record. The songs, which are steeped in folk nestle up and whisper in your ear- they are deliberately uncluttered, even sparse. Like Malin itself, space and air are everywhere and the pace is unhurried. Yet, paradoxically, there is emotional intensity aplenty. Since the album's launch Oisin has been invited to share the stage with Vashti Bunyan, Lisa O’Neill, M Ward, Tindersticks and Gaz Coombes, and we are delighted that he will share our stage in Droichead for Nights Moves this May. .
Support on the night will be provided by Dotts O’Connor, celebrated as the guitarist of RTE Choice-nominated band Come On Live Long and Dirty Dreamer, unveils a remarkable shift in his musical odyssey with the launch of his new solo project. Departing from the collaborative ethos of his former groups, O’Connor delves into uncharted territory, guided solely by his intuition and personal reflections. O’Connor embraces the nuances of his daily musings, shaping his songwriting process with unparalleled authenticity and vulnerability. Dotts has recently released his debut album 'Sorrow Won't Find Us' to critical acclaim.
Curated by SJ McArdle.
Festival Extra at Drogheda Arts Festival.
An innovative & dynamic programme designed to provide new & engaging night time cultural experiences across Drogheda & East Meath. Produced by Droichead Arts Centre, and delivered with a variety of curators promoters & alternative venues, funded by the Night-Time Economy Advisor in Drogheda, and the Arts Council. The programme encapsulates our vision of extending cultural offerings, fostering partnerships, & creating diverse opportunities for artists & audiences.
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Night Moves presents The Stowaway Sessions: PORT by SJ McArdle
Date: 07/06/2025
Time: 20.30
Cost: €20 (+€1.00 fees)
Join us under the shadow of the viaduct as The Stowaway Sessions return as part of Night Moves in association with Drogheda Port.
One more opportunity to see SJ McArdle’s critically-acclaimed song cycle PORT, right on the Port itself! A song cycle born of a year-long research and writing project around the history and stories of Drogheda’s ancient Port, conducted during SJ’s tenure as Artist in Association at Droichead Arts Centre in 2019.
Along with its accompanying critically acclaimed RTÉ Radio 1 Album of the Week, Old Ghosts In The Water, PORT includes Carol Keogh (Plague Monkeys), Graham Henderson (Moving Hearts, Sinead O’Connor), vocalist John Ruddy and fiddle player Róisín Ward Morrow. SJ was previously the songwriter and singer in the award-winning Irish folk band Kern from 2013 to 2020, and he is also known for his career as a singer-songwriter in Nashville and Germany, which produced 2014’s critically acclaimed Blood and Bones album (featuring Rodney Crowell). SJ’s songs and performances have featured on radio, film, and television, and he has toured and recorded extensively in Ireland, Europe, and North America, gathering a loyal following and critical accolades along the way.
“An impressive song cycle .. the songs are intriguing and evocative; they are rooted in folk but coloured by expansive and imaginative arrangements.” – The Irish Times.
"What a great collection of songs this is from SJ McArdle. I urge you to go out and get it." – Fiachna Ó Braonáin” (The Hothouse Flowers, RTÉ)
“All the ingredients of great folk songs” – Lynette Fay (BBC)
The Stowaways Sessions will take place in a warehouse (covered in) on the port by the viaduct and is a seated event. These events will go ahead rain or shine, so please do consider the weather and cool Irish evenings when dressing for the event.
NIGHT MOVES SUMMER SEASON 2025
An innovative & dynamic programme designed to provide new & engaging night time cultural experiences across Drogheda & East Meath returns this summer. Produced by Droichead Arts Centre, delivered with curators, promoters & alternative venues, and funded by the Night-Time Economy Advisor in Drogheda, and the Arts Council. This programme encapsulates our vision of extending cultural offerings, fostering partnerships, and creating diverse opportunities for artists & audiences alike.
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DRAWDA | Drogheda Urban Art and Audio Trail
1st Jan 2025 - 31st Dec 2025
Drogheda Urban Art Trail – Embracing our mythological past
DRAWDA - a curated multidisciplinary public arts programme, launched in Drogheda between November 2021, and April 2022, culminating in an Urban Art Trail throughout Drogheda that focuses on key figures and moments from our mythological past.
Seven murals that focus on key figures and moments from mythology, with an Audio
Trail! Pick up your printed map from Droichead Arts Centre, Love Drogheda BIDS or local business’ or view it digitally online below. Then, take a stroll throughout Drogheda following the trail, and use your smart device to scan the code and listen to the mythological stories behind the murals!
Film Club Spring/Summer 2025
14 JAN – 20 MAY | 8pm | 8 films for €48 | Droichead Arts Centre
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Film Club is back for Spring 2025. Droichead Arts Centre in partnership with Access Cinema, are delighted to welcome back our Film Club members, with a season of eight engaging and beautiful films from around the world, once again curated by Sinead Brassil and Niall O'Brien of LMFM's film review segment 'Reel Reviews'. Each film is introduced by the curators and followed by a short post screening discussion.
Once again you can expect the wild and wonderful, the best and most breath taking independent cinema from around the world with 8 amazing films for only €48!
And we are again delighted to partner with the film makers of DKiT to present one short film by the graduating class before four of the screenings.
TOUCH (2024) | Dir Baltasar Kormákur | Romance/Drama | Iceland | Tue 28 Jan
KATHLEEN IS HERE (2024) | Dir Eva Birthistle | Drama | Ireland | Tue 18 Feb
IT’S RAINING MEN (2023) | Dir Caroline Vignal | Comedy | France | Tue 4 Mar
BIRD (2024) | Dir Andrea Arnold | Drama | UK | Tue 29 Apr
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL (2024) | Dir Rungano Nyoni | Comedy/Drama | Ireland, UK, Zambia | Tue 13 May
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (2024) | Dir Payal Kapadia | Drama | France | Tue 20 May
Stockwell Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
