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LISA O’NEILL
Announces 
2024 Australian tour

New album
All Of This Is Chance
out now

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Photo: Keri Leigh Kearney

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Praise for All Of This Is Chance

“The first indisputable classic of 2023” – Uncut (9/10 Album Review)

“Stunning, cinematic” – NPR Music

“Uncompromising, stunning, soul-shaking stuff.” – The Guardian, Folk Album of the Year

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Ireland’s Lisa O’Neill is one of the most striking folk singers performing on the live circuit. Recently she announced an extensive tour of Australia taking in Woodford Folk Festival and WOMADelaide as well as dates in New South Wales and Victoria in 2024.

O’Neill’s pure song writing and organic music – she plays the guitar and banjo – alight in songs that reach the soul. She’s built a reputation as a modern artist tapped into the ancient, whose voice pulls at the heart and harkens to different worlds. Her live sets are a striking mix of originals and interpretations – the music stark and cerebral, the voice singular and personal, and stage presence charismatic. A recent live review in The Guardian noted “Her voice…is transporting live: imagine Edith Piaf coming from the Irish border counties, brilliantly stomping her boots.”

O’Neill has been lauded by artists and critics alike. The Edge called hers “a unique voice in Irish song writing”, Cillian Murphy opined “She’s an extraordinary singer songwriter”, while Iggy Pop gushed “Beautiful, what a strong, beautiful voice”. The New York Times declared “O’Neill is a cultural hero in her own right” and NPR Music’s Bob Boilen called O’Neill’s music “stunning, cinematic”.

A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, O’Neill is a five time BBC Folk Award nominee and her previous album Heard a Long Gone Song was named The Guardian’s 2019 Folk Album of the Year. Her remarkable adaptation of Bob Dylan’s ‘All the Tired Horses’ soundtracked the final scene of epic TV drama Peaky Blinders.

All of This Is Chance features orchestral masterpieces such as the ambitious and cinematic ‘Old Note’, and the title track which was inspired by the Monaghan writer Patrick Kavanagh’s epic poem, ‘The Great Hunger’, as well as stirring contemplations on nature, birds, berries, bees, and blood ring out over a clacking banjo throughout the album, dusting and devastating all those in its wake.

Lisa will be joined by fellow Irish musician Brian Leach playing hammer dulcimer – an instrument with such a beauty of sound.

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Lisa O’Neill – Silver Seed (Official Video)
Stream / Download: HERE

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Lisa O’Neill
Australian Tour

27th December  – 1st, January – Woodford Folk Festival – Woodford
19th January – City Recital Hall – Sydney
3rd February – Meeniyan Town Hall – South Gippsland
7th February – The Brunswick Ballroom – Melbourne
9th February – Bendigo Bank Theatre – Bendigo
2nd March + 3rd March – Cobargo Folk Festival – Cobargo
9th March + 10th March* – WOMADelaide – Adelaide
16th March + 17th March* – WOMAD NEW ZEALAND – New Plymouth

Tickets

**At WOMADelaide and WOMAD New Zealand, Lisa will share the stage with revered and award-winning concertina player Cormac Begley, Ireland’s most exciting new folk and traditional artist.

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Follow LISA O’NEILL
Website – Instagram – Facebook – Spotify

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Lisa O’Neill – Old Note (Official Video)
Stream / Download: HERE

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