Dropkick Murphys, with The Hold Steady, at Seisiún, The Stage at Suffolk Downs, Boston, Sept. 6, 2025.

That day one of the inaugural Seisiún festival of Irish music ended at all was no small triumph. With a thunderstorm warning turning into a heavy downpour late on Saturday afternoon, the Suffolk Downs grounds were cleared not long before Irish punk legends Stiff Little Fingers were due to take the stage, and it was a very long time before it was even known whether the music would resume at all.

The all-clear was finally given about two hours later via a network of social-media posts so infrequent and inconsistent across platforms that many attendees resorted to posting updates from Instagram in the comments of the still-unchanged official Facebook notice. (No announcement was actually

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