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Big City Folk Song Club (Spring 2025)

Niall Connolly's free NYC concert series

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Details

FREE (reservations strongly encouraged) 3 hours
Date(s)

Feb 6, 2025 – Apr 24, 2025

7:00pm

Contact

boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
888-616-0274

Location

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

Overview

Thursday, February 6
Line up to be announced

Thursday, March 13
Line up to be announced

Thursday, April 24
Line up to be announced

Hosted by acclaimed Irish songwriter Niall Connolly, Big City Folk Song Club is “a safe space for new songs” and 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.

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Lineup is subject to change.

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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Featuring

Niall Connolly
Niall Connolly

Big City Folk Song Club host Niall Connolly has released eight studio albums, a live album and an EP. His latest album, Dream Your Way Out of This One, features collaborations with his long term NYC band as well as guest appearances from Glen Hansard (Once, The Frames, The Swell Season), Javier Más (Leonard Cohen’s band) and Deni Bonet (REM, Cyndi Lauper, Sarah McLachlan).

Connolly has toured all over Europe and the US, including festival appearances at Glastonbury, CMJ, Prague Fringe Festival, Acoustic Festival Düsseldorf, Cork Folk Festival, and Cuala NYC. He has opened for Glen Hansard, Lisa Hannigan, Lucius, Evan Dando, Eugene Kelly, Lambchop, Mick Flannery, Wallis Bird, Damien Dempsey, MisterWives, and more.

He is the founder of Big City Folk Collective. Big City Folk hosts over 100 events annually throughout New York, a concert series in Woodstock, and a biennial music festival.

"An absolutely beautiful collection of songs...I was gobsmacked by the quality of the songwriting... accomplished composition and arrangements...4 stars."—Arena, RTÉ Radio 1

"Terrific. Disarming and beautifully crafted folk-pop. Connolly is a witty storyteller and not-to-be-missed songsmith."—Chicago Tribune

"Connolly's songs are both sad and uplifting. They're real. They speak to the goodness in people, that need to do something to make the world just a little better."                      —Budapest Times

"Amongst the most vibrant, poignant, and authentic indie folk artists in New York City."—No Depression

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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.

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