Earley's Bar - Weekly Trad Session (Friday)

Earley’s Bar in Sligo town runs a Friday night traditional music session, one of a run of open sessions across the town centre that has also featured as part of the annual Sligo St Patrick’s Festival trad trail. The bar is listed on live music aggregator sites as a regular Friday night trad venue alongside the town’s other well known session pubs.

What to Expect

The Friday session at Earley’s has been logged starting from around 9:30pm, with fiddles, flutes and box players making up the usual line-up in keeping with the informal, walk-in format found across Sligo’s trad pubs. Earley’s has also hosted an open trad session as part of the Sligo St Patrick’s Festival’s dedicated trad trail, a sign the bar is an established part of the town’s traditional music circuit rather than an occasional booking. As with most pub sessions, the exact musicians and start time can shift slightly week to week, so it is worth calling ahead or checking the bar’s social media if a visit is built specifically around the music. Earley’s sits within Sligo town centre, an easy walk from Thomas Connolly’s and The Harp Tavern, both of which run their own Friday sessions on the same night, making it possible to move between two or three pubs over the course of a single Friday evening without needing transport. Locals treat this cluster of town centre sessions as one of the more reliable ways to catch live trad music without planning around a specific festival date.

Good to Know

• Date: Friday nights, next on Friday, 7 August 2026
• Time: from around 9:30pm
• Venue: Earley’s Bar, Sligo town
• Price: free entry
• Recurrence: weekly, Friday nights

Getting There

Earley’s is in Sligo town centre, within easy walking distance of the bus and rail station and the main town centre car parks. There is more to see in Sligo and across Co. Sligo.