Singular Artists
Padraig Jack
Irish singer songwriter Padraig Jack releases his second album These Shores in October 2024. This is the follow-up to his successful debut Making Sand which was released in 2020, was named RTÉ Album of the Week, and also received a nomination for an RTÉ Folk Award for Best Original Song for the track Making Sand.
Padraig Jack (Ó Flaithearta) was born into a musical family from the Aran islands. His dad is the songwriter Barry Ronan and he is the nephew of the Irish poet and Aosdána member Mary O’Malley. A native of Aran which has produced writers Liam O Flaithearta, Máirtín Ó Direáin and Breandán Ó hEithir, Padraig is proudly bilingual both as a conversationalist and a songwriter. These Shores features ten tracks in Irish and English further demonstrating his singular bilingual poetic and musical sensibilities.
Padraig kicked off 2024 with a run of shows with Miles Hunt of The Wonder Stuff in the UK before playing a sold-out show at Dublin TradFest in the Pepper Canister Church and a tour of Wales with Welsh languageartist Meinir Gwilym. He played summer shows in Dublin’s Cobblestone and Galway’s Roisin Dubh as well as a concert in An Spidéal in Stiúdeo Cuan as part of their Summer Concert Series, and made his debut at the Big Top for the Galway International Arts Festival as special guest to the Saw Doctors.
No doubt more gigs are on the way for Padraig Jack to bring the music of These Shores to these shores and beyond!