The Lone star reemerges

Maria McKee returns to Dublin on February 16 when she plays a co-headliner at the Gaiety with Maria Doyle Kennedy.

Back living in Los Angeles, the former Lone Justice woman has been readying a new album, High Dive, which is released next month on her own Viewfinder label.

"We've got worldwide distribution through Mailboat Records, which is a great indie label with some hefty strings to pull in all the right places," McKee says. "We're hiring a heavy hitting P.R. team, so you'll be seeing more of me soon."

McKee also contributes a track to Sirens, a new compilation that's been put together by Doyle Kennedy and features additional contributions from Kirsten Hersch, Sinéad O'Connor and P.J. Harvey.