Dublin’s music lovers are in for a treat this week with a diverse lineup of gigs set to light up the city. Big stages will welcome world-renowned artists, delivering powerful performances that echo through the night, while smaller, more intimate venues offer a chance to experience music up close and personal. With genres ranging from pop and rock to folk and jazz, there’s a concert for every preference, ensuring everyone finds their perfect sound.
Tickets are still available for all of the gigs at this time, so if you fancy a quiet night out listening to some of your favourite tunes while enjoying a drink or two or would rather have that proper concert experience surrounded by thousands as you rock the night away you, there’s something for you somewhere in the city during this first musical week of July. GRAMMY-winning music trailblazer SZA continued her European tour in June 2023, including stops in Manchester, Glasgow, and London’s O2 Arena before concluding in Dublin at 3Arena on June 21, 2023, after an extraordinarily successful 17-city sold-out run throughout the United States–now, she’s back in 2024 for another night at Malahide Castle following high demand from Irish audiences. The tour comes after SZA’s highly regarded sophomore album, SOS, released in December 2022 and set a record for the longest streaming week for an R&B album in the US for Solána Imani Rowe.
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