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SUMMARY:Ariel Posen
DESCRIPTION:For Ariel Posen\, songwriting and guitar playing have always gone hand-in-hand. He has spent a decade building a bridge between those two worlds\, balancing his work as an acclaimed instrumentalist\, including collaborations with artists ranging from John Mayer to Tom Jones\, with solo albums rooted in melody and autobiographical storytelling. The result is a career that is every bit as diverse as his music. With performances at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival\, his own Fender Stratocaster signature model\, and a powerful voice that matches his fretwork\, Posen continues to explore uncharted territory\, blurring the lines between genre and generation along the way. \nHis latest album\, Bannatyne\, sees Posen return to the place where everything began. Named after an avenue in his hometown of Winnipeg\, Manitoba\, the record reflects on the past while embracing the future\, combining larger-than-life guitar riffs and 1990s rock influences with the groove-driven textures and sonic exploration that have become hallmarks of his work. \n  \n“This is an album about coming home\,” says Posen. “It’s about looking back and appreciating where you come from\, even as you’re heading somewhere new.” \nCo-produced alongside longtime collaborator Murray Pulver\, Bannatyne is a powerful statement from an artist continually evolving his craft. The album features guest appearances from City and Colour and Kathleen Edwards\, while showcasing the dynamic songwriting\, expressive guitar work and emotional honesty that have defined Posen’s solo career. \nFollowing acclaimed releases including How Long\, Headway\, Reasons Why and the instrumental Mile End series\, Bannatyne finds Posen embracing a rawer and more instinctive approach. \n“Every record is the sound of me finding myself\, more and more\,” he says. “I’m not just a songwriter and I’m not just a guitarist. I’m both of those things.” \nRenowned for his electrifying live performances\, Posen has earned praise from audiences and critics alike\, with Rolling Stone describing him as “a modern-day guitar hero.” \nFans can expect an evening of masterful musicianship\, compelling storytelling and songs drawn from across his celebrated catalogue when he arrives at Whelan’s next February.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/ariel-posen/
LOCATION:Whelan’s
CATEGORIES:Country,Music,R&B,Rock & Indie
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SUMMARY:Singular artist: THE BONES OF J.R. JONES
DESCRIPTION:Jonathon Linaberry looks back on Radio Waves\, his sixth album as The Bones Of J.R. Jones\, but there’s more than just nostalgia at play. Recorded with producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist\, Bahamas)\, the collection is moody and hypnotic\, drawing on the sonic landscape of Linaberry’s youth as it reckons with the doubt and uncertainty of adulthood. The arrangements are entrancing\, built on the tension between acoustic instruments and retro synthesizers\, and Linaberry’s performances are raw and visceral\, at times aching in their vulnerability. Put it all together and you’ve got a poignant exploration of memory and longing delivered by a relentless searcher\, a revelatory work of personal reflection rooted in the endless beauty\, pain\, and chaos of growing up. \nBorn in central New York\, Linaberry got his start playing in punk bands before becoming enamored with the field recordings of Alan Lomax. He launched The Bones of J.R. Jones in 2012 and began releasing a series of albums and EPs that would land his songs in films and TV shows like True Detective\, Suits\, and Daredevil\, and lead to countless tours across the US and Europe\, including stops everywhere from Telluride Blues to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Along the way\, Linaberry would also share bills with the likes of The Wallflowers\, G. Love\, and The Devil Makes Three\, soundtrack an Amazon commercial helmed by Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi\, and earn praise from Billboard\, American Songwriter\, Under the Radar\, and more.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/singular-artist-the-bones-of-j-r-jones/
LOCATION:The Grand Social\, 35 Liffey St. Lower\, Dublin 1\, D01 C3N0
CATEGORIES:Country,Music,Trad & Folk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20270309T190000
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SUMMARY:Pokey LaFarge
DESCRIPTION:Singular Artists proudly presents Pokey LaFarge for a headline show in The Button Factory\, Dublin on Tuesday\, 9 March 2027. \nFor two decades\, Pokey LaFarge has walked his own effortlessly cool road as an exceptionally iconoclastic troubadour – forthright\, genuine\, and markedly keen to put it all out there. Rent Money now sees him pushing forward yet again in what can be safely declared his finest collection to date\, both as an heartfelt expression of personal experience and as no-nonsense social commentary. \nWith its twanging guitars\, plucky rhythms\, and undeniably captivating melodies\, the album soars and swings\, its joyous refrains belying the inescapable undercurrent of constant worry and angst that permeates these troubled times. \nAs always\, the Illinois native deftly traverses the genre boundaries\, seamlessly integrating the myriad strains of 20th-century American music with a freewheeling command of earnest songcraft\, inspired performance\, and subversive creativity. Rent Money stands tall as an indisputable high-water mark for Pokey LaFarge – a defining collection from a one-of-a-kind artist of rare ingenuity and uncommon candor\, now as ever\, determinedly crafting a sure-footed brand of deeply human music all his own. \n“People are always going to tell you what they think you should play\,” says Pokey LaFarge\, “what you should sing about\, how you should sound\, how you should look\, how you should act. And I’ve always just been like\, nah. Nope. I’ve just completely gone my own way\, and hopefully I’ve been honest and authentic in the process.” \n“I’m just trying to make music that AI can’t replicate. Things are so homogenised right now. That’s what I’m really\, really\, really resistant to\, especially when it comes to music. I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to conform.”
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/pokey-lafarge/
LOCATION:The Button Factory\, Curved St\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 2
CATEGORIES:Country,Jazz,Music,Trad & Folk
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SUMMARY:The Delines
DESCRIPTION:Today\, The Delines will be touring The Set Up and a yet to be released new album next March in Ireland with two dates. \n  \nThe Delines were finishing the recording session for our last record\, Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom\, when I brought in a tune called ‘Walking With His Sleeves Down’. Amy learned it on piano and we recorded it live. Her take was stunning but the song didn’t quite fit with the record. It was lonelier\, more rattled\, and it missed that rudderless romance that inhabits the world of Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom\, so we set it aside. Next I brought in ‘The Meter Keeps Ticking’\, a companion song to ‘JP and Me’. It’s the tale of a woman visiting her grifter husband in a mental hospital and realizing he doesn’t want to leave. It was a band favourite\, we recorded it\, but again it didn’t have that reckless romance that the other tracks seemed to have. So it too was set aside. And then finally\, right before we began mixing Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom\, I brought in a version of ‘The Reckless Life’. The song worked sonically but again it didn’t feel quite right lyrically. There was a lonely desperation to it and the other two tunes I just mentioned. I realized I was writing songs in the same world as Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom\, but from different a different angle. The three tracks pulled the listener into the lives of the drug-addled\, the grifters\, and the lost\, and not the romantics adrift on the road like Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom. \nWhen Luck and Doom came out and we began touring it I still couldn’t stop writing sister songs to it. I think seeing the residue of the opioid epidemic in the US\, the thousands of young people lost to addiction and living in tents and on the streets and in old cars and RVs\, influenced Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom but it’s even more pronounced in The Set Up. ‘Dilaudid Diane’\, ‘The Reckless Life’\, ‘Jumping off in Madras’\, and ‘Walking With His Sleeves Down’ all live in that world. \nI also started bringing in different songs about grifters\, not the romantic couples from Luck & Doom\, but the lonely wreckage left after the breakup. ‘Can You Get Me Out Of Phoenix?’ was one of those. It’s a tune about a grifter daughter stranded in Phoenix who is thinking about the life of her father. And then I brought in the idea of The Set Up\, a spoken word song in three parts: the lure\, the catch\, and the grift. I wrote the words\, Cory wrote the music\, and Amy played the part and man oh man did she deliver. \n‘Keep The Shades Down’ was written as a link between the romance of Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom and the isolation of the The Set Up. The couple in the song realises just how close the haves are to being have nots. The tracks came together fast and it was so naturally cinematic in feel that Cory and I began bringing in instrumentals to make it even more so. I had written ‘Jumping Off In Madras’ for the woman in ‘Her Ponyboy’ (Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom)\, as she gets off the freight train alone after the death of her boyfriend. Cory wrote ‘Getting Out Of The Ward’ for the guy in ‘The Meter Keeps Ticking’ who is leaving the mental hospital two days after Christmas and the stunningly beautiful ‘The Last Time I Saw Her’ for the kid in ‘The Reckless Life’ as she sets off from the hospital into the darkness of the world. \nOur stalwart producer\, John Morgan Askew\, was at the helm again and he’s the king of building atmospheric worlds. You can really feel it on this one. By the time we finished the record we realized The Set Up was the wayward\, misguided\, and lonely sister to Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom. More ragged and undone but all CinemaScope Delines. \n– Willy Vlautin\, Portland\, Oregon\, November 28\, 2025 \nAbout The Delines: \nThe Delines were formed after Richmond Fontaine singer/songwriter\, Willy Vlautin\, heard singer\, Amy Boone (The Damnations)\, sing just one single ballad. He was so moved by her voice that he secretly wrote her songs for over a year before approaching her to start a band. Lucky for all she liked what she heard and The Delines were formed. Fontaine’s Sean Oldham on drums\, Freddie Trujillo on bass\, Vlautin on guitar\, and multi-instrumentalist Cory Gray on keyboards and horns. Vlautin is no stranger to critical acclaim in the US\, UK\, and Europe\, enjoying cult success and rave reviews from the likes of the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Uncut\, MOJO\, Hot Press\, Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal\, both as a novelist with seven books under his belt\, and as the former front man/songwriter of the Americana outfit Richmond Fontaine who produced eleven acclaimed studio albums. Three of his novels have been turned into feature films: The Motel Life\, Lean on Pete\, and The Night Always Comes. Ursula K. Le Guin said this of Vlautin’s writing\, “Willy Vlautin is one of the bravest novelists writing… An unsentimental Steinbeck\, a heartbroken Haruf\, Willy Vlautin tells us who really lives now in our America\, our city in ruins.”
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/the-delines/
LOCATION:Whelan’s
CATEGORIES:Country,Music
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SUMMARY:Matt Mathews
DESCRIPTION:MCD Presents Matt Mathews: Not What I Ordered Tour at the Ambassador Theatre on Sunday\, March 21st 2027.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/matt-mathews/
LOCATION:Ambassador Theatre
CATEGORIES:Country,Music,Trad & Folk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20270406T190000
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Kay
DESCRIPTION:Following last year’s release of her sophomore album Second Wind\, American country music star Alexandra Kay has announced details of her Straight For The Heart Tour\, which includes shows in Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on 6th April 2027\, and Cork’s Cyprus Avenue on 7th April 2027. \nTickets €32.50/€35.65/€39.15/€61.85 (Inc booking fees and venue facility fee) on sale Friday 3rd July at 10AM from Ticketmaster.ie. Bookings Subject To 12.5% Service Charge Per Ticket (Max €10.50). \nWith over 9 million social media followers\, Alexandra Kay\, who starred on Netflix’s series Westside\, holds the rare and extraordinary ability to genuinely connect with audiences by just being her authentic true self via heartfelt melodies\, her “refreshing brand of storytelling…custom-made for the country music genre” (People)\, and her “angelic\, yet soaring vocals” (American Songwriter). Cementing herself as a force to be reckoned with in the industry\, the bright and tenacious rising star that Billboard acclaimed as “an adept\, propitious singer-songwriter\,” dropped her debut album – All I’ve Ever Known – in 2023. The project reached #1 on the iTunes All Genre and Country charts globally and earned her a spot in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Country Album\, Emerging Artist and HeatSeeker charts\, independently. \nNow\, signed to BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville and named to Pandora’s “2025 Artist to Watch: Country” list and CMT’s “Next Women of Country: Class of 2025\,” Alexandra wrapped a milestone 2024 – in which she headlined her own tour\, joined Jelly Roll on his Beautifully Broken Arena Tour where she was taken under his wing and was featured on the GRAMMY-nominated Twisters movie soundtrack. Taking 2025 to the next level\, the captivating songstress is giving a glimpse into her sophomore album\, releasing the sultry\, magnetic anthem “Feminine Energy\,” the starry-eyed romance of “The Last” and the contagiously catchy sing-along “Cupid’s A Cowgirl.” Currently commanding stages worldwide\, she joins Brad Paisley on tour this summer and just opened her own coffee shop\, The Coffee Girl\, in her hometown of Waterloo\, Ill.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/alexandra-kay/
LOCATION:3Olympia Theatre
CATEGORIES:Country,Music,Trad & Folk
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