GRAMMY Award-winning Irish-American singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan returns to play DeBarra’s in Clonakilty for a very special evening on Tuesday July 28th.

Aoife will perform Bruce Springsteen’s seminal 1982 album Nebraska in its entirety, solo and acoustic, for the very first time in Ireland. This now annual tradition has O’Donovan returning to perform at DeBarra’s, during what has become her almost annual visit to Cork.

O’Donovan first performed Nebraska in its entirety in 2011, but it was nearly a decade later where her version of the album resonated globally - when she performed it as a livestream benefit for MusiCares in May 2020.

O’Donovan has performed this album in renowned venues around the world including London’s King’s Place, Cambridge Sanders Theatre and at the Newport Folk Festival.

The DeBarra’s concert will be the first time she has brought the show to Ireland. O’Donovan said: ‘I first heard it sitting in the back seat of my dad’s car and I was terrified… I got really deep into the songwriting aspect of it. I was just floored at how he was able to paint such a vivid, stark picture.’

A founding member of the progressive string band Crooked Still and one-third of the folk trio I’m With Her alongside Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz, O’Donovan has built some of her most celebrated work in partnership.

For tickets and further information: www.debarras.ie