Muireann Bradley announces the Blackwood Pew Tour for 2027, with headline shows set for both Dublin & Belfast.
Muireann Bradley makes music that feels timeless. The 19-year-old blues guitar prodigy has earned acclaim for her intricate fingerstyle playing, transforming technical brilliance into performances of remarkable warmth, clarity, and emotional depth. Her forthcoming Blackwood Pew EP, released last Friday via Fontana Records/Verve Forecast, marks a defining new chapter. To celebrate the new project, Muireann has also announced the Blackwood Pew Tour alongside which is set for February 2027 including dates in Dublin at The Button Factory & Belfast at the Oh Yeah Music Centre.
Tickets will go on sale Friday 30th of October at 10am.
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Her acclaimed debut album, I Kept These Old Blues, recorded when she was just 14, became a coveted collector’s item, with its first pressing selling out everywhere. Since then, Bradley has taken her spellbinding performances from YouTube to sold-out headline shows on both sides of the Atlantic, earning recognition from industry legends including Jools Holland, who invited her to perform on the Hootenanny.
Now, with her Blackwood Pew EP, Muireann has entered an exciting new chapter, stepping forward as a songwriter in her own right. Blending original compositions with fresh interpretations of the music that shaped her, she draws on a lifetime immersed in blues, ragtime, country and Irish traditional music to explore new sounds and stories of her own. Still rooted in the traditions she loves, Bradley is beginning to carve out a musical identity that feels entirely her own.
Blackwood Pew opens outward in every sense. With contributions from producer Declan Gaffney and Ella Walker (aka Wildes), the EP broadens its author's sonic palette with richly layered bass, drums and slide guitar, played by an array of top session players and keys by producer Declan Gaffney. From the themes of longing that shape ‘Not Going Back’ to the evocative, Velvet Underground-inspired ‘Clementine’, the record draws on a lifetime immersed in ragtime blues, American old-time and country sounds, alongside the Irish trad music Muireann grew up with. It feels like a door opening onto new ground; familiar in its roots yet stepping into something more expansive.