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Live Gallery: First Aid Kit/ Nick Mulvey/ Billie Marten, Collins Barracks, Dublin, 21/08/2023

On Monday 21 of August, Swedish folk duo Johanna and Klara Soderberg also known as First Aid Kit played the first of the Wider than Pictures series at Collins Barracks.…

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Gallery and set-list: The High Kings / Josh Okeefe – Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre, Kilkenny 05.08.2023

Trad/folk group The High Kings graced the stage of Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre for the first time. The band have been together for 15 years and the set-list spanned that to the…

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News: Declan O’Rourke announces solo Irish tour with an array of special guest

With an album scheduled for the making in 2024, the Dublin born songwriter will take to the road this October and November, bringing audiences an airing of his first new…

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Live Review: A Beautiful Day Out (The Levellers / Ferocious Dog / Peat And Diesel / The Lovely Eggs / Bar Stool Preachers / Jess Silk) – Millenium Square, Leeds 22.07.2023

The Levellers curated ‘A Beautiful Day Out’ hadn’t forwarded the memo onto the heavens as it was a continuously grey, wet and drizzly Saturday afternoon in Leeds, but the swathes…

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Album Review: Fabiano Do Nascimento – Das Nuvens : New Fusion music for the heart and soul

If you know anything of guitarist/composer Fabiano do Nascimento’s significant back catalogue you will be expecting his new album ‘Das Nuvens‘ to be impressive. Each release from his debut ‘Dança…

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Track: Black Water County – The Only Life Worth Living

Hailing from the South West and now celebrating a decade making music together, the award-winningBlack Water County have released a new single, ‘The Only Life Worth Living’, which is the…

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Track: Gemma Hayes Returns With New Single ‘High & Low’

Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes beautiful new single ‘High & Low’ sees her return with her first release in nine years. The Mercury Prize nominee’s last release was the critically acclaimed album Bones &…

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Gallery: The Swell Season / Leah Moran – Vicar Street, Dublin 13.07.2023

On Thursday, July 13th, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, or The Swell Season, took to Vicar Street to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their Academy Award winning musical film ‘Once’.…

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Track: Bishopskin – Stella Splendens

Had anyone told me that the catchiest song of Summer 2023 would be a postmodern folk take on a 14th century hymn, complete with lyrics in Medieval Latin, I would…

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Album Review: Me Lost Me – RPG : folk music of the future now

Folk music for today, what’s that then? Playing the old songs in new ways? Playing new songs in the old ways? Maybe the one tradition that’s certain is that the…

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