Gemma Hayes announces Kilkenny tour date

Gemma Hayes has announced a series of ten intimate acoustic shows across Ireland, including a Kilkenny date in Cleere’s Theatre on March 23.

The tour follows the release last September of Blind Faith, Gemma’s first album in over ten years.

Blind Faith has been a hit with critics and stalwart fans, as well as being a vehicle for Gemma to bring her music to a whole new audience.

Hayes’ songs have always drawn their power from her lyrical intimacy and lucidity, juxtaposed with her penchant for experimenting with various sonic textures that embrace both the quiet and the loud.

These hallmarks are on riveting display throughout Blind Faith’s nine compositions, produced by Hayes herself alongside Karl Odlum, David Odlum and Brian Casey.

2020 saw Gemma Hayes and her family to relocate from London to West Cork in her native Ireland. It was here that she reignited her passion for songwriting that provided the spark for what would become her sixth studio album Blind Faith.

“Songs began to murmur, distil and rise up in my mind,” she explains.

“I would lock myself in the room, usually late at night when the world was asleep. I knew I needed to capture them before they left me.”

Tickets are €25 and are available from cleeres.com