All of the team at Dolans would like wish Emma Langford the very best following the announcement today that she has been shortlisted in the Best Folk Singer category at this year’s RTE Radio 1 Folk awards.
Emma has been shortlisted alongside some wonderful performers - Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, John Francis Flynn, Susan O’Neill and Declan O’Rourke – all of who are great friends of Dolans down through the years.
Emma Langford was awarded the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Award for Best Emerging Artist in 2018, and in 2020 was shortlisted in the category of Best Folk Singer. She was also the first person to be awarded The Dolores O’Riordan Music Bursary Award by Limerick City and County Council.
We are delighted to be welcoming Emma back to Dolans as she is set to play the Warehouse on Saturday, 27th November.
Emma creates work that fuses trad, folk, and jazz; her writing and performance are a celebration of this nation's tradition of storytelling.
In just four years she has written and independently released two highly acclaimed full-band records, 'Quiet Giant' (2017) and 'Sowing Acorns' (2020), which laid the groundwork for a bright and busy future.
While touring has ground to a halt in the past year, the artist charted more than once across iTunes and Irish radio with her epic track Birdsong; collaborated with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra; joined the hugely successful Irish Women In Harmony lineup; and lent her voice to the lead role of Aedan Cara, the "last princess of Ireland" on musical-theatre concept album, 'Colours', which was released last April.
Never one to shy from hard work, Langford made the bold but rewarding move of releasing an album at the height of a pandemic - 'Sowing Acorns' landed in September 2020 and received huge international praise.
Having bided her time long enough now, she can't wait to share the album live on stage before her beloved audience - heckling and singing along are welcomed, nay encouraged.