Editing Drogheda (section)

==Arts and entertainment==
===Music===
The town was selected to host [[Fleadh Cheoil|Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann]] for two years in 2018 and 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 March 2017 |title=Drogheda to host Fleadh Cheoil |work=[[Irish Independent]] |url=http://www.independent.ie/regionals/argus/localnotes/drogheda-to-host-fleadh-cheoil-35529952.html |access-date=11 July 2017 |archive-date=17 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517132918/http://www.independent.ie/regionals/argus/localnotes/drogheda-to-host-fleadh-cheoil-35529952.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Drogheda is home to two brass bands: Drogheda Brass Band and Lourdes Brass Band. In 2014, the town hosted the international summer [[Samba]] festival in which samba bands from around the world came to the town for three days of drumming and parades.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Noel Cosgrave |title=Drogheda Samba Festival |url=http://droghedasamba.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217035210/http://droghedasamba.com/ |archive-date=17 December 2014 |access-date=20 November 2014 |publisher=Droghedasamba.com |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

The composer and member of [[Aosdána]], [[Michael Holohan]], has lived in Drogheda since 1983. His compositions have been performed and broadcast both at home and internationally. Career highlights in Drogheda include ''Cromwell'' 1994, 'Drogheda 800' (RTECO, Lourdes Church); ''The Mass of Fire'' 1995, 'Augustinian 700' (RTÉ TV live broadcast); ''No Sanctuary'' 1997 with [[Nobel Laureate]] and poet [[Seamus Heaney]] (Augustinian Church); ''Remembrance Sunday Service'' and ''Drogheda Unification'' 600 (RTE TV live broadcast, St Peter's Church of Ireland) and two major concerts with The Boyne Valley Chamber Orchestra at [[Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann]] in 2018 and 2019.

Drogheda regularly hosts "Music at the Gate", a community-run event led by [[uilleann pipes|uilleann piper]] Darragh Ó Heiligh, next to Saint Laurence's Gate in the centre of Drogheda.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Music at the Gate – Drogheda {{!}} Music at Laurence's gate in Drogheda |url=https://www.musicatthegate.ie/ |access-date=2021-03-20 |language=en-GB |archive-date=22 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122104738/https://www.musicatthegate.ie/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Drogheda Arts Festival, a mix of music, live performance and street entertainment, is held over the May Bank Holiday weekend.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

===Visual arts===
October 2006 saw the opening of the [[Highlanes Gallery]], the town's first dedicated municipal art gallery. It is located in the former Franciscan Church and Friary on St. Laurence Street. The gallery houses Drogheda's municipal art collection, which dates from the 17th century.