The Wider Than Pictures series is returning this summer to the grounds of the National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks, after last year’s run featuring Fleet Foxes, Alt-J and Simply Red.
Up first on Monday August 21st is the Swedish folk sisters of First Aid Kit.
Sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg will bring First Aid Kit, characterised by melodic folk, Americana influences and modern contemplative pop music to Collins Barracks.
Support is from English singer-songwriter Nick Mulvey, a founding member of the Portico Quartet also.
First Aid Kit first emerged in 2009 with covers of Fleet Foxes, and have collaborated with artists like Jenny Lewis and Conor Oberst. Their fifth album Palomino was released in November 2022, and the video for the song ‘Out of My Head’ was shot in and around Dublin in July of last year.
Ticket information:
- Tickets from €53.65 including booking fee from Ticketmaster.ie (subject to service charge) and singularartists.ie ticketmaster.ie available from Friday, 3 March at 10am.
- All tickets subject to €1 facility charge.
- Pre-sale access is available from Singular Artists mailing list from Wednesday, 1st March at 10am
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
