Mary Coughlan: Last News

Glastonbury has confirmed the full 2022 line-up for its Acoustic Stage.This latest addition to the growing Worthy Farm bill for this year’s festival, which is held from June 22-26, follows on from recent line-up announcements for the Glade, Common, Left Field and Shangri-La areas.The Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury 2022, which specialises in blues, folk, contemporary and country music, will see headline performances from Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott (June 24), The Waterboys (25) and Suzanne Vega (26).The likes of The Undertones, Richard Thompson, Tony Christie, the Bootleg Beatles, The Shires, Brian Kennedy, Mary Coughlan, Scouting For Girls, Fisherman’s Friends, Laura Veirs, Terry Reid and this year’s Emerging Talent Competition winner, Lewis McLaughlin, will also perform on the Acoustic Stage.A post shared by Glastonbury Festival (@glastofest)“The Acoustic Stage is a festival within a festival,” a statement on Glastonbury’s website reads. “For the last 30 years or so, people have been trooping up to the hill to the haven of the Acoustic field.“The crowds visit the Acoustic Stage to either avoid the rain and, maybe even, the sun – in the sanctuary of [our] super-duper circus tent – or, to hear acoustic, song-based music.”Last week the official site map for Glastonbury 2022 was shared by the festival organisers, giving ticketholders their first look at site changes and new areas at this year’s festival.

Suzanne Vega has announced that she will be hitting the road next year for a winter UK tour – get tickets here.The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter – whose most recent album was 2020’s ‘An Evening Of New York Songs And Stories’ – will kick off the tour at Bexhill On Sea’s De La Warr Pavilion on February 11, 2023.Vega will then make stops in Ipswich, Northampton, Edinburgh, York, Cambridge, Cardiff and more, before wrapping up the tour at London’s Royal Festival Hall on March 2.Tickets go on sale on Friday (June 24) at 10am BST – get them here.

Mary Coughlan has opened up about the height of her struggles with drink, admitting: ‘I had tequila sunrises for breakfast.’ The jazz singer has always been open about her struggles with alcohol and the effect that it had on her personal and professional life.

Irish singer Mary Coughlan has confessed that she was hospitalised 32 times as she struggled with alcohol addiction. She tells her story as she brings Brendan Courtney through her life in the new season of Keys to my Life.

We’re all more than ready to say so long to 2020 but as things stand it looks like New Year’s Eve will be a wash out.

she told RTÉ Radio 1 listeners how tough of a time musicians were having in the midst of the pandemic and divulged her own income sharing that she made less than €30 on Spotify in 2019.‘I probably make on average €30,000 a year or less,’ she told Ray D’Arcy before adding, ‘I manage fine on that fine on that Ray, I pay my mortgage and all my bills on that, that’s what I earn a year.’‘They would assume [I earn more] but I don’t,’ she said of the public’s perception of her financial standing given how well known she is.Among the artists that received funding there was a plethora of female talent including Loah, Roe, Erica Cody, LAOISE, Fia Moon and the spellbinding collective Irish Women in Harmony, which was set up by RuthAnne and features

Ray D’Arcy on RTÉ Radio 1 the singer explained: ‘I’m speaking… on behalf of the Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland which was set up three weeks ago.

The Late Late Show was bemoaned for seemingly ignoring the existence of female musicians week in week out over the last few weeks but that is being made up for in spade this Friday.