All musicians listed on Hooley! who are based in Cork. Top Youtube videos listed first. Click on the interactive map to access other counties!
Gavin Dunne is the man behind the internet music project Miracle Of Sound. His songs and compositions (produced & mixed 100% solo...
Talos is Eoin French, from Cork in Ireland. He makes patient, plaintive electronic pop music. He arrived in late 2014, with the...
Brian Deady had been something of a well kept secret at home in Ireland until his song Clap Both My Hands became one of the most played...
John Spillane is a musician, songwriter, performer, recording artist, storyteller, poet, dreamer - a canvass filled with color and...
Mick Flannery is an Irish singer and songwriter. His debut album Evening Train resulted from his time spent studying music and...
Following the warm reception of Clare’s debut album ‘Shelter’, Clare has been busy writing and recording new music for her...
Formed in 2011 , The Buachaills pride themselves on providing high quality live entertainment for Weddings and Corporate Events. They...
Chicago born Christiana Underwood is an upcoming artist based in Cork City. She is a vocalist of four in the Deep South Soul...
Emmo is a unique and intelligent singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who cites Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey, Hozier,...
The Last Vinci is rock project headed by vocalist Alex Vinci, who moved to Ireland to release his own record. Alex was a member of a...
Sam Clague is a singer songwriter and producer from cork. His songs are driven by intricate guitar arrangements that echo the sounds of...
No Wave from Cork City. On their latest EP, This is No-Wave raucous heavy metal riffs mix nicely with Talking Heads style vocals. Hot...
Described by RTÉ Lyric FM as an 'exceptional talent',and Hot Press as 'a passionate and alluring unique force in Irish music', Clare...
An extraordinary voice.. Our guests were blown away by Fiona's music ! Fiona Kennedy is an award winning singer & guitarist who...
Sarah Burke-Hochstedler is a Cork-based wedding singer with over 12 years experience. An accomplished performer, Sarah has the...
Cork wedding Band THE LOVE BUGS are a five piece Wedding/Function Band. We provide some of the best Live wedding entertainment on the...
Although still young, award winning performers KUDOS, have racked up an impressive list of international live and radio performances....
Definitely, one of the most unique sounds, Happy Alone’s idiosyncratic alternative pop sound is both memorable and expressive. Their...
WORN OUT are a 4-piece metal/hardcore band from Cork, Ireland. Since forming and releasing their debut single With False Hope in 2017,...
As a five piece, The Shaker Hymn craft sharp and thoughtful pop songs - reminiscent of the lush and warm guitar music of the late...
Hailing out of Newbridge, County Kildare and now singing out of Cork City, Sara Ryan, armed with her lyrical blend of emotional...
Ryan Kershaw is an international recording artist, songwriter, author and music educator. Ryan's 'Success and Creativity' workshop was...
Order Of The Mess are an alternative/stoner-rock power duo formed in 2013 by Alex (guitar/voice) and Max(drums) and hailing from Cork,...
Míde Houlihan is a Clonakilty bred singer songwriter, who has captured the hearts of many an Irish audience over the last number of...
Fintan McKahey is the son of an Irish drummer (Stump) and a British actress. He grew up in the wild, rugged landscape of West Cork,...
The MAFIA Cats are a distinctively dynamic high energy, Bass thumping, Twangy guitar licking three-piece Rockabilly, Jazz & Blues...
Pinhole are a quirky Cork-based 4 piece, brandishing the alternative flag but deliberately skating over genre boundaries creating their...
The Stars are Munster's funkiest and finest wedding band. Loads of 80's and 90's, modern hits, old-school crowd-pleasers, waltzes for...
Youghal Pipe Band are one of the longest existing pipe bands in Ireland. Founded 1914 by Danny (Duis) McCarthy. A long and proud...
With their genesis on a small Island off the West Coast of Ireland, The Niall McCabe Band have honed a sound that is structured around...
Blind Poet’s music lies somewhere between neo classical contemporary celtic folk and contemporary world music sound; a music which...
SHOOKRAH are a 5-piece outfit from Cork, serving fresh helpings of synth-grooves, interruptive hooks and dystopian romance-themed...
The Aristocrats are a seven piece function and wedding band based in Cork. Formed in the early noughties they have been playing...
The band formed out of Orla Travers’ necessity; a necessity to tell stories and to write songs. She and Julian Halpin got together in...
Sarah-Beth is an alternative singer-songwriter making a name for herself as a truly original artist who likes to push creative...
Harmony loving Folk/Pop duo from Cork, ‘The Shruggs’, (comprising of long-time friends and Musicians James Downing and Kees...
Joey Weidner (guitars) and Jonathon ‘JR’ Russell (vocals) are TALKING WAVES. Inspired by the Muscle Shoals Alabama story that...
Quangodelic play classy Jazz/funk. Influenced in equal parts by Parliament/Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone, Captain Beefheart,...
Lowlek are a Vaudeville-Funk band from Cork City. Existing originally as an anonymous solo outfit, the now six-piece band have evolved...
Jack O’Rourke is one of those mercurial artists whose musical imagination and personality has made him an intriguing entity to his...
Cork Youth Orchestra, established in April 1958 by the Cork Soroptimist Club, was first conducted by Mr. Michael O’Callaghan M.A.,...
Hailing from Clonakilty, Ireland, Eve Clague is a singer-songwriter who draws on the rich variety of music she grew up with in her home...
Strange Attractor are a Funk/Pop outfit formed in Dingle, Co. Kerry. The band feature Fionn o' Neill on lead vocals and guitar, Mattie...
Rough Sunday are the songrwiting duo Amhlaoibh McSweeney & Diarmuid Wolfe, two young musicians from the West Cork Gaeltacht. ...
Ruby Tina is an Irish-Canadian singer/songwriter and piano player based in Cork, Ireland. Since her early teens, Ruby has written,...
The Vercettis formed in 2016 and have spent the last few years gigging around Cork City, writing songs and experimenting with different...
Emerson are a Rock'n'Roll band from Cork. The band has been together for 3 years and have achieved plenty of recognition in Cork and...
Ash Red are a three-piece post-punk band hailing from Cork, Ireland. Comprised of Isaac Walsh on drums, Tadhg O'Keeffe on bass guitar,...
Lalor, an Irish bred lad writes songs from the heart and wears his on his sleeve when sitting down with the pen and paper. Honest and...
Cerebral, mature, joyously melodic, a band that strives to make well crafted dance-able songs. Songs to provide joy even when dealing...
Meghan Murray is an Irish R&B Pop singer-songwriter. Born in Belgium to a South African mother and Irish father, she moved to Cork...
Arundó are a particularly experienced and talented bunch of traditional Irish Musicians who have played at many weddings in Ireland...
Castle Street consists of brothers Jordan and Ruadhán Mew, originally from Roscommon. The boys started their gigging careers in their...
Kenny Dread got his stage name touring and recording with the legendary Rastafari punk shaman and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee...
The Boogie Band specialise in providing 100% live music entertainment for Weddings and Corporate Events, Parties, Pubs and Clubs. They...
The Originals Wedding and Party Band. Munster wedding band of the year 2018. Their setup includes a 5 piece band with lighting and...
Laura Duff is a musician winner of the IYMA’s Paul Clancy Songwriting Award in 2015, from Limerick, Ireland. She spends most of her...
Colm Fitzpatrick, multi award-winning singer and songwriter, has enriched the music scene with his gifted ability to speak to the soul...
Laurie Shaw hails from The Wirral peninsula. He has made over 80 records in the Kerry mountains including Working Nights, My Girlfriend...
The Irish Gamelan Orchestra (IGO) (formerly Cork Gamelan Ensemble) was established in 2013 with the aim of developing a collaborative...
STAY are an original band from Cork, Ireland. They were formed in late 2014 when Lukasz Komonski and ‘Aido’ Adrian O’Connor got...
Pale Rivers are a five piece alternative/rock band based out of Cork and Tipperary, Ireland. In 2017 the band began a trans-atlantic...
Introducing Rowan: A talented foursome of multi-instrumentalists creating melodramatic indie-folk songs soaked in sophisticated vocal...
A COW IN THE WATER - Formed in Blarney, Co Cork, Ireland in 1986. The Cows were part of the Post-punk movement in Cork, Ireland,...
Atlas Zero is a 3 piece alternative rock band from Cork, Ireland. The band first formed back in 2013 when they were all introduced to...
Marlene Enright is talents as a musical alchemist have never been more visible than on her new single, taken from the debut solo album...
Barry Wilson is from Cork, Ireland and has spent the last year in studio collaborating with over 22 musicians around Ireland creating,...
Lewis Barfoot is a songwriter, contemporary folk artist & jazz singer based in Cork. She writes mystic and majestic songs, blending...
Lλmbdancer is an intergalactic collaboration between Darqhorse and Moonbird, two space & time travelers who crash landed on earth...
The Munster String Quartet is Irelands most flexible and versatile Quartet, boasting an extensive, ever-expanding repertoire of...
Cór Cois Abhann ('the Choir by the River') was founded in 1990 and draws its membership from all parts of Cork city. The choir has...
Newmarket Pipe Band founded in 1963. The band have enjoyed nearly 50 years of success. They are always looking for new members to join...
John Christopher Treacy: an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, born in Tallow Co. Waterford. He began his music career...
Founded End of 2016 by Jeroen Blancke and Jasmin O'Davidson in Midleton County Cork Ireland and won the NUA Music Award in Cork. ...
Columbia are a four-piece Indie rock band from Cork, Ireland who have set the scene in the south for a new wave of indie pop/rock...
From the sleeping remnants of Armoured Bear, Anthony Noonan emerges from musical hibernation with a new project, Q.U.I.E.T. ...
Music can be an escape and a way to process the world around you. For Cork-based singer-songwrtier Clodagh, it's a way of paying...
Podge Lane is a young alternative-country singer based in Cork. Drawing from his inspirations in genres such as bluegrass, indie-rock...
we are a metal band located in cork city. playing originals that consist of low tuned instruments groovy riffs mixed with sinister...
Its origins lie with the military band of the town’s British Army Garrison – the only source of Classical and European music for...
Midleton Concert Band was founded as Midleton Holy Rosary Brass & Reed Band in 1951. The band took the name from the name of the...
Following on from the release of his latest single Berlin (Hot Press's Ones to Watch listings), and an inclusion on the Live at the...
**Colin D. Cronin** is the creative force behind the one-man band **@TheFutureCorkLocalBand**. Known for his engaging live gigs near...
Delta String Quartet is Cork’s premier provider of beautiful music for any wedding or event. Whether you are planning a church...