31/05/2025
John Hegarty plays with The Swell Season in the NCH
I am delighted to be opening for the Swell Season in the National Concert Hall this weekend on Saturday and Sunday night. I’d like to thank Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova for inviting me to play. I’ve never played the National Concert Hall before so I am very excited. Really looking forward to seeing the Swell Season and catching up with everyone after.
20/05/2025
Marty Whelans plays Daydreaming again on Marty in the Morning
Marty Whelan played Daydreaming on his show again describing the song as “stunning”.
03/05/2025
John Hegarty and Barry McCormack play the Kilkenny Roots Festival
I am delighted to announced that I will be playing in the Kilkenny Roots Festival next Saturday, the 3rd of May with the wonderful, Barry McCormack who is coming all the way from Helsinki, Finland for the show. We are playing in Bollards, at 9.30pm and admission free. We will be talking about our long musical relationship, picking each other’s favourite songs to sing and generally have a night of it.
05/04/2025
Lovely chat with Mark Healy about Twilight on That Show About Music on RTE 2XM tomo at 10 am. I got to play some of my favorite songs and had a great chat about all things musical with Mark.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/2xm/that-show-about-music/
22/03/2025
John Hegarty Returns to Nighthawks
I am playing in Dublin in March at Nighthawks, which is a mixture of top quality music, comedy and literature run by the very talented Stephen Kennedy. It is the best night out in Dublin. It is happening on the night of Saturday, the 22nd of March at the United Arts Club and tickets are available from Eventbrite. It will be a pleasure to be in a line up with such talented songwriters, as Galia Arad and Peter Cahill and gifted writers, as Angela Flannery and Colm Keegan and the wonderful comedian, Kevin Gildea
30/11/2024
To Here Knows When – Great Irish Albums Revisited – Twilight by John Hegarty
A music podcast about iconic Irish albums. Each episode takes a deep dive into the making of an album with one of its creators.
“I wanted to write about Kerry, and where I’m from, but through the lens of Tim Buckley – sort of Lilac Time, sort of Go-Betweens – the music that I liked.”
John Hegarty on Twilight.
On this episode I’m joined by John Hegarty for a deep dive about Twilight, his debut album from 2000.
It’s a long episode that mentions all of the following:
Gram Parsons, My Bloody Valentine, Female Hercules, The Harvest Ministers, The Stars of Heaven, The Jubilee Allstars, The Great Western Squares, Micky Greaney, Independent Records, Pernice Brothers, producer Bob Lamb, UB40, The Lilac Time, Mighty Mighty, Ocean Colour Scene, Lisa Mallett (Bentley Rhythm Ace), Martin Furey, Glen Hansard, Kevin Murphy, Cian Nugent, Adrian Crowley, Dinah Brand, Let’s Get Lost, Barry McCormack, Stephen Shannon, Joe O’Leary of Fred, Levis’ of Ballydehob, Béal na Bláth and loads more.
05/09/2024
ANNOUNCING JOHN HEGARTY AT WHELANS ON 22ND OF SEPTEMBER
John Hegarty launches his new album, Daydreaming on Rollercoaster Records with a performance in Whelans accompanied by Mary Barnecutt on Cello and Kenneth Rice on Violin.
Doors: 8pm
Tickets:€15 (including booking fee)
19/07/2024
John Hegarty supports The Sick and Indigent Song Club at The Sugar Club.
John is delighted to be opening for The Sick and Indigent Song Club on Friday night at The Sugar Club. He was there at the early musical sing-songs at the Sick and Indigent House at the entrance to Dublin Castle and played a bit of piano and double bass on their second album. It will be great to meet up with the gang to celebrate their 20th birthday, promises to be a great show
17/05/2024
Daydreaming EP is a ‘Marty Recommends’ on Marty in the Morning on Lyric FM
20/04/2024
John Hegarty new EP, “Daydreaming” is a Marty Recommends on the Marty in the Morning.
The “Daydreaming” EP has featured on Marty in the Morning as a Marty Recommends this week. All four songs “Daydreaming”, “Where I Can’t Follow You”, “Correspondences” and “When I Come To Find You” were played throughout the week on Marty in the Morning and Marty described the “Daydreaming” EP as “fab”, “fantastic”, “gorgeous” and “very fine”.
John Hegarty releases his new EP, “Daydreaming” on Record Store Day.
John Hegarty releases his new EP, “Daydreaming” on Rollercoaster Records on Saturday, the 20th of April which also happens to be Record Store Day.
The Daydreaming EP was recorded in 2023 in The Barn Studio and Twilights Studios in Kilkenny and was recorded and produced by Leo Pearson and John Hegarty.
The Daydreaming EP will be available on CD and Digital Download and John will celebrate the release of the Daydreaming EP with an instore in Rollercoaster Records where he will perform songs from his latest recording.
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