Damien Rice Legendary Irish troubadour Damien Rice returns to Australia to play theatre dates around the country this May. The beloved singer-songwriter, whose emotionally wrought songs defined a generation of…
“A remarkable album” - Songlines “Joyous” - Uncut “A cavern of delights… A labyrinthine treasure trove” - The Irish Times “They remind me of my first days at ‘Les Cousins’…
Iconic singer-songwriter PATTY GRIFFIN returns for highly anticipated Australian shows. Attracting a cult-following with her intimately passionate performance, she tells heartfelt stories with her vivid, powerful vocal. A starkly beautiful…
Morgan MacIntyre and Gemma Doherty areSaint Sister, an Irish electro-folk duo who are part of a new wave of youth activism in Ireland since the "take back the city" protest in…
Ireland has a rich music history with the mellifluous sounds of Celtic folk music still entertaining audiences today. But Saint Sister are re-interpreting the genre — they're an electro-folk duo and they've…
It will shock no one that the two women who make up Saint Sister are not sisters. (And if it does, wait until you hear about the Righteous and Walker…
Beloved Irish singer-songwriter DAMIEN RICE has announced his long-awaited return to Australia, taking in Sydney’s City Recital Hall on Friday 1 February, Brisbane’s The Tivoli on Monday 4 February, Hobart’s…
20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR OF HIS SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM + POSES - “His prodigious talent and music appeals to smooching couples, beardy musos, middle-aged women and billionaire football club owners alike.…
Today Irish folk-pop duo Saint Sister reveal the video for their single ‘You Never Call’. Filmed on two sides of the Atlantic, the video beautifully depicts a relationship complicated by…
CHUGG ENTERTAINMENT & GAYNOR CRAWFORD PRESENT “Their haunting performance is impeccable… Masters at creating atmosphere, they command the room with near-perfect silence achieved during Corpses.” – The Irish Times “…dripping with…
A wonderful **** review for Blair Dunlop's album in RnR Magazine in the UK 'Blair combines melancholy with a great turn of phase and no little wit"
Lúnasa described by The New York Times as the 'hottest Irish acoustic group on the planet' return to Australia to play exclusively at the Irish Festival Australia in Sydney this November.…
After stunning fans at Port Fairy Folk Festival and Blue Mountains Music Festival last week, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker have released their new album, Seedlings All. Watch their stunning video to ‘Chicago’…
★★★★½ The Sydney Morning Herald Rodrigo y Gabriela Review
Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker sing beautifully drawn miniatures full of a melancholy reminiscent of early-70's folk singers like Sandy Denny, June Tabor and Shirley Collins. But when the the duo…
NOTES FROM AN ISLAND (Gilded Lily Records/Planet) ★★★★☆ Blair Dunlop doesn't advertise it but his father, Ashley Hutchings, was one of the most influential musicians in the English folk boom…
On the eve of his sophomore Australian tour dates Blair Dunlop is set to release his fourth studio album ‘Notes From An Island’. Described as his heartbreak album exploring the…
Ahead of Blair Dunlop's second visit to Australia, he took the time to chat with Chris Familton about his new album's blend of English folk and American country music and the role that…
Marking his third solo album, singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has released Between Two Shores out today via Anti-. Following up 2015’s GRAMMY nominated Didn’t He Ramble, and his 2012 solo debutRhythm and Repose, the ten-track collection was produced by Hansard himself…
By the time you read this the new album by Blair Dunlop, Notes From An Island, will have been completed – he was midway through recording it when we spoke
Touring Australia this March Remote Control and Rough Trade are excited to announce Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker’s new album Seedlings All will be released on Friday 23 March. To…
The 500-odd metre ramble from the Irish Whiskey Museum to St Stephen’s Green feels undistinguished under a granitic Dublin sky. Impatient locals weighed down by winter coats zigzag amid tourists…
The story has been told many times of how Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, the Mexican guitar duo were unearthed over a decade ago while busking on the streets of…
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker award winning folk duo from Britain will have their debut Australian performances in March 2018. Performing at MODERN FOLK! FROM BRITAIN at the Thornbury Theatre…
Blair Dunlop, the award-winning British singer, songwriter and guitarist returns to Australia in 2018. Blair will be performing headline shows in Sydney and Cronulla and will feature at this years…
AN EVENING OF MODERN FOLK DIRECT FROM THE PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Blair Dunlop is a captivating vocalist, phenomenal guitarist and writer of songs of the deepest lyrical and musical maturity.…
“In your face acoustic rock guitar sex” -- Clash Music “… a night that has been filled with nothing but the highest standard of musicianship, and is as entertaining as it…
The early bird tickets for the 2018 Port Fairy Folk Festival have just gone on sale and the festival has just announced a bunch of new artists on the lineup. This time…
SET FOR RELEASE JANUARY 19, 2018 ON ANTI- DEBUTS FIRST SONG “TIME WILL BE THE HEALER” Marking his third solo album, singer-songwriter Glen Hansard will release Between Two Shores on…
LAST time she was here she was support for Glen Hansard and the Frames following on from her departure from Damien Rice’s band, but for this visit as part of…
Vivid Live Lisa Hannigan Drama Theatre, Opera House, May 30 ★★★★ There is folk music at the root of everything that Lisa Hannigan does, but folk music is not really…
John Smith, an English folk guitarist and singer from Devon, was the support act for Lisa Hannigan . His name suggests a degree of anonymity, and he was quick to…
Lisa Hannigan is some kind of wonderful. She’s enjoyed an incredible musical journey – three studio albums down, collaborations with the likes of Glen Hansard, Damien Rice, Herbie Hancock –…
Lisa Hannigan doesn’t endear herself particularly to roadies. The Irish singer and songwriter, a multi-instrumentalist, likes to feature a harmonium in her set when she can, a piece of equipment…
Lisa Hannigan is doing another Sydney show! (Straight after the first one.) Tickets are on sale now here: http://bit.ly/2qeh332
Irish songstress Lisa Hannigan today reveals that she will play national Australian tour dates this May, adding to her already announced appearance at Vivid LIVE in Sydney. Lisa will take in…
“…I believe that in order to achieve your goals, you have to follow your dreams. I believe that you have to create new opportunities and learn from them.” Rodriguez “…A…
ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ ANNOUNCES DEBUT AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES THIS MARCH Presented by Gaynor Crawford & Chugg Entertainment For Immediate Release: Wednesday 18th January, 10am AEDT "The astonishing 28-year-old Cuban-born piano virtuoso…
"I'm so sorry, can you give me a minute, she's woken up!" Dori Freeman breaks off mid-sentence and runs to check on her three-year-old daughter then rushing back to the phone…
There was no escaping music when Dori Freeman was growing up in Galax, Virginia. She has musicians on both sides of the family going back generations. When they weren't playing…
New Album Goodnight City out now on Inertia Music "Wainwright’s alto sends the songs into another realm." Associated Press "Upliftingly powerful." The Guardian "The best type of typical Wainwright - hilarious, dark…
NEW ALBUM GOODNIGHT CITY RELEASED 11 NOVEMBER “Wainwright moves amid prettily finger-picked folk-rock and more eccentric arrangements” – NY Times “…taking music and wringing from it a startling wealth of…
Acclaimed Scottish singer Eddi Reader returns to Australia in March 2017 for an extensive tour that marks a highpoint in her towering career. “One of the great voices in British…
Americana rising artist Dori Freeman will then return to Australia in March 2017 for a string of festival and headline concerts. Dori Freeman has a perfect country voice: languid and…
Having released her seventh studio record, Goodnight City, last Friday — which we described as something "almost impossible not to go back and hit 'repeat'" on — we asked Martha Wainwright to…
Martha Wainwright assures Anthony Carew that she was not a "child prodigy" and chats about growing up in a family that writes songs about each other. "I don't have very much…
“…delicate but not flimsy, unaffected with weariness or age but not childlike, and all kinds of pretty, like a young Tift Merritt” Bernard Zuel Sydney Morning Herald "A strong contender…
Martha Wainwright’s first three albums run the gamut from intense confessionals and tasteful torch songs to electropop. Here, she paints from an even wider musical palette on a single album,…
Coming from a famous family has its pressures as well as its advantages. But North American folk-rock singer Martha Wainwright has successfully navigated both, becoming more comfortable in her skin…
Album opener Around The Bend is the best type of typical Wainwright - hilarious, dark and gloriously delivered. Throughout the rest of the album this style remains; satisfying the already faithful while…
Dori Freeman AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE “Great range and incredible emotional nuance” NPR “Dori Freeman's arrival is a blessing for us all.” No Depression Breakout Americana artist Dori Freeman makes her Australian debut at Sydney…
Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright makes her Twilight at Taronga presented by ANZ debut to close the 2017 series, with support from Melbourne duo Oh Pep! With an undeniable voice…
As we're shown to our seats, that distinctive Irish tin whistle emanates from the sound system to transport us directly to The Emerald Isle. Shane Howard graces the stage in trio…
Glen Hansard's Didn't He Ramble tour had its second date at Adelaide's Her Majesty's Theatre where the Irish poet and singer took the stage with an 11-piece band. Highlights from the show…
Glen Hansard treats audience to great night of blistering passion and tall stories – Daily Telegraph
A BAND on tour encounters lots of “interesting” things, Oscar-winning Irish troubadour Glen Hansard told his adoring audience in the packed-out Sydney Opera House concert hall. It might be seeing…
If Glen Hansard is basking in the feeling of having all but made the Opera House his Sydney home-away-from-home, having played there in various guises his past few Australian tours, he…
Didn't He Ramble? Did he what! Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard seemed to use the title of his latest album as an instruction manual for his Wednesday night show at the…
A Modern Day Celtic Odyssey A crew including a Writer, two Musicians (Glen Hansard), an Artist and a Stonemason embark on the Camino not on land, but by sea, in…
When Irish songsmith and sometime actor Glen Hansard lands in Australia to tour his second solo record he will do so without ego or excessive dolour. Or at least that's what he…
Irish singer Glen Hansard finds inspiration in many things, but he had never considered rowing a boat at sea for five weeks off the coast of Spain as a way…
Glen Hansard (Ireland) talks Didn’t He Ramble, songwriting, performing & his upcoming Australian tour Earlier this year it was announced that Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard would be returning to Australia…
Prolific Australian songwriter Shane Howard, admired and respected for his integrity and commitment to music will join Glen Hansard as a special guest in Melbourne at the Palais Theatre on October 26th performing…
A special Friday treat for everyone, watch the full live concert of Glen Hansard Montreux Jazz Live. This makes us so excited for his bands October tour. Tickets for his…
‘Having Glen Hansard at sea was like bringing Shergar to plough a field’ A seafaring crew from west Kerry brought the musician on board for the final leg of their…
On the songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: "Cohen's work is so finely chiselled, as a sculpture it's very finely hewn, and Dylan's is very roughly hewn ... they…
Barb Jungr flashed a don’t-mess-with-me glare, scanned the audience’s faces across the Powerhouse’s intimate black-walled venue like an enraged school-teacher sniffing out a culprit. And, in an instant gained everyone’s…
“...sincerity, compassion and conviction ...tied at the hip to his craft, Hansard delivered an engaging graduate-level course in the art of being a master singer-songwriter.” Chicago Tribune “Listening to Hansard…
"Barb Jungr affirms her reputation as a consummate Dylan interpreter with a collection of Bob's political and spiritual narratives augmented here by similar material from the pen of his contemporary,…
Listen in to The Young'uns on Triple R (3RRR 102.7FM) Brian Wise show Off The Record. Scroll through to 1.53 http://ondemand.rrr.org.au/grid/20160213105516
THE YOUNG’UNS STUMBLED ONTO A SECRET SEA SHANTY CLUB IN A PUB… THE REST HIS HISTORY.
photo credit: Danny Clinch / click for hi-res version photo credit: Danny Clinch / click for hi-res version DIDN’T HE RAMBLE RELEASED TO WIDESPREAD CRITICAL ACCLAIM “The central ingredient remains…
When they were little, the Wainwright sisters shared a dad. All siblings share their parents, half-siblings more so, but theirs was an extreme case: they shared Loudon Wainwright III with…
Not many gigs begin with an out-of-tune chord that totally unravels a song, or finish with a five-year-old brandishing a foam bass guitar. Both things happen here. “We couldn’t play…
I preface this by saying that the Buckleys are a big deal in my family. My mother, a self-described “original” Jeff Buckley fan, has instilled many values in me, and…
the music he presented in his intimate festival show on Friday still had an almost orchestral feel, thanks to the thoughtful arrangements and layered instrumental textures; not to mention Mac Con…
Although it doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, Colm Mac Con Iomaire’s name will be known to Australian roots music aficionados through his indelible association with two of Ireland’s best-known…
Glorious harmonies, waspish wit, powerful songs and relentless banter....irresistible" ★★★★★ The Guardian “Great singers and very very funny” Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2 “…a superb live act…beguiling audiences with irrepressible…
“#1 Album 2014” Alex Monaghan, The Living Tradition, Folkworld “A high energy cocktail that defies easy categorization…accordion trad meets banjo bluegrass with a contemporary rhythm section that takes many a jubilant…
Didn't He Ramble will be released Friday, September 18, and available to stream in full at Rolling Stone Australia
Didn’t He Ramble, the second solo outing from acclaimed singer songwriter Glen Hansard, will be released September 18 via Anti- Records. The new album is his first in over three…
New Album And Now The Weather (Agus Anois An Aimsir), out now (Plateau) distributed by Planet in Australia. Having sold out Irish shows in Dublin, Cork, Galway, sold out Frames…
Whilst in Australia with the production A State Of Grace: The Music of Tim and Jeff Buckley, Martha Wainwright has found time in her very full schedule to return to…
The world premiere event A State of Grace celebrates their brilliant, complicated lives and music, bringing together six peerless singers — and musicians with an intimate understanding of the music…
Richard Bona was born in the Cameroonian bush and showed musical preciousness at a very early age.
Although the riffs and rhythms may come straight from the hard-rock handbook, they are rabidly infectious and executed with exemplary precision. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/rodrigo-and-gabrielas-instrumental-sounds-and-audience-grow-20150410-1mi4h9.html#ixzz3YCbkHKc1
Vivid Sydney presents direct from the Melbourne Jazz Festival in association with Gaynor Crawford Presents RICHARD BONA Gaynor Crawford Presents direct from the Melbourne Jazz Festival in association with Vivid…
It took a long time for Australians to see the whole Richard Thompson. It was worth the wait, and worth all of the three standing ovations.
Review Daily Telegraph: Richard Thompson with his Electric Trio shows he is the ultimate guitar hero
It’s reassuring for a shameless Thompson fan like me that no matter how long it’s been between gigs, the rock folk hero always stays true to what matters — the…
There is always an edge to Richard Thompson's work: only the keenness varies. Whether that edge is bittersweet, sarcastic, witty or devastating, it juts from his songs like his perennial…
It was billed as the Richard Thompson Electric Trio but this concert began with the former Fairport Convention folk-rocker playing solo on acoustic guitar — albeit the loudest “acoustic” set…
In a gesture to fans that too much Richard Thompson is never enough, the singer-songwriter/guitarist extraordinaire assumed the role of opening act on Wednesday night to his own concert later…
'Economics be damned': legendary guitarist Richard Thompson on his first Australian tour
Those who have followed Ruthie Foster’s eclectic musical history know that she can burn down any stage with her combustible blend of soul, blues, rock, folk
and gospel.
Mexican guitar greats mix rock and flamenco. RODRIGO and Gabriela is a Mexican acoustic guitar duo whose music is influenced by a number of genres including nuevo flamenco, rock and…
Making Music For Very Important People: In considering what they wanted to say with their fifth studio album, Rodrigo Y Gabriela turned to some of their personal heroes for inspiration,…
Ruthie Foster has been nominated with her third straight GRAMMY nomination for Best Blues Album. PROMISE OF A BRAND NEW DAY, produced by Meshell Ndegeocello, follows nominations for THE TRUTH…