01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Irish music festival to transform popular tourist attraction into exciting new 150ft-high stage ‘with live animation'
A POPULAR Irish music festival is set to transform a major tourist attraction into an incredible new 150ft stage.
Night and Day Festival, which is held in the magnificent Lough Key Forest Park in Co. Roscommon, announced a spellbinding new stage set up today.
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Night and Day Festival takes place this June 27-29
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Festival bosses have announced a new 150ft stage for this year's festival
The independent festival is expected to take place from Friday, June 27 until Sunday, June 29.
Festival bosses recently revealed their brand-new "Sol Stage" which will see acts perform from a perch high up on the 150ft high Moylurg Tower at Lough Key Forest Park.
The impressive new brutalist structure will be illuminated by Visual artist Sergey Khadjava.
The artist will light up the entire "Tower stage" with live animation for festival goers during the Night and Day's "Forest Rave sessions".
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The performances on
the Tower
Stage will also be captured on a multi-camera setup and broadcast in the months after the festival.
New acts added to the Tower Stage include Mathman, Nialler9, Efa O'Neill and Mark Wolfson.
These acts join the previously announced Daithi who will close out the festival with a live performance on Sunday night.
Dublin-based act, Mayfield Sound, will also return to Night and Day to perform on the Electric Cave stage.
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The festival's headliners include Irish rock band The Stunning, singer-songwriter legend Paul Brady and noughties hitmaker KT Tunstall.
Outside of a packed schedule of music, exhibitions and family-friendly fun, Night and Day also invites festival goers to explore many of the park's unique, natural and historical features from its 19th-century parkland.
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Filled with majestic trees, follies, bridges and canals, there are numerous walks and trails through the native woodlands, bog garden and forests.
Lough Key Forest Park is already home to several activities such as zip-lining courses, tree-top walks, and boat tours, all of which Night and Day ticket holders can access over the weekend.
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The existing campsite at Lough Key also offers a high-end
camping
experience,
water
stations, and showers.
Night and Day is a strictly over 20s event, but those under 14 can enter with a kids ticket when accompanied by an adult.
Tickets
for Night and Day are currently on sale now on their website.
As it stands, a weekend adult camping ticket costs €185, while a children's ticket costs just €2.
Day tickets are also on sale now, Friday tickets cost €55 while Saturday and Sunday tickets cost €88.
