Dublin Quays Festival to be held for the very first time

A new festival taking place in the heart of Dublin city centre will be held in August.

The Dublin Quays Festival will take place in seven venues: The Workmans Club, The Sound House, The Liquor Rooms, The Grand Social, The Wiley Fox, Sin E and Bagots Hutton.

A press release lists the lineup as follows:

'The lineup includes Old Hannah from the wild west of Ireland, songstress Cat Dowling, Wicklow’s Birds Of Olympus, stunning Maria Kelly, Dublin’s alternative rock/pop 5-piece Fiction Peaks, Today FM DJ Kelly-Anne Byrne, Super Silly, re-emerging Death In The Sickroom, Brighton based Sussex Universities Big Band, alternative folk act Orchid Collective, Indie group Little One, comedian Alison Spittle, the Dixieland Jazzmen, slam poet John Cummins, Dublin's Kicking Bird and lots more.'

The Festival was set up in order to provide the city centre with an equivalent to the summer festivals taking place in less urban location during the summer.

The Dublin Quays Festival also intends to curate 'afternoons of spoken word, cultural talks, literary events, pop up performances and club nights.'

The launch party for the Festival takes place in the Wiley Fox on 28 Eden Quay, Dublin from six p.m tonight (June 18).