Friday 26th September 2025
Location: Cleeres Bar and Theatre, 28 Parliament Street, Kilkenny
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Growing up on the Aran islands in the Irish speaking Gaeltacht, a place that has produced the writers Liam O’Flaithearta, Máirtín Ó’Direáin and Breandán Ó’hEithir, Padraig is proudly bilingual both as a conversationalist and a songwriter and writes and sings meaningful songs on guitar and piano in Irish Gaelic and English. With influences from Enya, James Taylor and The Eagles to Van Morrison, Sinead O’Connor and Richard Thompson, Padraig appreciates strong songwriting with a distinct point of view.
Having demonstrated his songwriting bona fides with his critically acclaimed debut ‘Making Sand’, which was named ‘RTE Album of the Week’ and garnered an RTE Folk Award nomination for ‘Best Original Song’ (Making Sand), Padraig again teamed up with renowned producer John Reynolds (Sinead O’Connor, Brian Eno) and his occasional co-writing partner Barry Ronan. On it’s release, ‘Making Sand’ spent four weeks at Number 1 on the RTE Radio 1 Airplay Chart.
With plaudits from industry legends like Mike Scott, Sharon Shannon and Miles Hunt, and laudatory reviews from the likes of Hot Press, Padraig Jack has already made his mark on the Irish music scene.
Padraig had a busy start to 2025 with appearances at prestigious national and international festivals in January and February. Storm Eowyn claimed every event at Celtic Connections on Friday the 24th of January except for Padraig Jack’s show with Steve Wickham and No Crows (incidentally Steve Wickham plays on Padraig’s new album) and the following morning Padraig created a quite a buzz with a stunning showcase performance at the Celtic Cousins event with Culture Ireland before catching a plane to Dublin to play at Dublin Tradfest that evening with a full band in Áras Chrónáin.
In February Padraig made his debut at Galway’s Tonnta bilingual Festival before heading to play multiple sold-out shows in Cymru and made his debut at Folk Alliance with Culture Ireland in Montréal, Canada…he also squeezed in a west coast of Ireland tour with The High Kings on what is their biggest tour yet stopping at Castlebar’s TF Royal, Galway Leisureland, Limerick UCH and the INEC Killarney.
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