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"HIS DELICATE songs about love and defiance…..recall Richard Thompson and John Lennon…..one of the East Village’s favorite adopted sons.” So said Time Out New York about Irish singer-songwriter Mark Geary.

HE HAS been called “a wickedly sharp observer of the human condition” by Rolling Stone, with a voice that “qualifies as one of the wonders of the folk world” according to Acoustic Guitar. This is American singer-songwriter Greg Brown.

SINGER-SONGWRITERS Niceol Blue and Ruth Dillon play the Mná Mná showcase in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh tonight at 8.30pm.

SHE USED to think folk music was “old and boring”, but a little persistence and some tough advice from an American duo she once roadied for, set Maddy Prior on her way to becoming one of Britain’s greatest post-war folk singers.

The Saw Doctors are about to undertake their biggest tour of the USA and Canada to date, taking in 29 shows across 27 cities throughout February, March, and April.

Mick Flannery will play at St John’s Church, Kilkenny, as part of the ReVoiced tour on November 24, accompanied by Lisa O Neill, and The Man Whom.

Cleeres Theatre is excited to be playing host to one of Britain’s much loved modern musicians in coming weeks with Eliza Carthy due to entertain the masses on Sunday.

TOMORROW SEES the release of The Shadowlands, the second album by Inishbofin singer-songwriter Peadar King.

“THERE ARE only three white blues singers, and Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.” This praise for the American singer and guitarist came from no less a songwriter than Richard Thompson.

THE SCHOOL Of Rock is back again and the Access Music Project is inviting those aged between 13 and 18 to enrol.