Random Acts of Kindness – Brooklyn, January 24th, 2019 I’ve been trying to notice kindness. Trying to actively look out for it. To practice it. During winter, in this divided nation, in these dark and cynical times, I find it helpful to see the everyday good in people. Something as simple as holding […]
Brooklyn, January 21st, 2019 What’s your favourite song from ‘Sound’? Originally released in April 2013, it is finally back in stock. Here’s a photograph of me giving Warren Malone the,”We’re brilliant aren’t we look?” at some point on that tour. We toured the hell out of that record. We probably played in your house. You […]
Bushwick- Midtown – Carroll Gardens – Sunset Park – Riverdale – East Village – Lower East Side – Astoria January 12th, 2019 After last night’s gig at American Folk Art Museum someone handed me $20 and said, “That’s for all the times I’ve listened to you for free on Spotify.” You know who you are. […]
January 4th, 2018 Last month I posted live video of ‘Corridors’ (‘All We Have Become’) from my set opening for Glen Hansard at the Capitol Theatre in July. At the end of the night I was handed a multi camera live recording of my set on a flash drive. Here’s ‘Skin and Bones’. Later on […]
Brooklyn, December 5th, 2018 New video of ‘Corridors’, performed live at The Capitol Theatre opening for Glen Hansard on July 27th, 2018. Clare, Saoirse and I will be leaving our current apartment in the new year. Clare and I have lived here since 2011, Saoirse, has lived here all of her 1 month life. […]
After Song Club Last Week Waiting for a train at Bergen Street at 12.30am I hear the sounds of laughter and Spanish guitar at the far end of the platform. I walk towards the music. A French man is improvising songs on a Spanish guitar for his two bench mates on Coney Island bound platform. […]
November 28th, 2018 I first heard Ian Fitzgerald’s music whilst on tour with Anna Tivel in August. We shared a bill with him in Providence. His album has been in the CD player of our Honda Civic since then. Ian writes some of the most writing dense, intelligent, catchy songs I’ve heard in quite sometime. […]
Brooklyn, November 9th, 2018 I’m overjoyed to announce the birth of our daughter Saoirse Ann Connolly. Saoirse, pronounced sear-sha, was born at 7.12am on Monday, November 5th, 2018 on the 12th floor of Mount Sinai West, 1000 10th Avenue, NYC. Clare and Saoirse are both doing very well. I’m a changed man occupying a […]
Brooklyn, October 28th, 2018 Last Thursday night at Big City Folk Song Club, Lara Ewen interrupted my ramblings to present me with two CDs of lullabies that our friends had recorded for Clare and myself and our baby to be. Twenty five songs on two Cds, a mix of originals, covers and traditional tunes. It’s […]
Brooklyn, Thursday October 25th, 2018 The Clown Prince flip flops around the Crown Prince. The Clown Prince promises to send the military to the border to meet a “caravan” of migrants containing “terrorists”. The Clown Prince thrives on fear and distraction. The Clown Prince uses his own personal cell phone. The Clown Prince’s fans chant […]