American songwriter Bonnie “Prince” Billy has been announced for a six-date Irish tour this August.
Will Oldham will tour with musicians Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O’Leary, and take in two Dublin concerts, Galway, Limerick and two Cork shows.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy Irish Tour August 2024
- DeBarras Clonakilty, 22nd August
- Everyman Theatre Cork, 23rd August
- Dolan’s Limerick, 24th August
- Roisin Dubh Galway, 25th August
- National Concert Hall Dublin, 26th August
- Whelan’s Dublin, 27th August
Tickets from €36 plus fees on sale Friday 8th March at 10am from Foggy Notions.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy has a new album called Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You was released last August 11th via Domino, and ‘Bananas’ features on the album.
Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You presents simply – an album made as it was meant to be heard, in a room. The sound of people together – a sound we’d so recently feared that we’d lost – playing, communing, strings and wood and keys and voices singing. KSWDY presents simply, and is sung along easily and happily with in time BUT –is it family portrait or fairy tale? How does it think the world was made, and will end?
Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You was recorded in Louisville by Nick Roeder, featuring Sara Louise Callaway on violin, Kendall Carter on keys, Elisabeth Fuchsia on viola and violin, Dave Howard on Mandolin, Drew Miller on saxophone and Dane Waters’ voice. The presence of so many local players and music educators in the band lends not only to a flow of moments so fluidly encompassing of a wide range of musics from classical to Japanese acid folk and elsewhere, but perhaps even more importantly, to the sense of community, heredity and the triumph of inheritance that is the marrow and life blood of this music.
People and the world, so beautiful and terrible. So much to love and to not like. In the living, Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You enables Bonnie to let it all out, to let go again, and suggest to us all that we get while the getting is good. Watch the video for “Bananas” (video by Ethan Osman) and spread the word, lest the secret destroy you!
