‘Courage’, is a new project that delivers uplifting, inspiring performances from brilliant artists to the public during the COVID-19 crisis. Courage will beam these performances directly into homes across the nation, from a number of iconic cultural locations. Our goal is to provide essential cultural output during this period. Music collapses distance in this time of isolation, it gives us courage, consolation and brings us together. Performances will take place on Tuesday and Thursday nights and will be made available worldwide, free of charge, thanks to the support of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Intel and RTÉ. Courage will also be shown on RTÉ2 from the 7th of May every Thursday at 23:30.
Speaking of the project Minister Madigan said: “We know culture plays a hugely positive role in our collective wellbeing. The performances that will take place during the Courage programme are sure to raise plenty of spirits and can be enjoyed as people stay at home. It is in addition to the support that the Government is already providing to artists and those working in the arts and cultural sectors.”
Tune in on Tuesday at 8PM via Other Voices’ YouTube + Facebook Live and RTÉ.ie to watch the show. Music for the head and the heart.
‘Courage’, is a new project that delivers uplifting, inspiring performances from brilliant artists to the public during the COVID-19 crisis. Courage will beam these performances directly into homes across the nation, from a number of iconic cultural locations. Our goal is to provide essential cultural output during this period. Music collapses distance in this time of isolation, it gives us courage, consolation and brings us together. Performances will take place on Tuesday and Thursday nights and will be made available worldwide, free of charge, thanks to the support of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Intel and RTÉ. Courage will also be shown on RTÉ2 from the 7th of May every Thursday at 23:30.
Speaking of the project Minister Madigan said: “We know culture plays a hugely positive role in our collective wellbeing. The performances that will take place during the Courage programme are sure to raise plenty of spirits and can be enjoyed as people stay at home. It is in addition to the support that the Government is already providing to artists and those working in the arts and cultural sectors.”
Tune in on Thursday at 8PM via Other Voices’ YouTube + Facebook Live and RTÉ.ie to watch the show. Music for the head and the heart.
Following on from the fantastic global response to the first ‘Courage’ live stream with Ye Vagabonds, we will continue this Tuesday evening with Sorcha Richarson and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.
Live Streams start this Thursday 23rd of April at 8pm
Watch Worldwide via youtube, facebook live and RTE.IE
New TV Series Starts Thursday 7th May at 11:30pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ PLAYER
Other Voices is delighted to present ‘Courage’, a new project that delivers uplifting, inspiring performances from brilliant artists to the public during the COVID-19 crisis. Courage will beam these performances directly into homes across the nation, from a number of iconic cultural locations. Our goal is to provide essential cultural output during this period. Music collapses distance in this time of isolation, it gives us courage, consolation and brings us together. Performances will take place on Tuesday and Thursday nights and will be made available worldwide, free of charge, thanks to the support of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Intel and RTÉ. Courage will also be shown on RTÉ2 from the 7th of May every Thursday at 23:30.
Speaking today, Minister Madigan said: “We know culture plays a hugely positive role in our collective wellbeing. The performances that will take place during the Courage programme are sure to raise plenty of spirits and can be enjoyed as people stay at home. It is in addition to the support that the Government is already providing to artists and those working in the arts and cultural sectors.”
The live stream will begin on Thursday 23rd of April at 8PM with the highly acclaimed multi-award winning folk duo Ye Vagabonds from Whelan’s.
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THURSDAY 23rd APRIL – YE VAGABONDS
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Tune in on Thursday at 8PM via Other Voices’ YouTube + Facebook Live and RTÉ.ie to watch the show. Music for the head and the heart.
ABOUT YE VAGABONDS
Brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn grew up playing music together around their hometown of Carlow. After moving to Dublin in 2012, they quickly became a staple of the live music and session scene in Ireland, playing their own original songs as well as folk songs from Ireland, Scotland, England and America. In October 2017 they launched their debut, self-titled album to great acclaim. “Ye Vagabonds” comprises of harmony rich folk music, influenced by Irish traditional music, Appalachian singing, and the 1960’s folk revival. It includes ten mellow tracks weaved with thoughtful lyrics, thickly layered with strings and droning harmonium. Their second album ‘The Hare’s Lament’ was released on 22nd March 2019 to huge critical acclaim. In 2019 they won the BBC Radio Two Folk Award for Best Traditional Track, and they swept the boards at the RTE Radio One Folk Awards where they won Best Traditional Track, Best Group, and Best Album.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Safety is our top priority. In order to comply with the protection of public health, our project has been designed to minimise travel, contact and proximity for performers and crew. We are using the same protocols as film and television crews who continue to work and provide essential public service during this pandemic. This means using rigorous procedures and processes that comply fully with the Irish Government’s regulations and restrictions.
Courage has been curated by the team who produce Other Voices and is funded by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and by Intel. We are grateful to the artists and crews who have agreed to participate in the project at this critical time for Ireland.
The new performances will be filmed in strictly controlled locations which includes Whelan’s and more to be announced soon.
Because of public health regulations there can be no live audience in the locations where we film the artists, and the only people in the locations will be artists and strictly essential crew. NO LIVE AUDIENCE.
This project is made possible with the support of the Government of Ireland, the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Intel and and RTÉ
“Lilla Vargen is on the cusp of something important.” – Clash
“Lilla Vargen has that rare ability to emote, educate and transport.” – Wonderland
“Expect more great things from her in 2020.” – The Independent
“Lilla Vargen is setting a new standard for the modern pop singer/songwriter.” – Atwood Magazine
Ireland’s fastest rising new artist, Lilla Vargen announces her new rescheduled tour dates for October 2020, which includes upgraded venues in London and Dublin, plus a new live date in Belfast. Tickets at available at lillavargen.co.uk
With over 20 million streams to her credit already and 7 Top 15 New Music Friday placements on Spotify, Lilla Vargen’s most recent relesase ‘Cold’ has had over half million streams already and was accompanied by a video directed by the award-winning Irish director Locky and starred Jordanne Jones. WATCH HERE.
Hailing from Ballymena, Lilla Vargen left for London to follow her calling in music. She writes songs rich with emotion and empathy, a quality that builds a connection with a following that suffered or survived the issues that she explores. Full of poise and passion yet never overstated, her vocal illuminates the heart of those stories. With a big year ahead of her, Lilla is making quite the impression. Early tracks such as ‘Why Wait’, Solitary, and ‘Downtown’ have accumulated millions of streams, while a major European tour last year as guest to Dermot Kennedy included two huge Dublin shows at the 3Arena plus two nights at London’s Eventim Apollo.
Her new headline dates are:
OCTOBER
12th – Brighton, Komedia
13th – London, La Fayette (upgraded venue)
17th – Edinburgh, The Mash House
20th – Belfast, Voodoo *NEW DATE*
21st – Dublin, Whelan’s (upgraded venue)
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MCD proudly presents
DARWIN DEEZ
PLAYING HIS SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM IN FULL
plus support
_ Main Venue _
Darwin Deez announces headline March 2021 show at Whelan’s
Born in North Carolina to Maher Baba disciples, Darwin grew up on a diet of Weezer, Nirvana and Toto, and started his first band with friends at age 12.
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MCD proudly presents
STOMPTOWN BRASS
>> LIVE AT OPIUM >>
Following a blistering national tour last Autumn, 8-piece Urban Street Funk band STOMPTOWN BRASS are back with a brand new show to kick off the 2020 festival season!
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MCD proudly presents
LIME CORDIALE
plus support
_ Main Venue _
The band on everyone’s ‘must see’ list this year is Sydney based outfit Lime Cordiale. Brothers Oli and Louis Leimbach who are responsible for delivering hook-laden jams
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Aiken Promotions present
STEVE HUGHES
ARE YOU SERIOUS
plus support
_ Main Venue _
Returning to the UK & Ireland for his first full length tour in six years, Australian comedy legend Steve Hughes is known the world over for his hard hitting, take no prisoners stand up.
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MCD proudly presents
SOPHIE DOYLE RYDER
plus support
^ Upstairs ^
Sophie Doyle Ryder is Irish, born in Dublin. She is a pop singer and a songwriter. Sophie has sang her entire life, with inspiration from artists like Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande.
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MCD proudly presents
LYDIA FORD
plus guest
^ Upstairs ^
Lydia Ford is a pop artist originally from Mayo, Ireland. She writes dreamy and sincere pop songs that balance light, airy musicality with deeper and more introspective lyrics.
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TERTIA
plus support
^ Upstairs ^
With her debut album penned for release in May 2020, Tertia (tersh-a) is a 21-year old multi instrumental artist, songwriter and producer. Teaching herself the piano as a toddler, she had written her first song by the age of 6 (although her music style has come along since then).
“Sheridan is a creative project based in Dublin and led by Guitarist/Songwriter Gavin Sheridan. Featuring some of the best up and coming session musicians in Dublin, Sheridan are in the process of writing and releasing new and exciting material while also honing their live set. Sheridan’s debut single ‘The Hits Keep Comin’ was released on the 18th of November on all platforms. The release of the groups second single ‘Hold Me Down’ on February 21st is highly anticipated in the build to a co-headline show with ‘Blue Luna’ in Whelans on the 31st of March.
Blue Luna are a 4 piece acoustic original band from Dublin. The band have a folk influenced sound similar to the likes of ‘The Mouldy Peaches’ and ‘The Shins’. Blue luna have dazzled crowds in venues such as The Grand Social, The Sugar Club and Whelan’s. The band have just released their new single ‘Soothe’ on Spotify on January 22nd. Having all graduated from BIMM Dublin,the band consists of guitarist Derek Byrne, main vocalist/lyricist Joanna Burns, backing vocalist Ciara Henry and cajon player Ali Greene.
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€12 adv / €13 door
Advanced tickets are available online from WAV Tickets or Lo-Call 01 4780766 (9:30am-7pm M-F)
– 50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or creditcard bookings. Final ticket price may be higher from other outlets.
Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required
AFTER THE GIG
Whelan’s Silent Disco from 10:30pm – 2 DJs, just pick the one you like best [Free Entry] plus Late Bar.
Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist David Ryan Harris will embark on his Victory Lap tour in 2020 as he plans to take an indefinite hiatus from his own artist touring to concentrate on writing and producing for other people and to spend more time with family.
Ryan Cullen, otherwise known under the pseudonym “Marcus Woods”, is a 19 year old multi-genre producer from Dublin, Ireland with production and sounds consisting of a fusion of ambient, trap and experimental elements.
Following an epic performance on Tommy Tiernan show on RTE, The Mary Wallopers have announced a headline show live at Whelans, Friday 24th April 2020. Tickets will go on sale tomorrow at 10AM from Ticketmaster.
Having toured the world extensively over the past 5 years from the 3 Arena in Dublin to Radio City in New York, Brian McGrane has collaborated with many big Irish names such as Celtic Woman, Gavin James, Phil coulter, The Celtic Tenors, Sharon Corr, Brian Kennedy and many more.
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_ Main Venue _
Leif Vollebekk
Reschedules show at The Sound House 2 nd May to
Whelans, 31 st October 2020
All purchased tickets will remain valid for new date
Tickets €13.00 available from Ticketmaster
Aiken Promotions proudly presents Leif Vollebekk live at Whelans, 31 st October.
New Ways is a new album by Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk, his hotly anticipated follow-up to the Polaris Prize finalist Twin Solitude. It’s a record that lives between the kick and the snare, in that instant of feeling before the backbeat.
“The way that it was is the way it should be,” Vollebekk sings on “Phaedrus”—a line that’s a memory and a wish. New Ways is that too: the sound of desire in its
unfolding. Two years ago, things were changing so fast, and the songwriter didn’t want to forget. “I often think of Leonard Cohen’s line, ‘I hope you’re keeping some kind of record,’” he says. “So I did.” It was like he was pretending you can compose a soundtrack to your own life (which perhaps you can).
In the end, New Ways is a document of everything Vollebekk felt, the way each moment arrived and moved through him. Whereas Twin Solitude was about self-reflection, New Ways is about engaging and changing, touching and being touched. It’s a physical record, with louder and tighter grooves, and the rawest lyrics the musician has ever recorded. A portrait of beauty, desire, longing, risk, remembrance—without an instant of regret. “She’s my woman and she loved me so fine,” goes the chorus to one tune. “She’ll never be back.”
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MCD proudly presents
JACKIE BEVERLY
plus support
^ Upstairs ^
In less than a year since her debut, Irish indietronic artist Jackie Beverly has been steadily carving a space for herself in the Irish music scene, gaining herself recognition for her addictive 80’s infused pop music and the rightful accolade of one to keep an eye on.
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Shine presents
AARON McCANN
HAPPY ENOUGH?
plus guests
^ Upstairs ^
Fresh off returning from gigging in Los Angeles for a year Aaron McCann is taking his 4th one hour show on his debut UK/Ireland tour. “Happy Enough?” details that year that Aaron spent in LA and tackles issues from mental health to onlyfans.
The show was Aaron’s debut at the Edinburgh Fringe festival with Gilded Balloon and received rave reviews from the likes of Omid Djalili.
“F*cking hilarious” – Joe Rogan
“Very funny” – Tom Segura
“I genuinely hope Aaron McCann dies young so I have less competition” – Daniel Sloss
“Nothing came close to the sensational Neville Staple Band who really got the party started and had the masses dancing along” Anita Merritt-Exeter Express & Echo.
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MCD proudly presents
AMYL & THE SNIFFERS
plus support
_ Main Venue _
Well how about that, Amyl and the Sniffers are coming to Whelan’s on Tue 30th Jun. This is going to be incredible. Do not miss this! Tickets on sale Fri 13th Mar, 10am from Ticketmaster.ie and Whelanslive.com.
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UMACK & Aiken Promotions presents
PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS
plus support
_ Main Venue _
“Massively brilliant.” Shaun Keaveny, BBC 6music “Gives your eardrums a good kicking.” Drowned in Sound “These Pigs are flying.” MOJO “Sounds like an advancing storm.” The Guardian “A band to be genuinely excited about.” The Quietus “Thundering riffs and filthy psychedelia.” Classic Rock
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig” reasoned George Bernard Shaw. “You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” True to form, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have left the wiser of us aware that they are no band to be messed with.
In the seven years since this band’s inception, the powerful primal charge at their heart has been amplified far beyond the realms of their original imagination. The band’s upward trajectory has done nothing to make the Newcastle-based quintet complacent however, as they’ve used the cumulative force behind them as fuel for their most ambitious and hard-hitting record yet. ‘Viscerals’, their third proper (released April 3rd on Rocket Recordings) is an enormous leap forward in confidence, adventure and sheer intensity even from their 2018 breakthrough ‘King Of Cowards’.
Incisive in its riff-driven attack, infectiously catchy in its songcraft and more adventurous than ever in its experimental approach, ‘Viscerals’ is the sound of a leaner, more vicious Pigs, and one with their controls set way beyond the pulverising one-riff workouts of their early days.
The fearsome album opener ‘Reducer’s battle cry “ego kills everything” brings a philosophical bent to its Sabbathian abjection, elsewhere live favourite and perverse banger ‘Crazy In Blood’ marries MBV-ish guitar curlicues in its verses to a raise-your-fists chorus worthy of Twisted Sister or Turbonegro.
Yet Pigs have effortlessly broadened their horizons and dealt with all these new avenues without sacrificing one iota of their trademark eccentricity, and the personality of this band has never been stronger. This record is their most far-reaching yet and its ability to get down to the nitty-gritty of the human condition is implicit from its title outwards.
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I Heart Gigs presents
DARK SIDE OF THE RAINBOW
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I Heart Gigs Presents – Dark Side of The Rainbow
Join us on 4/20(April 20th) where SYNK will perform the 1973 album Dark Side of The Moon live in it’s entirety along with some other Pink Floyd Classics.
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Aiken Promotions presents
WATKINS FAMILY HOUR
[NICKEL CREEK]
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Returning to the studio as Watkins Family Hour, Sean and Sara Watkins consider brother sister a duo-centric record – yet one that feels bigger than just two people.
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Aiken Promotions presents
DAVID RYAN HARRIS
plus support
^ Upstairs ^
Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist David Ryan Harris will embark on his Victory Lap tour in 2020 as he plans to take an indefinite hiatus from his own artist touring to concentrate on writing and producing for other people and to spend more time with family.
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BIMM Dublin presents
END OF TERM GIG
_ Main Venue _
The BIMM College Live and Lyrical gigs are held once every term for the college’s songwriting students to showcase their material backed up by the other music students from the BIMM College.
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PATRICK DAVIS
plus support
^ Upstairs ^
Patrick Davis has long been a highly accomplished Nashville songwriter for acts ranging from Dublin’s Imelda May (“Call Me” & “Leave Me Lonely”) to America’s Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker, Robert Randolph & others, but most recently Patrick has decided to not only be the songwriter, but also the artist.
Aiken Promotions are delighted to announce the return of EASTBOUND for its second year running, the festival which creates a live space for the best in new and breaking to Irish and International artists. Aiken Promotions have teamed up with RTE 2FM as the media partners for 2020. RTE 2FM are known for championing new and breaking acts, providing air play and a platform for fresh talent to be heard on National radio.
EASTBOUND – a six-night stand at venues across Dublin taking place May 12-17th 2020 is about capturing the spirit of new and breaking artists and capturing the imagination of a devoted, music-hungry city like Dublin and bringing it all together to create making meaningful beginnings.
– 50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or credit card bookings. Final ticket price may be higher from other outlets.
Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required
AFTER THE GIG
Indie & Alternative Dance Party | Drinks Promos | 11pm til 3am or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue – Free Entry via front door until 10:30pm.
Aiken Promotions are delighted to announce the return of EASTBOUND for its second year running, the festival which creates a live space for the best in new and breaking to Irish and International artists. Aiken Promotions have teamed up with RTE 2FM as the media partners for 2020. RTE 2FM are known for championing new and breaking acts, providing air play and a platform for fresh talent to be heard on National radio.
EASTBOUND – a six-night stand at venues across Dublin taking place May 12-17th 2020 is about capturing the spirit of new and breaking artists and capturing the imagination of a devoted, music-hungry city like Dublin and bringing it all together to create making meaningful beginnings.
– 50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or credit card bookings. Final ticket price may be higher from other outlets.
Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required
AFTER THE GIG
Indie & Alternative Dance Party | Drinks Promos | 11pm til 3am or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue – Free Entry via front door until 10:30pm.
After multiple sold out shows in Dublin, London Astrobeat Orchestra will return, this time performing songs from the iconic Talking Heads live at Whelans, 20th June 2020. Tickets on sale this Friday at 10AM.
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MCD proudly presents
CAOILIAN SHERLOCK
plus support
^ Upstairs ^
Playing guitar and writing songs since the age of fifteen, well worn through years in rock and roll bands – Caoilian Sherlock’s solo material takes a considered
