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Sounds From a Safe Harbour festival in Cork announces additions to 2025 lineup

The Sounds From a Safe Harbour (SFSH) festival has announced another raft of artists heading to Cork in September. Having previously revealed headliners such as Beth Orton and Jon Hopkins, organisers of the biennial event have added a diverse mix of other concerts, including rapper God Knows, and former Gloaming duo Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett. Unique Limerick artist Bobby Fingers also makes his first appearance in Cork, after transforming himself from Mr Chrome of the Rubberbandits via a series of weird and wonderful videos on YouTube. Nobody is quite sure what the Fingers experience will involve, but we're told: "There will be a band. There may be some art. There will definitely be jokes. Maybe a book reading. No raffle." Bobby Fingers. This year's event is again headed up by Mary Hickson, with others on the curation team including actor Cillian Murphy, Bryce Dessner of The National, author Max Porter, and folklorist Billy MagFhlionn. The usual emphasis on collaboration at the festival will again see various collaborations and impromptu sessions as part of the 37d03d ("PEOPLE") strand. The fruits of a previous collaboration sparked by SFSH were heard with the recent release of A Dawning, the album by Olafur Arnalds and the late Cork musician Talos, aka Eoin French. The opening concert of the 2025 event at Cork Opera House is an already sold-out tribute to Talos. The 2025 festival is also expanding its film strand, with details of that being announced early next week. Meanwhile, Netflix has announced that the film Steve – a collaboration between two of the SFSH curators, Murphy and Porter – will open the Toronto International Film Festival in September before appearing on the streaming network later in autumn. An adaptation of the English author's book, Shy, it stars the Cork actor as a head teacher in a reform school. Sounds from a Safe Harbour takes place in various venues in Cork from September 11-14. For full details and tickets, see