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Concerts in United Kingdom
- 01/03/2025Saturday 19:00EdinburghQueens Hall EdinburghIris DeMentLimited Availability
International Concerts
- 02/03/2025Sunday 20:00Dublin, D8, IEVicar StreetIris DeMentLow Availability
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With an inimitable voice as John Prine described, "like you've heard, but not really," and unforgettable melodies rooted in hymns, gospel, and old country music, she's simply one of the finest singer-songwriters in America as well as one of our fiercest advocates for human rights. Her debut record 'Infamous Angel', which just celebrated its 30th anniversary, was recently named one of the “greatest country albums of all time” by Rolling Stone, and the two albums that followed, 'My Life' and 'The Way I Should', were both nominated for GRAMMYs. From there, DeMent released three records on her own label, Flariella Records, the most recent of which, 'The Trackless Woods' (2015), was hailed as “a quietly powerful triumph” by The Guardian. DeMent’s songs have also been featured in film (True Grit) and television (The Leftovers) and recorded by numerous artists. Fittingly, she received the Americana Music Trailblazer Award in 2017.
'Workin' On A World', her seventh album, started with the worry that woke DeMent up after the 2016 elections: "how can we survive this?" “Every day some new trauma was being added to the old ones that kept repeating themselves, and like everybody else, I was just trying to bear up under it all,” she recalls. She returned to a truth she had known since childhood: music is medicine. “My mom always had a way of finding the song that would prove equal to whatever situation we were facing. Throughout my life, songs have been lending me a hand. Writing songs, singing songs, putting them on records, has been a way for me to extend that hand to others.”
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