DOZENS of acts are set to return to stages in Belfast city centre this month to perform as part of the Out To Lunch Festival 2022.
Serving up a feast of live music, comedy, theatre, film and spoken word, the festival, which returns with live events this year, is described as being the perfect antidote to the January lock-down blues.
Running from January 8-30, it will feature performances by eighties favourites The Blow Monkeys and award-winning poet Hollie McNish.
The festival will include more than 50 music and comedy shows with highlights including a gig by American musician BC Camplight, singer Hazel O’Connor and classical pianist Ruth McGinley, as well as comedy shows with Lucy Porter, Robin Ince and Cork-based Tadhg Hickey.
Belfast-based Junk Drawer will also take to the stage at the Deer's Head Music Hall on Thursday, January 27.
Featuring multi-instrumentalists and vocalists Stevie Lennox, Jake Lennox, Brian Coney and Rory Dee, Junk Drawer, which won a CQAF Creative Bursary for Music in 2020, has built a must-see-live reputation, playing stages all around Ireland.
The Swing Gals will also perform their set featuring everything from the Andrews Sisters to ABBA, and Diana Krall to the Sugababes when they take to the stage at The Black Box on Friday, January 21.
Further information is available at www.cqaf.com.
