Macdara Yeates

'Traditional Singing from Dublin', the debut album by Macdara Yeates marks a new arrival on the Irish folkscape. Named in MOJO’s Top 10 Folk Albums of the Year, the ten-track effort features a rich store of old and weathered folk songs, ranging from the comic and surreal to the mournful and disconsolate. Macdara Yeates is an Irish folk singer. Born and raised in Dublin, Yeates is one of a crop of artists associated with the recent resurgence of young folk talent in the Irish capital, alongside acts such as Lankum, Ye Vagabonds, and Landless. In 2012, Macdara became a founding member of The Night Before Larry Got Stretched, a monthly Dublin folk gathering, counting such luminaries as Lisa O’Neill, Ian Lynch and Radie Peat (Lankum) among its earliest attendees. With a stentorian voice described as “a bracing, baleful, baritone that sounds as if it's been dug from the deepest, most fragrant turf” (Songlines), Macdara Yeates is ploughing his furrow as a solo performer, garnering critical praise for his solo debut (★★★★★ Songlines, ★★★★ The Irish Times) and performing on some of the most coveted stages in folk music, from An Góilín Traditional Singers’ Circle to the Sidmouth Folk Festival.

 “In a golden age for traditional singing in Ireland, Yeates’s debut comes as further affirmation that the torch is being passed to a generation who truly understand its worth, while unafraid to inhabit it with their own particular voice.” 
- The Irish Times