Paul Burch and Laura Cantrell announce co-headlining gigs

Not content with opening for Ralph Stanley at the Dublin Olympia on November 8, Paul Burch and Laura Cantrell pay co-headlining visits to the Half Moon, Cork (9); Errigle Inn, Belfast (10); and Cleere's Theatre, Kilkenny (11).

A regular fixture at the Kilkenny Rhythm N Roots Festival, Burch has managed to combine contributing to albums by Bobby Bare Jr., Josh Rouse and Vic Chesnutt with ongoing membership of alt.country gods Lambchop.

Cantrell, meanwhile, was described by Rolling Stone recently as "a modern woman with an old-timey heart, pitched somewhere between the bluesy realism of Lucinda Williams and the vintage femininity of Kitty Wells."