Kila are an Irish folk music/world music group. They were formed in 1987 in the Irish Language secondary school, Colaiste Eoin in Co. Dublin. Colm Snodaigh joined the band in 1988 for Kila's first festival appearance at the European Youth Music Festival, which was held in Bonn in Germany.

In 1991, Colm Mac Con Iomaire and Dave Odlum left Kila to join The Frames, an Irish rock band. In the same year, Dee Armstrong joined the band as a replacement for Colm Mac Con Iomaire and Eoin O'Brien replaced Dave Odlum. There have been many chahnges since however they have travelled the world for the past ten years and have played at many, many festivals including Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures, Electric Picnic, Womadelaide, Glastonbury, Faile an Dailin, St Chartier and The Stockholm Water Festival. Their music is widely distributed around the world both physically through their website and digitally through iTunes. They all compose, arrange and conjure up the many different sonic "colours" that have become their musical trademark.