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Martin Leahy Shares Third Release

August 30, 2021

‘Brian’ is the third release by Cork singer songwriter Martin Leahy. The song is a heartfelt tribute to his school friend Brian Meade who died in 2004. The recording features beautiful harmony vocals by Aisling Urwin and gorgeous strings played by Aine O Gorman with Martin on vocals and playing all other instruments. A hauntingly beautiful video edited from footage, originally shot by Martin’s Uncle in the 1970’s, accompanies the video resulting in a powerful and eerie nostalgic sequence.

The song will be available to buy on Bandcamp from Friday the 3rd of September with all of the proceeds going to Pieta House. ‘Brian’ is released to coincide with the lead up to World Suicide Awareness Day which is on September 10th 2021.

Martin’s debut single ‘Song For Kirsty MacColl’ was released in December 2020 receiving immense airplay and coverage both locally and nationally. His follow-up single ‘The Wolves In The Valley’ received even more attention including more great airplay on BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Ulster, and being playlisted on RTE Radio 1 as well as coverage on RTE.Iie, Hot Press, Echo.ie and many local and online publications. In the short 9 months since his first solo release Martin has already released two singles, released a three-track EP called ‘Merengal’ (under SomeRiseSomeFall) for the charity A Lust For Life, reached the finals of The USA International Songwriting Competition (the final 16 in the lyrics category out of an overall number of 26,000 entries!!) and played his first solo gig in The First Fruits Arts Theatre as a live stream event.

Martin has been playing on the Irish music scene for about 20 years. He has worked extensively with some of Irelands greatest songwriters and musicians including John Spillane, Christy Moore (on his No.1 selling album ‘Listen’), Cormac O Caoimh, Ger Wolfe, Jimmy McCarthy, Greenshine, Noel Brazil, Declan Sinnott among many others. An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, he has produced many albums including the most recent very successful album by Cormac O Caoimh called ‘Swim Crawl Walk Run’ which was awarded album of the week by many radio stations including RTE Radio One, RTE Lyric and BBC Radio Ulster. He also produced Ger Wolfe’s well received album ‘I Have Been Loved’. Other productions include Leah Sohotra, Victoria Keating and Aine O Gorman, SomeRiseSomeFall and John Neville. As a member of the traditional Irish group North Cregg he has toured the World playing many major festivals including Glastonbury, Cambridge and Milwaukee. As a songwriter he has collaborated with a number of writers including John Neville, Mary Greene and last year with Cormac O Caoimh on his successful single ‘Building My Ark’ which received substantial airplay around the country reaching 870,000 listeners nationwide!

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