Big City Folk
Change is Contstant – Rockwood Friday / Song Club Tonight
Wednesday September 15th, 2021 Saoirse’s started school. She’s in 3k, which is like pre pre kindergarten, or Junior Baby Infants. She told me to be brave and to try not to cry. She’s Two and threeeee quarters now. I’m only 43. Good thing I am somewhat busy. I have two real world gigs this week…
Read MoreHappy Birthday Rockwood Music Hall
Rockaway Beach, NY, February 27th, 2019 Rachel said this new place Rockwood Music Hall, was pretty small and an excellent listening room. Two things I desperately craved. I was still living in Ireland when my friend Rachel Loshak told me about Rockwood Music Hall. In those days I was touring Europe an awful lot. Scheming…
Read MoreBecket Cancelled – See you at Cask and Haven on Sunday
Rockaway Park, November 15th, 2019 I’m sorry to say I’ve had to cancel my gig at Dream Away Lodge in Becket, MA, tomorrow. I love Dream Away Lodge and as most of you know it takes an awful lot for me to cancel a performance. Due to circumstances beyond everyone’s control I’m not in…
Read MoreTurning Sound Into Soilds
Rockaway, October 29th, 2019 Modern living can be abstract. I’m making soup. Turnips, onions, garlic, celery, cauliflower, carrots and sweet potatoes. I played at Saugerties Farmers’ Market on Saturday morning and my tip jar included two big bags of vegetables. In an age of digital pennies and virtual likes, I enjoy the directness of…
Read MoreGoodnight Fawkner – Song Club Moves to Stella and Fly
Rockaway Park, Tuesday, August 27th, 2019 Goodnight Fawkner I’m sorry to share the news that Fawkner closed its doors this weekend. We’ve been hosting Big City Folk Song Club there for the last few years and at the same address prior to that when it was Ceol. Thanks to everyone we worked with there…
Read MoreMidtown – Astoria – Upper East Side – Cobble Hill – LES – Sunset Park
New York Performances this week: Monday, April 29th, MIDTOWN: New York Beer Company, Monday Night Session, 8pm Tuesday, April 30th: ASTORIA: BCF Song Club at Shillelagh Tavern with E.W. Harris Wednesday, May 1st, UPPER EAST SIDE: Stella and Fly ( First Wednesdays of the month) Thursday, May 2nd, COBBLE HILL, Brooklyn: Big City Folk Song…
Read MoreSkin and Bones – Live from Capitol Theatre – Chords and Lyrics
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…
Read MoreDon’t Miss Ian Fitzgerald at Big City Folk Song Club
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.…
Read MoreDream Away Lodge, Becket, MA – Tonight
Tonight I return to Dream Away Lodge in Becket. I love it there. Hidden away in the woods in Western Massachusetts it was a former haunt of Bob Dylan, Rick Dank and Joan Baez. It’s a great room to sing in and the proprietor Daniel is fantastic host. Dream Away Lodge was almost certainly in…
Read MoreThank you – That was fun!
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Monday June 12th, 8am. Air quality warning from 10am. What precisely are you supposed to do during an air quality warning? Take a deep breath at 9.59am? It’s 8am and I am in Prospect Park to get a few of those breaths. New York would be impossible without its parks.…
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