Mick Flannery

For a few years the extraordinary Irish singer and songwriter, Mick Flannery, was a bit of a well-kept Irish secret. In his homeland, he’d had multi-platinum record sales, with three releases in a row hitting #1 – but he wasn’t that well known outside of Ireland. These days, the secret is out.

Flannery hails from outside Blarney, County Cork, where he grew up hearing his mother and aunts singing folk and blues songs. By his teens, he was writing his own songs; at 19 he became the first Irish singer to win awards at the International Songwriting Competition in Nashville. While he worked for a while as a stonemason, his success as an artist meant that he dropped the chisel to take up music fulltime.

He is now widely regarded as one of the finest singer-songwriters to come out of Ireland in recent years – and that’s saying a lot. The Irish Examiner wrote, “Throughout his career, he has cut a fascinatingly uncompromising figure – his grainy voice and introspective demeanor anchoring songs of impressive power and empathy.” His live performances are marked by his stage presence, humour, and always deeply-thoughtful songcraft. “If art is to be useful then it should make people think,” says Flannery. 

We think you are going to love this powerful Irish artist.

– EM