Internationally acclaimed music festival Other Voices returning to Derry

The internationally acclaimed music festival Other Voices is returning to Derry in September.

Famously, Derry was the destination for the first Other Voices foray outside Kerry in 2013 and returned in 2014.

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Other Voices in The Glassworks in 2014

It will back in the North West for two days on September 25-26.

The 'Journal' understands the ambition is to host three consecutive annual legs of the festival in Derry.

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Other Voices is returning to Derry

Earlier this month it was announced the festival was among six events in the North West to benefit from the Tourism Northern Ireland’s International Tourism Events Fund (ITEF) in 2026/27.

During its last trip to Derry the main Other Voices gigs were held in The Glassworks on Great James' Street with local pubs and venues also hosting performances in line with the festival's format pioneered by Philip King in Co. Kerry.

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