Taken from their forthcoming collaborative album, The World That I Knew, Dublin-based duo VARO share their latest single and video, Green Grows the Laurel, featuring John Francis Flynn.
On ‘Look Over the Wall, See the Sky’, John Francis Flynn unropes songs from their historical moorings and lets them barrel downstream…Refreshing and vividly utopian, these songs exist in liberated states that have the feel of radical statements.
John Francis Flynn shares his new single ‘Willie Crotty’ and its video, directed by Ruth Clinton and Cormac Dermody (from Lankum). It was recorded in a bedroom using the unlikely combination of a clarinet, a handheld radio, a Casio SK1, a harmonica and an effects pedal.
John Francis Flynn announces his new album ‘Look Over The Wall, See The Sky’ and shares ‘Mole In The Ground’, an unconventional new single that evokes the rebellious energy he felt when his home of Dublin was being “torn to shreds by property developers and vulture funds.”
Next month, John Francis Flynn is on tour in the UK supported by Iona Zajac. Following the release of his 2021 debut album ‘I Would Not Live Always’ he went on to win Best Folk Singer and Best Emerging Artist at the RTÉ Folk Awards.
RTÉ Folk Awards winner John Francis Flynn is on tour in the UK now. Watch an incredible live performance of My Son Tim for Other Lives, taken from his solo debut album I Would Not Live Always.
Fresh from an exhilarating sold-out show at Whelan’s in Dublin and a double award-winning appearance at the 2021 RTE Folk Awards, John Francis Flynn today announces his first solo show at Vicar Street, Dublin alongside extensive UK tour dates.
David Weir catches up with John Francis Flynn, also our Artist of the Month, to chat about the inspiration behind and making of his debut album ‘I Would Not Live Always’. “…one of the most deeply affecting folk debuts of recent years.”
Taken from his debut album ‘I Would Not Live Always’, watch John Francis Flynn performing ‘Lovely Joan’ live at Connolly’s of Leap. The video, by Director extraordinaire Peadar Ó Goill, cleverly pairs with the story of a local man’s friendship with a cat. Exceptional on all fronts.
Taking turns both tender and turbulent, John Francis Flynn’s “I Would Not Live Always” is bracing, unpredictable and without a doubt one of the most deeply affecting folk debuts of recent years.
Varo are to perform a live set online from two iconic traditional pubs in Dublin, The Cobblestone, Smithfield, and Walsh’s Pub, Stoneybatter, as part of St. Patrick’s Festival 2021.
River Lea signs John Francis Flynn, a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Dublin whose work centres around traditional and folk material from Ireland and further afield. Watch him performing Shallow Brown.
