Milwaukee Irish Fest’s 42nd Festival Lineup Features Fan Favorites and New Acts

Milwaukee Irish Fest, the world’s largest Irish music festival, announced its anticipated 42nd festival lineup and launched a buy one get one ticket promotion. Now through March 19, save on tickets by getting two for the price of one – only $12.50 a piece. Admission to Irish Fest includes access to over 100 acts across 16 stages, plus endless entertainment and cultural activities such as sporting events, genealogy research assistance, Irish language sessions, theater performances, and so much more!

Featured musical entertainers this year include Boxing Banjo, The Byrne Brothers, Cassie and Maggie, Derek Warfield and The Young Wolfe Tones, The Diddley Idols, Doolin’, The Drowsy Lads, Eileen Ivers,Goitse, The Henry Girls, Lisa Canny, Shane Hennessy, and Skerryvore. Irish Fest is also bringing back fan favorites Gaelic Storm and Scythian.

The famed indie rock group from Dublin, The Coronas, will return for the first time since 2017 and Hermitage Green, an acoustic folk rock group from Limerick, will also return. Ten artists and bands will make their Irish Fest debut this year: Colm and Laura Keegan from Scotland, The Finns, The Friel Sisters, Gross Isle, MEGA-Trad, Merfolk, Polly Barrett, and Wallis Bird from Ireland, and Steam and Ulla from Irish America.

View the full lineup at irishfest.com/lineup and get the lowest ticket price available at irishfest.com/tickets. Irish Fest returns to the Henry Maier Festival Park Augusts 17 – 20 for four days of music, culture and craic.

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