credit:  John Lyons

John Francis Flynn at St David's Historic Sanctuary

Mar 12, 2025

10:00pm – 10:40pm CT

St David's Historic Sanctuary

John Francis Flynn is a singer and multi-instrumentalist who creates contemporary music using traditional and folk material.
He masterfully unpicks traditional songs and rearranges them with an emotional force. They float in a surreal space between the past and the present, the analog and the digital, between love and tragedy..The unconventional use of instruments and jagged arrangements gives the work a magnetism by drawing you into its curious orbit of experimental folk.

His latest album, Look Over The Wall, See The Sky, was released on Rough Trade imprint, River Lea, and is a powerful re-imagining of traditional Irish music: immersive, hopeful and free.

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Events featuring John Francis Flynn

Mar 11, 2025
10:00pm — 10:40pm
Presented by
The Broadside Hacks Folk Club
Mar 13, 2025
9:00pm — 9:40pm
Presented by
Music From Ireland
Mar 14, 2025
10:00pm — 10:30pm
Presented by
The Line of Best Fit
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From: Dublin, Ireland
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Alternative
Type: Showcase
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