Mercury Rev, Cormac Begley and Rachael Lavelle are among seven new acts added to the line-up of the inaugural In The Meadows festival at The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin on Saturday, 8 June.
They join the already announced Lankum, Mogwai, Black Country, New Road, Mercury Rev, John Francis Flynn and This Is The Kit, with additional tickets on sale at 9am on Friday, 12 April via Ticketmaster Ireland and usual outlets priced from €59.35 including booking fee.
Tara Clerkin Trio, Mohammad Syfkhan, Andy The Doorbum, Ana Palindrome will also play the new one-day music festival.
The event is from the people behind All Together Now and Forbidden Fruit and takes place in the grounds of the Irish Museum Of Modern Art across two stages.
Dublin folk act Lankum, who won this year's Choice Music Prize, are co-curating the festival, which also sees the return of Scottish post-rock pioneers Mogwai, experimental jazz and spoken word ensemble Black Country, New Road, folk multi-instrumentalist John Francis Flynn and British musician Kate Stables aka This Is The Kit.
No strangers to Ireland, Mercury Rev, the indie rock band from Buffalo, New York, make their return, while acclaimed Dublin-based musician Rachael Lavelle and Irish traditional musician Cormac Begley will also play.
Hailing from Bristol, the Tara Clerkin Trio offers an eclectic blend of folk and experimental jazz. Leitrim-based Kurdish/Syrian musician and Bouzouki player Mohammad Syfkhan infuses Middle Eastern and North African elements into his music.
US musician Andy The Doorbum is known for his macabre, emotionally raw and genre-blending music and Irish band Ana Palindrome, an Irish band weaving tales around a fictional character, promises a unique musical experience, drawing from their backgrounds in Cork City’s DIY scene.
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