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King Kong Company, one of the major names set for Laois arts and music festival
Tickets have gone on sale today for an up and coming Laois music and arts festival.
Forest Fest 2022 will take place in the gorgeous surrounds of Emo Village in June.
The line-up revealed earlier this week includes Electric Picnic favourites like King Kong Company, Riptide Movement and Cathy Davey. It also has a big Laois bias to support homegrown musicians including The Lost Messiahs.
Full line-up below.
Tickets went on sale this Friday, March 25 at 12 noon.
The inaugural festival promises an ambitious, diverse, eclectic, and fun-filled entertaining line-up promises to be the soundtrack of the summer.
The organisers are thrilled with the enthusiastic response by the community and are determined to make it a successful annual event.
“We’re aiming for a quality programme, which captures the summer festival feelgood vibe with the music centre stage supported by a broad ranging arts and entertainment programme, a funky mix of performers which can attract fans and families to Emo for the best weekend of the summer on the second last weekend in July.
“We want people to muse, be amused and meander through the festival, the village, Emo Court and the lovely Laois environs to enjoy a weekend of entertainment like no other,” promoter Philip Meagher said setting out his vision for the first ever Forest Fest.
“We want the festival to work for everyone, the music fans, families, the local community, visitors and or course the artists and performers. We want to create fond memories and for everyone to already be looking forward to the following year once the festival wraps on the Sunday night. To that end we’ll be keeping everything tight and manageable with numbers for the overall audience, camping, festival club, all strictly limited,” explains Philip.
To make Forest Fest as convenient as possible for everyone involved, car parking for festival ticket holders will be free and connecting buses from all the major towns and cities will be organised to facilitate daily ticket holders attending and returning from the concerts.
Tickets are now on sale on the Forest Fest website www.forestfest.ie or from Eventbrite.
Weekend tickets are €170. There are also individual daily tickets for each day of the festival, Friday €65; Saturday, €75 and Sunday, €65. A limited issue Weekend Festival Club ticket is €195.
There are also weekend ticketing options with camping or campervan/motorhome/caravan. These cost an additional €30 and €50 respectively. Both overnight camping options are strictly limited and are sold online on a first come first served basis.
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