Carlow Arts Festival

Carlow Arts Festival Carlow Arts Festival returns in 2026, Thurs 28 May - Sunday 1 June.

After two years of limited live events, we are thrilled to be welcoming back audiences to our HQ in the grounds of Carlow College and across Carlow Town. Prinicipally funded by The Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon


Eigse-Carlow Arts Limited is a registered charity (No. 20035419)

15/06/2026

🎉 We Need Your Vote! 🎉

Carlow Arts Festival are in with a chance to win €20,000 as part of the AIB Community Fund. All we need is your vote.

Voting is quick and easy:

1️⃣ Visit https://aib.ie/personal-forms/community-fund
2️⃣ Select Rest of Leinster as your location
3️⃣ Enter our charity number: 20035419
4️⃣ Submit your vote before 19 June

Your support could help us continue delivering inspiring arts experiences, supporting artists, and bringing communities together through creativity and culture.

Every vote counts, so please take a moment to vote and share this post with friends, family, and colleagues.

Thank you for supporting Carlow Arts Festival and helping the arts thrive in our community. ❤️

We need your help to be in with a chance of winning €20,000 as part of the AIB Community Fund. This funding is crucial ...
12/06/2026

We need your help to be in with a chance of winning €20,000 as part of the AIB Community Fund.

This funding is crucial for our festival to continue to bring the community together, develop artists and help young people find their passion.

It's very simple to nominate us and only takes 2 minutes.

All you need is

⭐ Your email address
⭐ Our Charity number 20035419
⭐ Charity Name Carlow Arts Festival
⭐ Charity Location Rest of Leinster

Log on to

aib.ie/personal-forms/community-fund

Thank you all for making this year's festival special and let's see if we can make next year even better.

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✨ It's been one week since the magical 2026 Carlow Arts Festival wrapped up. We are so overjoyed and grateful to everyon...
08/06/2026

✨ It's been one week since the magical 2026 Carlow Arts Festival wrapped up. We are so overjoyed and grateful to everyone who came and enjoyed Carlow Arts Festival 2026. ✨

None of this is possible without the amazing artists and musicians who left us spellbound with their great shows and concerts.

A special thanks to all our volunteers and production team who helped to create such a great edition of the festival this year.
We couldn’t do it without our supporters, funders and partners. A massive thank you to all of you, too.

We are proud to deliver such a large programme for free and to engage so many local people in what we do. If you can, please do donate to help us ensure we can continue to do this again in the future.

Your donations will allow us to bring more exceptional shows, workshops and participatory opportunities to the festival in the near future and ensure we can offer amazing experiences to audiences and participants alike for free.

Donate: https://www.carlowartsfestival.ie/join-and-support/make-a-donation

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Carlow County Council, Carlow College, St. Patrick's, Ireland, O'Hara's Irish Craft Beers, Carlow Arts Office, Carlow Volunteer Centre, VISUAL Carlow, Carlow Credit Union, Dooley Motors, Woodford Dolmen Hotel, Ampifi, RTÉ, Bagenalstown Improvement Group, Creative Places Bagenalstown, Music Generation Carlow, Music Generation Waterford, Active Carlow, Delta Sensory Gardens Carlow 2026, Lamh, Carlow Traveller Forum, Carlow Tourism, Local Enterprise Office Carlow, Carlow County Development Partnership CLG, Tullys Bar Carlow

We are deeply saddened by the passing of friend and colleague Dermot Mulligan. He was instrumental in safeguarding and p...
04/06/2026

We are deeply saddened by the passing of friend and colleague Dermot Mulligan. He was instrumental in safeguarding and promoting Carlow's history and heritage. Dermot was an incredibly kind, intelligent person and was always happy to see you and will be greatly missed.

Ar dheis Dè go raibh a anam.

Huge thank you to our partner Woodford Dolmen for their support over the festival!Here’s a sneak peek of the bridal suit...
02/06/2026

Huge thank you to our partner Woodford Dolmen for their support over the festival!

Here’s a sneak peek of the bridal suite 🐥🐥

A look back at the Sunday of Carlow Arts Festival 🎭We had a lot of laughs on Sunday night at the comedy gala featuring S...
01/06/2026

A look back at the Sunday of Carlow Arts Festival 🎭

We had a lot of laughs on Sunday night at the comedy gala featuring Sharon Mannion, Bernard Casey, Sophia Wren and Andrew Maxwell.

Incredible music and dance from Céili Afro Dabke Ukraine, the morning Drumming workshop, drums from Maracatu ilha Brilhante.

More delightful street performances O! And Miss Mary

01/06/2026

A Teen Odyssey opened yesterday to two packed audiences!

Three more shows left today of this immersive, fun and moving experience.

Here are some audience reactions and a look at what to expect 🫶🤳

Today at 12:30, 2pm & 3.30pm ❤️ book now at carlowartsfestival.ie

Opening animation created by Josh Lewis

CAF on the Road meets Bagenalstown today as we expand our festival outside of the town! Many exciting performance to be ...
01/06/2026

CAF on the Road meets Bagenalstown today as we expand our festival outside of the town!

Many exciting performance to be held outside St Mary’s Church of Ireland, including incredible show BLOCK.

They’ve been wowing audiences over the weekend with this show on Carlow College Grounds so we are delighted to be taking it to Bagenalstown so that more people across the county can enjoy!

See the full schedule in the next slid

Funded by Carlow Co Council Arts Service under the Carlow Beo! initiative. Supported by Creative Places Bagenalstown and BIG .places.bagenalstown .i.g

Last week, Tony Davis & Patrick Fitzgerald, Carlow Arts Festival's newest employees, led their second in-person workshop...
03/12/2025

Last week, Tony Davis & Patrick Fitzgerald, Carlow Arts Festival's newest employees, led their second in-person workshop, as part of the Our Place project, with a group at Delta Sensory Gardens Carlow 2025. They discussed their human rights and recorded sounds that represented those rights.

On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we recognise that the arts as a sector has a lot of work to do to become more inclusive and supportive of people with disabilities. Carlow Arts Festival are excited to be on this journey to learn and make changes in how we work with the Our Place team.

The Our Place team includes lead artists AlanJames Burns and Sinead McCann, and co-designers Patrick Fitzgerald and Tony Davis, supported by staff at St John of God Liffey Services Dublin.

This project is kindly supported by the from Rethink Ireland.

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