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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
Entertainment
Cathal Ryan

11 Irish acts to perform at SXSW festival this month

A multitude of Irish musicians are heading across the pond to the US to perform at the SXSW festival in Texas.

The South By Southwest festival, abbreviated to SXSW, takes place in the cultural hub of Austin in the Southern US state of Texas every March and celebrates the “convergence of tech, film, music, education, and culture.”

This year a whopping 11 Irish acts will be showcasing across the festival and are grabbing a plane to head to the city to play gigs starting on March 10 up to March 19. They join a line-up of hundreds of artists from every corner of the globe.

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It isn’t just fans of music that descend on the city for SXSW, every year thousands of international music delegates head to the festival in search of new artists and bands.

Jamie Hyland (L) and Roisin Nic Ghearailt (R) of M(h)aol (Kieran Frost/Redferns)

As well as playing a few sets each at different venues, the acts are also performing as part of the Music from Ireland showcase at the festival. An official nighttime showcase will take place on March 16 with the Full Irish Breakfast taking place the next day.

The festival kicks off in a week’s time, if you are intending on travelling over, or are just curious about the acts chosen from Ireland to perform at the festival, you can check out all of the Irish acts performing below:

  • Ailbhe Reddy
  • Aoife Nessa Frances
  • Junk Drawer
  • Lauren Ann
  • M(h)aol
  • Milk.
  • Modernlove.
  • Silverbacks
  • Somebody’s Child
  • Sorcha Richardson
  • The Scratch

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