Live Music Nights at Ocean Sands Hotel, Enniscrone

Ocean Sands Hotel and Spa in Enniscrone runs live music in its bar most Friday and Saturday nights, one of the anchor weekend fixtures in a seaside town with several venues competing for the summer crowd. The hotel overlooks the Atlantic and its beachfront location makes a weekend music night a natural pairing with a day on Enniscrone’s Blue Flag beach.

What to Expect

Weekend listings for the hotel show live music booked into the bar on Friday and Saturday nights as a standing weekly feature, alongside its wider entertainment programme which also runs karaoke midweek and bingo and DJ nights earlier in the week. The bar draws a mixed crowd of hotel guests and locals, with performers generally playing covers and singalong sets suited to a hotel bar rather than a formal concert setting. Ocean Sands also books occasional bigger seated concerts through the autumn and winter months, stepping up from its regular weekend bar music to named touring acts, so it is worth checking their listings directly if a specific date matters. The hotel sits a short walk from Gilroy’s Bar and the Diamond Coast Hotel, both of which also run their own live music nights, making a weekend in Enniscrone one of the more music-heavy stretches in the county outside Sligo town itself.

Good to Know

• Date: every Friday and Saturday, next date Friday, 7 August 2026
• Time: evening, generally from around 9:30pm
• Venue: Ocean Sands Hotel and Spa, Enniscrone
• Price: free entry to the bar
• Recurrence: weekly, Friday and Saturday nights

Getting There

Enniscrone is on the N59 coast road, around a forty minute drive southwest of Sligo town. There is no rail service to the town, so a car or local bus is the practical way to travel. There is more to see in Enniscrone and across Co. Sligo.