This October, Dundalk ignites with Bold Frontiers, a brand-new urban festival celebrating music, arts, and contemporary culture. From October 10th to 12th, 2025, the town’s streets and landmark spaces will become a canvas for bold creativity, bringing together visionary artists, audiences, and communities for a weekend of discovery and connection.

Set against the historic backdrop of Ireland’s Ancient East, the festival will unfold across a constellation of iconic venues, including The Spirit Store, Mo Chara, Toales, Dundalk Gaol, St Nicholas Church, and An Táin Arts Centre. Each space will be transformed to host cutting-edge performances, immersive installations, and late-night gatherings, creating an unforgettable cultural trail through the heart of Dundalk.
Bold Frontiers is not just about showcasing art, it’s about reshaping how a town can feel over a single weekend. By crossing boundaries between music, art, and place, the festival invites visitors to see Dundalk differently: as a cultural hub with a raw, vital energy and a gateway to new experiences.

Festival organisers explain:
“Bold Frontiers is about exploring the frontiers, between genres, between spaces, and between communities. We want to create a festival that feels alive in the streets and venues of Dundalk, where audiences can stumble upon something unexpected and leave with a sense of having been part of something unique and unrepeatable.”

Line up includes:

• The Altered Hours

• Battleship Potemkin: Live Score with Rory Friers (And So I Watch You From Afar)

• Chop!

• Elaine Howley

• Elaine Malone

• FONTAINES DC DJs

• John Francis Flynn

• Just Mustard

• Milkweed

• Roger Doyle

• Róis

• Tessio

• Trad Rave

More to be announced soon...