A festival of medieval music returns to Limerick

A FESTIVAL of music from ages past returns to the Treaty City this March.

Now in its fifth year, the Limerick Early Music Festival will fill the week after St Patrick’s Day with unforgettable musical tales under the theme of ‘Scéalta – Stories’. 

Stories from across the centuries will feature at the Limerick Early Music Festival (LEMF) in Limerick city from Tuesday, March 18 to Sunday, March 23.

Across six days of events, leading national and international early music artists will weave their spell of storytelling for concertgoers, taking them on extraordinary musical adventures for the ears, the imagination, and the soul.

Programme venues for the festival include the Belltable, St Mary’s Cathedral, Dance Limerick and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. 

Topping it all off is a visit from the globally renowned guru of the Galician pipes, Carlos Núñez. 

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Stories are the magical part of history as well as the core of current events, and for half a decade the Limerick Early Music Festival has made it its mission to bring these amazing narratives to Limerick audiences. 

“For five years now, LEMF has become a destination for Early Music lovers in Ireland and further afield,” said LEMF co-directors Yonit Kosovske and Vlad Smishkewych. “We have strived, since our very beginnings, to be a place where old and new meet and play shoulder to shoulder.”

“The 2025 Limerick Early Music Festival features storytelling across time and place and space, bringing audiences along diverse soundscapes, filling their eyes, ears, and hearts with colourful tapestries of sound and word across continents, countries, and cultures and with over 1000 years of musical tales, vocal and instrumental.”

Limerick’s own festival of medieval music features everything from Baroque music, dance events, film screenings, harpsichord performances, lunchtime concerts, orchestras, award winning musicians, a puppeteering workshop, new concert technology, early percussion, string, and wind instruments, and global bagpipe superstar Carlos Núñez, all those with a love of medieval music will wish to attend this Limerick festival.

For more information, tickets, and booking see www.limerickearlymusic.com.