Music Community

Big City Folk Song Club (Fall 2025)

Niall Connolly's free NYC concert series

Reserve

Details

FREE (reservations strongly encouraged)

3 hours

Date(s)

Thu, Sep 18 - Mon, Nov 17, 2025

7:00pm - 10:00pm

Contact

boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
888-616-0274

Location

The Devlin Café at Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10019

Overview

Thursday, September 18
Claire Wellen (Youth in a Roman Field)

Thursday, October 2
John Cathal O’Brien

Monday, November 17
Megan Burtt

Hosted by critically acclaimed Irish songwriter Niall Connolly, Big City Folk Song Club is one of the best places in NYC to hear new music, counting Lana Del Rey, Anaïs Mitchell, Lucius, Mundy, Mick Flannery, Susan O’Neill, and hundreds more among its past performers. All are welcome, and admission is free.

Interested in performing? Please email a streaming link for your music to: bigcityfolk@gmail.com.

Facebook: @bigcityfolkcollective
Instagram: @bigcityfolk
Twitter: @bigcityfolk

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Our Supporters

Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours; M&T Bank; the Dead Rabbit; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.