Welcome to the Feel Good Festival 2025!

Emerge from winter's retreat into spring's promise and let us awaken your senses and stir your soul with five weekends of sumptuous sounds throughout March.

Celebrating energy and renewal, the festival offers an exciting range of performances and activities designed to uplift, inspire and bring people together.

The festival gathers a diverse mix of artists, performers and visitors, fostering an inclusive environment that celebrates community, creativity and the joy of coming together. From choral, classical, folk, electronic, organ, rock and pop music as well as comedy, the Feel Good Festival, against the backdrop of Portico’s stunning architecture, will immerse attendees in a celebration of the senses.

The Feel Good Festival programme features: Nordic choral sensation Sjaella; New York’s finest chamber ensemble The Calidore String Quartet; Motown magic from the 60s and 70s with The Iconettes; Come on and Sing, Get Happy! workshop with Una McCann; DJ Reductio presents The Mashup Dance Event; organ recital with Peter Stevens from Westminster Cathedral; new and acclaimed local (NI) pop/rock band The Breeze; Sound Bath Journey with Tessa Ann; comedy with Paddy McDonnell: Dagger and 50 Years of Hits with Foster & Allen.

The Feel Good Festival is supported by Ards and North Down Borough Council and the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Feel Good Hospitality Offers

Throughout March

By the lively Fiddlers Green pub, five minutes walk from Portico, Roomz Portaferry is offering a 20% discount on B&B for all festival ticket holders when booking directly at [email protected] or call 07872 534 919.

Situated by the shore, just a five minutes walk from Portico, The Narrows is offering 20% off accommodation booked directly with [email protected] and 10% off food when you show your festival ticket. 

Enjoy!

hospitality offers