Stewart Agnew
And Band
Sat 24th May, 2025
Doors 8PM
Tickets €20 &bf on sale now from
https://spiritstore.ie/event.php?eventID=SAg0525
One of Ireland’s most refined singer songwriters, Stewart Agnew, emerged from his self-imposed musical exile this summer clasping a clutch of glorious ear-worms to his chest in the shape of his fourth album, Into the Black Hills. Dundalk based, Stewart has played live with everyone from Ron Sexsmith (who guested on Songs from the Gasstation album) and Duke Special (who guests on this new album, Into the Black Hills; sharing writing credits and lead vocals with Stewart on [track 10] Rain Down Diamonds) to Mick Flannery, Beth Orton, Josh Ritter, Justin Townes Earle & Gemma Hayes.
Into the Black Hills album campaign has gifted us twelve glorious new songs including the highlight singles Ghost Town; the first single; and more recently Rain Down Diamonds, which is a co-write with Stewart and his good friend and fellow artist; Duke Special. The album was produced by and indeed some of the tracks also co-written by Stewart and his long-time collaborator, Phil Wilkinson (Duke Special, Iain Archer, Foy Vance, Snow Patrol), who also produced and arranged the album.
This year marked a very special year for Stewart; not just for the release of his beautiful long awaited new album, Into The Black Hills, the campaign for which has been punctuated with some very special live performances including the Spirit Store which kicked off the album campaign last March. Stewart’s live performances also took in The National Concert Hall in Dublin which housed the album launch show, the summer welcomed a special stripped back show at the infamous Ruby Sessions (Gavin James, Hozier, Ed Sheeran, Freya Ridings and fellow Louth man James Vincent McMorrow amongst many other home and international greats have performed here also), then this Christmas. Stewart kicked off his Christmas celebrations with a hugely special show at The Sugar Club, Dublin earlier this month.
This new show announced for May 2025 at The Spirit Store is a full band show and likely to be preceded by new music to radio and we also anticipate some very special guests on the night. If you have not experienced Stewart Agnew and his band live to this point, this is your chance and on home turf! While an accomplished writer and musician himself, for his live shows Stewart is in the idyllic position of surrounding himself with friends who also happen to be some of the finest Irish musicians around! Cormac Curran, keys and arranger (John Grant, Villagers, Lisa Hannigan, Cathy Davey and SOAK just some samples), Graham Heaney, double and upright bass (Ham Sandwich, The Lost Brothers), and Tadhg Leahy, guitars and piano (RIAM). We cannot wait.
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- Next month, 6th June, 07:30 pm, DUKE SPECIAL Fri 6TH June in Dundalk
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