Contact marlbank on + 44 (0)7961 672 318. Stephen Graham | editor

Jo Harrop

Jo Harrop
Track choice

If Ever I Would Leave You – Jo Harrop

A knockout version of a Lerner and Loewe classic is the first newly released Jo Harrop recording in a while and marks...

By8 March 2026
Live reviews

Jo Harrop – Magy’s Farm, near Dromara, County Down

As autumn leaves fall all around the beautiful countryside setting, acclaimed jazz singer Jo Harrop plays Northern Ireland for the first time breathing life into...

By28 September 2025

Today's playlist

I went out to the hazel wood,

Because a fire was in my head,

And cut and peeled a hazel wand,

And hooked a berry to a thread

W. B. Yeats

From 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' (1897)

Lisa O'Neill plays down in the Hollow, tomorrow night, in Blake's. The playlist below is of some of her finest work and takes great strength from living Irish trad, folk, sean-nós and keening influences

It's a coup for the between the bridges pub, a Victorian shrine to all things cultural for generations. to host the pride of Ballyhaise, County Cavan on Sunday night beneath the picture of Gaby McArdle that adorns the wall above the lightly crackling coal fire. I heard her myself when Enniskillen poet and RTÉ broadcaster John Kelly [also in the separate video above] hosted an incredible 1916 centenary concert at the Festival Hall in London in the presence of then President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. The intimacy of a Fermanagh cultural shrine in front of new friends and fans from the neighbouring county should hopefully suit Lisa more than well.