Ralph McTell - Somewhere Down The Road, An Tain Arts Centre

What to Expect

Ralph McTell returns to An Tain Arts Centre on the Dundalk date of Somewhere Down The Road, billed as his final national tour of Ireland. The English folk singer and guitarist is best known for Streets of London, but the show draws on a catalogue built over more than five decades, and his live sets have always leaned as much on the storytelling between songs as on the songs themselves. He is a fingerstyle guitarist of the old school, and the format is intimate rather than amplified spectacle.

The Dundalk night sits in the middle of an Irish run that also takes in Navan, Castleblayney, Westport, Sligo, Omagh, Derry, Dublin’s National Concert Hall, Belfast, Armagh, Cork, Kilkenny, Ennis, Tralee, Waterford and Galway across October and November 2026. An Tain Arts Centre is based in the former Tain Theatre in Dundalk’s Town Hall on Crowe Street, with a 350 seat main auditorium, and it is the venue that has hosted McTell on previous Irish visits. Ticket prices are not published on the tour listings checked, so book through the An Tain box office.

Good to Know

• Sunday 25 October 2026 at An Tain Arts Centre, Crowe Street, Dundalk
• Billed as Ralph McTell’s farewell tour of Ireland
• Neither the ticket price nor the start time is published on the listings checked, so confirm both with the box office on 042 9332332
• Booking through the An Tain Arts Centre box office and website
• Seated show in the 350 seat main theatre

Getting There

An Tain Arts Centre is in the Town Hall on Crowe Street, right in the centre of Dundalk and a few minutes’ walk from Market Square and Clanbrassil Street. Dundalk Clarke railway station is about 15 minutes on foot to the west, on the Dublin to Belfast line, and Bus Eireann and Matthews coaches stop on the Long Walk and Carrickmacross Road. Drivers coming on the M1 should take junction 16 or 18 and use the Long Walk shopping centre car park or the on street spaces around Crowe Street and Park Street.