Mary Coughlan

Mary Coughlan, one of Ireland’s most revered and enduring performers, will celebrate her 40th year in music with the release of a new album, Repeat Rewind.
Mary Coughlan says: “After 40 years in this business and having reached a point in my life where I do a lot of this, looking back and replaying scenes from my life… and wondering…I walk aroundGalway sometimes and remember absolutely everything about growing up there. All of those events made me who I am. I’m easy with that these days. The good and the bad times. All the learning. After 40 years in this crazy business I’m still here and still working. I still love going to a studio and making music, I love playing music live. I hope you enjoy this album”

Often described as the greatest female vocalist that Ireland has ever produced, Coughlan proudly stands alongside some of the world’s most iconic jazz singers. She is unique in blending whisky-blurred, smoke-seared, husky notes with the laconic wit of Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee. She draws the line of deep, down and dirty blues singers back to Bessie Smith with the sardonic, bitter-sweet defiance and despair of Edith Piaf. Yet Mary Coughlan delivers it all in a delicious and unapologetic Irish drawl: sceptical, rueful, mournful and melting and ardent for love.