New Blood is an new series taking place in June in the city at two venues over two days at The Good Room with Cork Midsummer Festival.
Taking place on Friday 21st June and Saturday 22nd June at Live At St. Luke’s & surrounding establishments, the two day new music showcase features the likes of:
Ezra Williams, I Dreamed I Drea, Rua Rí, The Love Buzz, The Cliffords, Pebbledash and more.
A Friday night concert at St. Luke’s Church features Ezra Williams, I Dreamed I Dream and Rua Rí; and a second show the following night has a bill of The Love Buzz, The Cliffords and Pebbledash.
Free gigs take place at spots at St. Luke’s Cross daytime on Saturday June 22nd too. Here’s the schedule:
Friday 21st June, 8.00pm – Live At St. Luke’s
Ezra Williams, I Dreamed I Dream & Rua Rí
Tickets €20.00 + Booking Fee
Saturday 22nd June, 3.00pm – Cork Coffee Roasters
Eternal Youth Eternal Beauty
Free Entry
Saturday 22nd June, 4.30pm – St. Luke’s Wine Tavern
Luke O’Neill
Free Entry
Saturday 22nd June, 6.00pm – Henchy’s Bar
Gerron
Free Entry
Saturday 22nd June, 8.00pm – Live At St. Luke’s
The Love Buzz, The Cliffords, Pebbledash
Tickets €20.00 + Booking Fee
Saturday 22nd June, 10.30pm – Henchy’s Bar
AbbieLee
Free Entry
Ezra Williams is Cork singer-songwriter who crafts shoegaze-inflected indie about alienation and desire whose debut album Supernumeraries was nominated for a Choice Music Prize earlier this year.
I Dreamed I Dream are a genre-blending five-piece band from Cork who I wrote about here.
I’ve been loving the indie tunes of new band The Cliffords lately, and there is also the psychedelic punk of The Love Buzz, folk singer-songwriter Rua Rí, six-piece
shoegaze alt-rock band Pebbledash, melancholic alt-pop from Gerron, young R&B soul singer Abbie Lee, who has collaborated with house producer Kerri Chandler no less, alt-folk ballad bad Eternal Youth Eternal Beauty, solo project of musician Neil O’Carroll and Damsel singer-songwriter Luke O’Neill.
