Three weeks after debut album Gorta lands on Island Records on January 15, Dublin’s Madra Salach take it on the road, with the Gorta tour kicking off February 4 in Stockholm.
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New England Scene Update: Boston Music Awards Nods for the Murphys, Kettle Burners Hit the Slopes
The Boston Music Awards shortlist landed last Friday, and the Hub’s Celtic punk and Irish rock lot are all over it. Public voting is open through November 16 at bostonmusicawards.com, with the winners crowned at Big Night Live on December 16. Here’s your fortnightly New England round-up. Vote early, vote often (you can’t, it’s one vote each, but you get the spirit).
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Philly & Mid-Atlantic Scene Report: Celtic Christmas at 16, a Timonium Hooley and Scythian’s Ugly Sweaters
Next stop on our tour of the regional scenes: Philadelphia and the Mid-Atlantic, from the Delaware Valley through Baltimore and DC to the Virginia hills. Pub-band heartland, never short of fiddles or thirst, and the run to Christmas is stacked: a holiday show turning sixteen, a three-day indoor hooley in Timonium and touring heavyweights booked through March.
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Canada Scene Report: Rise Again Anniversaries, Atlantic Christmas Runs and a Dropkick Invasion
First stop on our Canada beat, and the map is busy from Kingston to the Rock: anniversary tours, Newfoundland Christmas halls, bagpipes in Ontario legion basements, and a Boston invasion with thirteen Canadian dates of its own.
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Madra Salach: Debut Album Gorta Due January 15
Dublin six-piece Madra Salach have announced their debut album, Gorta, out January 15, 2027 on Island Records. It’s led by last week’s punkier single “Ribbon Factory.”
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New York & New Jersey Scene Report: A World Record, Christmas at Connolly’s and Dublin Comes to Brooklyn
First stop on our tour of the regional scenes: the five boroughs, Long Island, upstate and across the Hudson to Jersey. There’s a world record on Second Avenue, the Bronx bar-band tradition is alive and still thirsty, and Brooklyn is about to get a double helping of new-wave Irish trad. Here’s the NY/NJ radar from mid-October through Christmas.
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Madra Salach: Ribbon Factory
Dublin six-piece Madra Salach just released “Ribbon Factory” via Island Records, their first new tune since January’s debut EP It’s a Hell of an Age hit No. 3 on the Irish Albums Chart.
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