The Brigid Festival 2025: Spirit of Kildare
Building on the success of the Brigid 1500 celebrations, the Brigid 2025 Festival promises an even grander celebration of St. Brigid's legacy. This exciting new chapter, titled “Her Spirit, Our Story,” takes place from January 24th to February 3rd, 2025, and features a diverse range of events designed to engage audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
The festival honours St. Brigid's life and values, which include spirituality, peace, sustainability, arts and culture, social justice, hospitality, and education. A rich program offers ticketed events like large-scale concerts and intimate performances alongside free activities for families and locals. The music events include a star-studded lineup featuring Irish artists like Bob Geldof, Danny O’Reilly, Imelda May, Mary Coughlan, Una Healy, or Lisa O’Neill. This festival offers a unique opportunity to experience Irish culture and celebrate the enduring legacy of St. Brigid. For more information visit the website
Songs on a Boat: The Tiny Deck Concert
Date: 24/01/2025 Time: 7.30PM
Line Up: Megan O’Neill & Friends Location: The Banks of Sallins Grand Canal, Sallins
Distance From Keadeen: 18km | 15 Minutes Cost: FREE
The M52 is making its journey from Robertstown to Sallins Grand Canal for the opening night of the St. Brigid’s Festival 2025, bringing with it a truly magical experience. From the deck of this century-old canal barge, Megan O’Neill and friends will deliver an unforgettable floating concert as audiences gather along the banks of the Grand Canal.
Moving Words with Selma Daniels – interactive dance performances. *Book – Fin and the Wicked Fairy of Tara
Date: 25/01/2025
Location: Riverbank Arts Centre, Main Street, Newbridge, Co. Kildare
Distance From Keadeen: 2km | 5 Minutes Cost: FREE
Moving words' is a story-time with live dance performance event for young audience that combines the art of contemporary dance with reading of selected picture book, with aim of making live dance performance accessible to a wider audience. This event provides the community the experience of an dance performance integrate with a an inclusive and specially tailored movement workshop. This event is recommended for children from 6 to 8 years.
This Wonderful World: A Day for Wellness & Joy
Date: 25/01/2025 Time: 11.00AM
Line up: Professor Noel Fitzpatrick (Channel 4’s Supervet and No.1 best-selling author), Michelin Green Star restauranteur Jess Murphy of Kai Restaurant in Galway, storyteller Helena Byrne, Elaine McDonald of Saor Dance, Jennie Cantwell & the Koru Wellness team. Local historian Denis McCarthy. Location: The Wonderful Barn, Leixlip, Co. Kildare
Distance From Keadeen: 40.5km | 35 Minutes Cost: FREE
A family-friendly event dedicated to health, wellness and en-joy-ment, This Wonderful World: A Day For Wellness & Joy will feature a wide range of activities for adults and children, wellness workshops, sound therapy sessions and a fantastic range of artisan food trucks.
Strongwomen Science
Date: 25/01/2025 Time: 6.00PM
Location: Riverbank Arts Centre, Main Street, Newbridge, Co. Kildare
Distance From Keadeen: 2km | 5 Minutes Cost: FREE
StrongWomen Science is a circus science show for children and families starring two women scientists turned circus performers. Aoife Raleigh is an engineer, Maria Corcoran an environmental scientist. Ever wanted to know how you balance a chair on your chin, if you can juggle liquid, or how circus performers eat fire? StrongWomen Aoife and Maria reveal the scientific secrets behind their astounding tricks.
This Wonderful World: The Concert
Date: 25/01/2025 Time: 7.15PM
Line Up: Mary Coughlan, HamsandwicH, Orla Gartland, Lisa O’Neill & More! Location: The Wonderful Barn, Leixlip, Co. Kildare
Distance From Keadeen: 40.5km | 35 Minutes Cost: € 23.50
A star-studded concert celebrating the theme This Wonderful World and featuring some of Ireland’s leading female artists. Set on the specially built stage of the Wonderful World marquee, with the iconic Wonderful Barn as a backdrop, this concert will connect the spirit of Brigid with the primal power of This Wonderful World we are determined to safeguard, to love and to en-joy…
He For She: An Evening For Equality
Date: 26/01/2025 Time: 7.00PM
Line Up: Bob Geldof, Robert Grace, Danny O’Reilly, Amble, Jack L, Robert Grace and local Athy band MOA Location: Dreamland Ballroom, The Arch, Kilkenny Rd, Blackparks, Athy, Co. Kildare
Distance From Keadeen: 27km | 28 Minutes Cost: € 23.50
In the spirit of positivity and inclusivity that runs throughout Brigid 2025 Festival, the concert will bring together some of Ireland’s leading artists to celebrate the 'He For She' ideal, adding a new dimension to the Brigid’s Day proceedings in which men share the festival, and its core message, of female empowerment
Luxe Theatre Landscape Maynooth
Date: 30/01/2025 Time: 7.15PM
Location: Kildare Town
Distance From Keadeen: 7.5km | 10 Minutes Cost: FREE
Luxe Landscape Theatre will lead a grand fiery processional event through the main street of Maynooth on Thursday January 30th. Gathering at 7.15pm – procession leaves at 7.30pm. Dress for the weather. Photography and filming will be in progress. No tickets are required for this event.
Nothing Compares: A Celebration of Irish Women Artists
Date: 31/01/2025 Time: 7.15PM
Line Up: Laura Whitmore, Imelda May, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Una Healy, Lemoncello, Rachael Lavelle with special guest Sabina Higgins Location: The Moat Theatre, Abbey Rd, Naas, Co. Kildare
Distance From Keadeen: 15.3km | 15 Minutes Cost: € 23.50
A night of extraordinary, genre-spanning music by Irish women, will celebrate the boundless range and talent of Ireland’s contemporary female artists – as singers, songwriters, musicians and spoken word performers – par excellence.
Warriors! Celebrating Ireland’s Sportswomen
Date: 01/02/2025 Time: 11.00AM
Location: The Curragh Racecourse, Co. Kildare
Distance From Keadeen: 2km | 5 Minutes Cost: FREE
A fun, sport-filled day at The Curragh for all the family! This free public event will feature leading Irish sportswomen and sports organisations, in a series of sporting activities, demonstrations, training sessions, meet and greets, and public interviews – with fun for all ages!
The Brigid’s Day Gathering @ The Curragh
Date: 01/02/2025 Time: 7.00PM
Line Up: Sharon Shannon, Lyra, Irish Women In Harmony, and more! Location: The Curragh Racecourse, Co. Kildare
Distance From Keadeen: 2km | 5 Minutes Cost: FREE
This free public concert will take place on Brigid’s Day itself and will be the ultimate celebration of the Spirit of Brigid, in the company of some of the most vital Irish female artists of all time – and music laced with a special sense of the courageous Irish female spirit in glorious action.
Animal Yoga
Date: 02/02/2025 Time: 10.00AM
Location: Clane Community Centre, The Abbey, Main Street Clane, Co Kildare
Distance From Keadeen: 22.7km | 18 Minutes Cost: FREE
Animal Yoga for kids Move and play! Children make shapes and sounds like your favourite animal friends. Imagine fantastic creatures, and bring them to life on the yoga mat. In this inclusive and gentle class, small class sizes ensure a supportive and nurturing environment for all.
Green Grannies Bingo Show
Date: 02/02/2025 Time: 2.00PM
Location: Clane Community Centre, The Abbey, Main Street Clane, Co Kildare
Distance From Keadeen: 22.7km | 18 Minutes Cost: FREE
Climate action champions and angels of chaos, the Green Grannies are a common- sense sensation, spending their retirement knitting up a revolution. Join them for a heartwarming family variety show featuring Symmetry Circus, with the interactive element of Bingo. A feel-good cabaret extravaganza of songs, dance, comedy, circus and action tips to help beat the climate change blues.
Written in the Soul: An Evening of Song
Date: 02/02/2025 Time: 8.00PM
Line Up: Cathy Jordan, Róisín O, Eimear Quinn and Muireann Bradley Location: St. Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare
Distance From Keadeen: 7.5km | 10 Minutes Cost: € 23.50
A Celebration of Irish Women Artists St. Brigid’s Cathedral in Kildare will be a marvellous setting for a musical event. In keeping with the spirit of Brigid, and the dignified aura of the Cathedral, this specially curated, ticketed event will draw from the well of spiritual music, choral music, soul music and the Irish tradition to deliver an event that stirs the soul and the spirit alike.
Enjoy a day of innovation and play
Date: 03/02/2025 Time: 12.00PM
Location: Kilcock Community Centre
Distance From Keadeen: 18km | 14 Minutes Cost: FREE
Experience a day of innovation and play at Kilcock Community Centre on February 3rd! This action-packed day is designed to spark creativity, ignite fun, and bring out the playful side of science, circus, and dance for all ages.