Femme Sesh 2026
Date: 7 March 2026
Venue: Sandinos, Main Room, Derry, Derry
Femme Sesh is back for International Women's Day. The line up is fantastic and keeping with our Derry/Donegal roots. It promises to be a night to remember, full of love and memories.
Femme Sesh is back for International Women's Day. The line up is fantastic and keeping with our Derry/Donegal roots. It promises to be a night to remember, full of love and memories. Our wonderful host is the incredible Abby Oliveira. This years Femme Sesh is dedicated to the Raytheon 9 women.
On Monday 12th January 2009, nine women – Roisin Barton, Roisin Bryce, Helen Deery, Betty Doherty, Goretti Horgan, Diana King, Jackie McKenna, Sharon Meenan and Julia Tor Rojo – occupied the Raytheon facility in Springtown in direct response to the Israeli bombing of a school in Gaza during ‘Operation Cast Lead’.
The women wanted to bring down the mainframe computer in the Raytheon offices because they knew from the trial of the Raytheon 9 men in 2008 that when the Derry mainframe came down, Raytheon’s plants across the UK and much of Europe were knocked out.
Heightened security since the 2006 men’s occupation meant they didn’t get near the mainframe, but the women stopped production for more than half a day and got an undertaking from the PSNI to investigate Raytheon for it complicity in war crimes.
More importantly, their occupation was the last straw for Raytheon. Less than a month after the occupation by the women, Raytheon wrote to InvestNI that, due to the continuing campaign by activists in the city, they were leaving!
Event takes place in Sandinos Main Room. Sat 7th of March
Doors at 7.
Tickets can be bought at http://www.skiddle.com Everyone welcome. This event sells out each year so buy early to avoid disappointment.
The line-up is as follows
The Henry Girls
TRAMP
Eileen Webster
Moya Sweeney
Tillie & Henderson
Amanda Healy
Annie Ward
RUÁ
Moya Sweeney
The Bluebelle Choir
Shazz White
Rachael Parkes
Jeanette Hutton
Leeanne Toland