Lisa O'Neill — The Dock Arts Centre

Cavan songwriter Lisa O’Neill will hold a special performance for two nights at The Dock this November.
O'Neill's recent performances include the sold-out run of ‘Symphony for the Moons’ shows at Dublin’s National Concert Hall with the National Symphony Orchestra, London’s Barbican with the Britten Sinfonia, and a 4-night residency in January at The Gate Theatre. Lisa has also been playing alongside The Pogues as a special guest singer on their current tour.

Her acclaimed last album All of This Is Chance ranked highly on many critics 2023’s Albums of The Year Lists. It was selected by Gideon Coe at BBC 6 Music as his Album Of The Year, alongside Songlines’, Uncut Magazine’s and The Quietus’ Album of the Year selections. The album was No. 3 in Mojo Magazine’s Folk Albums Of The Year and Bob Boilen at NPR also deemed it his No.3 Album of The Year.

O’Neill is a five-time BBC Folk Award nominee, and her album Heard a Long Gone Song was named The Guardian’s 2019 Folk Album of the Year. Two of her songs feature in Peaky Blinders – Blackbird, her own composition, and an adaptation of Bob Dylan’s All the Tired Horses soundtracked the final scene of the epic TV drama. Her song ‘Old Note’ was used in the drama series ‘Say Nothing’.

Lisa recently released a single which features vocals from Peter Doherty of The Libertines - ‘Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age)’ - a song Lisa felt compelled to write in response to the growing issue of homelessness in Dublin. This is not the first time O’Neill has written about social injustices on the cusp of a change. Songs like 'Rock the Machine', about unemployment in the Dublin dock lands, 'When Cash Was King', about the move to a cashless society, and 'Violet Gibson', detailing the Irish woman who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in 1926.

You may also like the following events from The Dock Arts:

• This Friday, 5th September, 08:00 pm, The 4 of Us — The Dock, Carrick on Shannon in Edgeworthstown
• This Saturday, 6th September, 11:00 am, The Dockers Collective — Monthly Gathering in Edgeworthstown
• This Saturday, 6th September, 06:00 pm, 'The Safekeep' — Conversations on Books in Edgeworthstown

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