Natalie Merchant for Dublin

Recent Hot Press interviewee Natalie Merchant has confirmed a June 1 visit to the Dublin Helix, tickets for which go on sale on Friday priced €33.60.
In addition to her new Leave Your Sleep double album which is out this week, the former 10,000 Maniacs woman is one of the featured artists on David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s Imelda Marcos celebrating Here Lies Love.
The former finds her setting poems by such celebrated wordsmiths as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Lear and Nathalia Crane to music.
"It's amazing to sing so quietly and have every word be heard after years of yelling over a backbeat," she tells the London Times of her new modus operandi. "That was fun, but I always felt that when I tried to sing more forcefully, I became shrill. I like the breathy, throaty quality I can achieve now."