FOLK CLUB

INDEPENDENT MUSIC VENUE

ÁIT A BHFUIL AN CEOL BEO

a place where music is alive

DeBarra’s Folk Club has been a home for live music for more than 40 years.

Located in the beautiful seaside town of Clonakilty, along the Wild Atlantic Way in West Cork, we have earned worldwide renown as one of the finest independent and grassroots music venues in Ireland.

noel redding

SEANCHAIRDE

old friends

Noel Redding (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), Paddy Keenan (The Bothy Band), Sharon Shannon, Christy Moore, John Spillane and Roy Harper have longstanding associations with DeBarra’s and, along with many others, form the foundation of our little music house’s reputation.

LIVE VENUE COLLECTIVE

saving sacred spaces

Live Venue Collective (LVC) is a group of small to medium-sized independent music venues whose aim is to sustain Ireland’s incredibly important, but fragile, live music ecosystem.

in the media

DE BARRA’S

in the media

De Barra’s has played a major role in Irish life and media over these last forty years, including its role in the highly regarded 2013 documentary The Irish Pub. 

UPCOMING MUSIC

ceol le teacht

Have a look through our calendar for upcoming live music events, or contact us here for more information.

live music

ÁIT A BHFUIL AN CEOL BEO

a place where music is alive

DeBarra’s Folk Club has been a home for live music for more than 40 years.

Located in the beautiful seaside town of Clonakilty, along the Wild Atlantic Way in West Cork, we have earned worldwide renown as one of the finest independent and grassroots music venues in Ireland.

noel redding

SEANCHAIRDE

old friends

Noel Redding (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), Paddy Keenan (The Bothy Band), Sharon Shannon, Christy Moore, John Spillane and Roy Harper have longstanding associations with DeBarra’s and, along with many others, form the foundation of our little music house’s reputation.

LIVE VENUE COLLECTIVE

saving sacred spaces

Live Venue Collective (LVC) is a group of small to medium-sized independent music venues whose aim is to sustain Ireland’s incredibly important, but fragile, live music ecosystem.

in the media

DE BARRA’S

in the media

De Barra’s has played a major role in Irish life and media over these last forty years, including its role in the highly regarded 2013 documentary The Irish Pub.

live music

UPCOMING MUSIC

ceol le teacht

Have a look through our calendar for upcoming live music events, or contact us here for more information.

‘ALL THOSE MOMENTS WILL BE LOST IN TIME,

LIKE TEARS IN RAIN.’ 

past gigs

There’s Carnegie Hall, The Royal Albert, Sydney Opera House and then there’s De Barra’s.
Christy Moore, August 2003
All music is ‘Folk’ Music, I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song!
Louis Armstrong
It is the presence of an unlikely musical venue that makes Clonakilty truly special however, to cross the well worn threshold of the shy and rather retiring DeBarra’s Folk Club, is to enter into a world full of possibilities. The possibility that anyone, literally anyone, might ramble in off the street and do a few tunes.
Mark McDevitt, Irish Examiner