Vantastival 2019 will take place from Friday 31st May to Sunday 2nd June at Beaulieu House and Gardens, Drogheda.  Both 3-day and 2-day camping options are available and the Christmas Special offers a discount of €25 per adult ticket. 2019 will be the 10th anniversary of Vantastival and the first tier of tickets - the Christmas Special  - go on sale this Friday at 9.30am.

“Each ticket entitles one adult to full festival access plus camping. The 2-day camping option allows festival access and camping on the Saturday and Sunday - there is no Friday/Saturday 2-day camping option. You can also purchase tickets for your children in advance for 2019. The full list of ticket prices and info can be found at vantastival.com/tickets, where you can also read our Terms and Conditions.

Please note:

Due to new GDPR regulations regarding the saving of personal data, we are unable to send out a pre-sale option to our loyal ticket buyers this year. However, if you can send us evidence of purchasing weekend camping tickets online in at least 3 of the past 5 years, we will offer you a head start on availing of the Christmas price. Please email your booking confirmation numbers and purchaser email address to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before 6pm on Thursday 29th November.”

This year will not have open submission for acts wishing to play. Instead the organisers will be curating a special line-up that reflects 10 year of the festival. Hundreds of up-and-coming bands have played Vantastival over the past nine years, many of which have gone on to achieve great success at home and abroad. The open submissions will be back next year.

“We'll be bringing back some of your favourite acts from previous Vantastivals, as well as introducing you to some newbies who have never played before.”

Christmas Special

3 day camping (Fri-Sun)

€105

2 day camping

(Sat-Sun)

€80

Full Price tickets

3 day camping (Fri-Sun)

€130

2 day camping (Sat-Sun)

€105 

Kids' tickets

Child weekend

(2 or 3 day)

€12.50

Child single ticket

€7.50

Oi Va Voi talk immigration, hope and survival on new single ‘Arrival’. The band are back from their nine year hiatus with a live show at the Islington Assembly Hall on Monday. “The theme of immigrant experience is always present at some level in our music, and here we wanted to focus in on the moment of a person's arrival into a new, unfamiliar country.” says founding member Josh Breslaw “The great bank of trombones at the opening is all of that foreboding and importance about what might lie in wait. Then Steve's vocal begins to ask the questions of this new land, with his searching clarinet joining in as the momentum builds in the background. Despite the difficulty of the journey, one line of hope and determination repeats itself: "I'll pace the walkway of my life, I am no longer alone"; and when the song explodes into its driving final section, all fast and heavy and electric, we still hear this soft line repeating in the background. We always believe in a commonality between people, and Arrival calls it out loudly.”

Oi Va Voi have long been standard bearers of musical exploration and artistic integrity. Whilst the sound has developed and the personnel has evolved, the vision has remained the same. The band mix subtle, dynamic rhythms and western melodic sensibility with the folk music of their Jewish and East European heritage and deliver it live with a trademark energy and dynamism. From their earliest days Oi Va Voi have managed to resist categorisation while remaining internationally accessible. 

As their journey resumes with a new album and a dynamic, expanded live show, the Oi Va Voi sound of 2018 is more nuanced than before - the songs are more worldly, and carry a greater social urgency. The vibrant energy remains though, along with a unifying and heartfelt message of our common humanity in a world which seems increasingly polarised.

For their forthcoming album, Memory Drop, founding members Josh Breslaw (drums) and Steve Levi (clarinet/vocals), along with trumpeter Dave Orchant and guitarist Michael Vinaver, make up the core songwriting quartet. Also prominent on the album is the spellbinding, virtuosic violinist Anna Phoebe, who has appeared live with Oi Va Voi while building a successful solo career.

Since the early days with KT Tunstall to the last record with Rudimental’s Bridgette Amofah, Oi Va Voi has also featured a female guest singer, and the latest line-up includes 6 songs from stunning new vocalist Zohara. “She has a spellbinding voice,” says Josh. “When we first heard her we sent her a track and she sent it straight back with a vocal that blew us away. So we sent her another track – and then another.”