Billy McCarthy & Michael Pedersen tour a music & poetry roadshow in May

The music and poetry shows will include a fast-fire run of old favourites and new fireworks from cult American singer-songwriter Billy McCarthy and prize-winning poet Michael Pedersen.
Though performing separate sets both McCarthy & Pedersen will fuse the performances together. With a special guest at each county, every show comes kitted with surprises.

Singer songwriter Billy McCarthy fronted NYC based band Augustines and was the focus of the 2019 documentary ‘Rise: The Story of Augustines’. The film won several prizes at the Queen Palm International Film Festival.

Augustines were disbanded in 2017 and McCarthy launched his solo career with debut album Shelter later that year and the release of his first book Unsheltered. A follow-up album Wild Eyes is slated for release this Spring.

Co-founder of Neu! Reekie!, Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet. He has two acclaimed collections; won both the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and The John Mather's Trust Rising Star of Literature Award. His fans include Irvine Welsh, Stephen Fry and Charlotte Church, his recent book, ‘Oyster’, was a collaboration with Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison.

The duo will start their performances in Belfast on Friday May 1, followed by Dublin’s May Abbey Theatre on Sunday, Limerick on Wednesday and closing up in Galway on Thursday May 7 in the Kasbah Social Club.

Tickets for the Abbey Theatre, Dublin show are €25.00 and go on sale Thursday March 5 at 12 midday from abbeytheatre.ie.