Fairyhouse Dublin – Easter Festival / DJs Mark McCabe and Kelly-Anne Byrne to headline

Fairyhouse Dublin – Easter Festival / DJs Mark McCabe and Kelly-Anne Byrne to headline

Hailed as two of Ireland’s best DJs, Kelly-Anne Byrne and Mark McCabe will headline the 2024 Fairyhouse Easter Festival at Fairyhouse Racecourse. 

Kelly-Anne Byrne will play Ladies Day on Saturday 30th March, while Mark McCabe will be on the decks on Easter Monday, 1st April for the Boylesports Irish Grand National. 

Ladies Day is all about getting the girls together and dressed up for a fun day out. Byrne will set the tone in the festival marquee all day, playing classics from the ‘80s through the ‘00s, and take to the decks for a 90 minute set after racing.

The festival marquee will be the hub of activity, where celebrated stylist Irene O’Brien will emcee for the day and give away spot prizes supplied by our new style partner Lyrath Estate. The Style Awards winner will be announced around 4:30pm, and registration will open at 12pm with a complimentary glass of bubbles for the first 100 ladies to enter. Registration will be in the champagne tent next to the festival marquee.

To commemorate Ireland’s most iconic race, the Boylesports Irish Grand National, Mark McCabe will play his first ever gig at Fairyhouse. 

The Irish Grand National will take place at 5pm with McCabe hitting the stage at the Final Fence Marquee at 6:30pm. DJ Lance West will get the party started in the final fence marquee all day from gates opening.

Hailing from Dublin, Kelly-Anne Byrne has earned a reputation as one of the finest selectors on Irish airwaves and one of Ireland’s most revered DJs. Her DJ career began twenty years ago when a large vinyl collection and a love of soul and disco prompted her to drop a mix tape into The Dice Bar. 

From that point on she has been entertaining crowds up and down the country with headline slots at all of Ireland’s festivals, including Electric Picnic, Longitude, Indiependence, Sea Sessions, Metropolis, All Together Now and Forbidden Fruit. 

Kelly-Anne appears regularly at Dublin’s top nightclubs Mother and The Workman’s Club. She has supported Chic, Dave Lee, Dimitri from Paris, Black Pumas, Paul Weller, Peter Hook, LCD Soundsystem and Mark Ronson. 

In February 2013 she began presenting The Saturday Weekender on Phantom 105.2 which earned her a nomination for Best Newcomer at the PPI Radio Awards. She also presented the Evening Show on TXFM for two years which also saw her nominated for Best Radio DJ in 2015 and The Beat Goes on on Saturdays and Sundays on Today FM (named ‘the Best Show on Irish Radio’ by Jim Carroll in The Ticket) for six years winning silver for Best Specialist Broadcaster in 2016. In 2021 she took The Beat Goes On to The Face Radio in Brooklyn, New York where it broadcasts worldwide. 

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