Traditional Irish music on shore excursions in Belfast

[boxguyswife]

Is it possible to hear traditional music anywhere in Belfast in the afternoon or early evening, as we have to be nboard at 9pm

[sparks389]

Interested also! On a previous visit to Ireland, but not Belfast, we found it difficult to find traditional music. Most pubs were listening to contemporary music and drinking Bud!

[VMax1700]

Most music does not occur during the early week, but towards and at the weekend.  It would also be difficult to find somewhere during the afternoon/early evening.

Perhaps you could get a group together from your Roll Call and have a private seisún with these guys.......

https://visitbelfast.com/partners/belfast-traditional-music-trail-2/

[davekent]

Hopefully a local can give you a definitive answer. My thoughts as a fairly regular visitor is that as mentioned by VMax you will struggle on a weekday for anything during daytime hours. Should you be in port on a Saturday or Sunday then pubs like The John Hewitt, McHugh's and the Dirty Onion/Second fiddle all seem to have traditional music scheduled for the afternoon/early evening (Sunday afternoon in the John Hewitt was a favourite last time but believe it may have changed hands since then)

[Cruisen Elf]

We did a pub crawl with traditional Irish music and dinner with this company:   https://www.musicalpubcrawl.com/  They also have just a pub crawl with no dinner that may fit into your time frame better.  They played and talked about traditional Irish music, and we really enjoyed it.  It is a quick taxi ride back to the ship.

 

This was pre-pandemic, but it looks to be the same tour.

[Cruisen Elf]

On 2/16/2023 at 5:48 PM, Cruisen Elf said:

We did a pub crawl with traditional Irish music and dinner with this company:   https://www.musicalpubcrawl.com/

 

I am so sorry  -  our pub tour with traditional Irish music was in Dublin, not Belfast.  So please disregard my previous post unless you want to try the music in Dublin.  🥴

[CCJack]

We had a band on the ship that was from Belfast.   They recommended during their show to visit the Duke of York for Irish music ...   (perhaps this was a paid endorsement!!)   Anyway we walked by while we were in Belfast and it looked like a fun place, but we were short on time and did not stop.