{"id":357876,"date":"2025-12-20T15:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/357876\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:36:07","slug":"headliiners-announced-for-brigit-2026-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/357876\/","title":{"rendered":"Headliiners announced for Brigit 2026 celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dublin singer songwriter Gemma Dunleavy and Donegal blues guitarist Muireann Bradley have been announced to headline the Brigit celebrations in Dublin this January.<\/p>\n

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\nGemma Dunleavy<\/p>\n

Now in its fifth year, Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women returns from Friday 30 January to Bank Holiday Monday 2 February 2026, with a city-wide celebration of women’s voices, creativity and cultural expression inspired by the ancient Celtic goddess Brigit.<\/p>\n

Dunleavy and Bradley will headline Brigit x District, a two-night concert series programmed in partnership with District Magazine, taking place at Abbey Presbyterian Church on Friday 30 and Saturday 31 January.<\/p>\n

According to event organisers, “In early Celtic times, this season was not only a time to mark the awakening of nature after the winter months, but a time for bringing new ideas and projects into the burgeoning light, for growing what we have been reflecting on through the previous season.<\/p>\n

“Brigit was and still is associated with ideas of inspiration, healing, magic, smithcraft, wisdom, poetry, protection, fire, and the hearth.”<\/p>\n

Opening the festival weekend, Dunleavy, who had success with her track Up De Flats in 2020, will play a rare headline performance in Dublin.<\/p>\n

On Saturday 31 January, Brigit x District continues with Muireann Bradley, the 18-year-old singer and guitarist from Ballybofey, County Donegal who specialises in acoustic fingerpicking styles drawn from early country, Piedmont and ragtime blues.<\/p>\n

Brigit 2026 will once again present performances, talks, workshops and “large-scale cultural moments” across the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin singer songwriter Gemma Dunleavy and Donegal blues guitarist Muireann Bradley have been announced to headline the Brigit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-357876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}