This Saturday night, Newport Live welcomes a very special artist, Lisa O'Neill, coming from Ireland to debut her new record on Rough Trade Records. She will perform at the Colony House on Washington Square in Newport (site of the Colonial legislature, the filming of Amistad and The Gilded Age) on Saturday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m.

General admission tickets are $35 and available through EventBrite and via the Newport Live website.

Recently,, Lisa was featured in the New York Times Music section: “What’s driving a fresh wave of Irish music? Tradition. Lisa O’Neill is a cultural hero in her own right.” - Will Hermes, The New York Times, March 2023.

O'Neill won Best Original Folk Track with “Rock the Machine” at the 2019 RTÉ Radio Folk Awards and was nominated for Folk Singer of the Year, Best Traditional Track, Best Original Track and Best Album at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in the same year.

“Lisa O’Neill is a part of the new wave of Irish contemporary folk artists, one that encompasses the likes of Lankum, Ye Vagabonds and John Francis Flynn, all of them putting their albums out on Rough Trade, which makes the venerable English Indie label something of a centre for what the present and future of Irish folk music sounds like.” – The Arts Desk

A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, every story starts somewhere and O’Neill starts this extraordinary collection here on earth, on Irish soil, hands in the land. The album is full of both orchestral masterpieces like the ambitious and cinematic “Old Note”, inspired by the great Monaghan writer Patrick Kavanagh’s prescient meditation on The Great Hunger, as well as stirring meditations on nature, birds, berries, bees, and blood that ring out over a clacking banjo, dusting and devastating all those in its wake.

Beer and wine will be for sale thanks to sponsors at Ragged Island Brewing and Newport Vineyards, and nonalcoholic beverages and light snacks are also available.