NEeMA, the contemporary folk artist, has announced that she will be playing Whelan's pub on 11 April 2017, tickets will be on sale this week. She has toured extensively around Canada, the U.S., Australia, and Europe, and has opened U.S. dates for Jesse Winchester and European shows for Joe Cocker, Jeff Beck, Cyndi Lauper and Elton John. Her album Painting My Wall Gold was released early in March of last year.

NEeMA was mentored by her good friend Leonard Cohen, and her sophomore album Watching You Think was co-produced by Cohen and Pierre Marchand, who works with Sarah McLachlan.
Painting My Wall Gold was produced by Daryl Johnson and Mark Howard, who has worked with Bob Dylan and Daniel Lanois.

The Montreal Gazette have described NEeMA as "one of a kind" and they have also said that some of her songs, such as 'Angel Undercover', have echoes of her former mentor Leonard Cohen. Painting My Wall Gold has also been described as a 'beautiful, sophisticated, globally-infused, and electronically-enhanced album of modern folk music that draws heavily on themes of acceptance and equanimity', and her lyrics have been described as 'poetic in their ambiguity and sprinkled with visual metaphors and spiritual allusions, transcend the personal triumphs and tragedies that gave them life.'

NEaMA will play at Whelan's on April 11. Tickets priced €15 go on sale this Friday February 10 at 9am through www.ticketmaster.ie & usual outlets nationwide.