Junior Brother for Irish Christmas shows
The Kerry alt-folk singer-songwriter is to play three Christmas shows around Ireland this Christmas.
Junior Brother has announced a Dublin show at Whelan’s this Christmas on Saturday December 23rd at Whelan’s, along with shows in Dolan’s Limerick on December 17th and Thursday December 28th at DeBarras Folk Club in Clonakilty.
Foggy Notions Presents the Dublin show with tickets priced from €25 plus fees on sale now.
Junior Brother also has dates in the UK in February.
Sunday December 17th – Dolans Warehouse, Limerick City
Saturday December 23rd – Whelan’s, Dublin,
Thursday December 28th – DeBarras Folk Club, Clonakilty Cork
About Junior Brother
An idiosyncratic, challenging and richly lyrical singer/ songwriter, Junior Brother is the pseudonym of Co. Kerry, Ireland singer Ronan Kealy. Chosen as The Irish Times’ Best Irish Act of 2019 and nominated for the 2019 Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year, Junior Brother has built a rabid following thanks to unmissable live shows, and music both excitingly forward-looking and anciently evocative. His strange stories unfold with reckless abandon upon a distinctive guitar and foot tambourine accompaniment, influenced as much by the avant-garde as music from the Middle Ages and his home place in rural Ireland.
In addition to earning a Choice Music Prize nomination, Junior Brother’s trailblazing debut album “Pull The Right Rope”, also saw Kealy garner two nominations at the 2019 RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards, for Best Folk Album and Best Emerging Folk Act. Similarly, vigorous approval from modern-day Irish figureheads such as the Rubberbandits and Cillian Murphy has furthered Junior Brother’s stock, the latter playing Junior Brother several times on his BBC Radio 6 Music Show. Along-side further airplay, his television performances include appearances on RTÉ’s the Tommy Tiernan show, Other Voices and the Choice Music Prize Awards night in Vicar Street.
“The Great Irish Famine” leaps boldly forward into an exciting new chapter, and into a shaken new world – staggeringly profound, brutally beautiful in its epic sweep. The new single “This Is My Body” is an intoxicating first taste of this new material. Thematically centred around self-image and the anxieties that are tied to it, the new track expertly toys with tension and release with building guitar lines and stark percussion swelling into moments of repose around Kealy’s frenetic vocals.
