RTE Folk Music Award nominee Padraig Jack writes and sings meaningful songs on guitar and piano in Gaelic and English. His debut album ‘Making Sand’ was released in September 2020 being named the RTE Radio Album of the Week and receiving positive comments from artists like Miles Hunt of The Wonder Stuff and Mike Scott of The Waterboys. Making Sand the single was nominated for ‘Best Original Track at the 2022 RTE Folk Awards and was number 1 in the RTE Radio Airplay chart for 4 successive weeks in summer 2022. The album was recorded with producer John Reynolds (Sinead O’Connor, Damien Dempsey, Indigo Girls) and has garnered critical acclaim at home and abroad with positive reviews in Irish Music magazine, Hot Press, Rock’n’Reel magazine (UK), The Alternate Root (US).

Padraig Jack was born into a musical family from the Aran islands. His dad is the songwriter Barry Ronan and he is the nephew of the Irish poet and Aosdána member Mary O’Malley. A native of Aran which has produced writers Liam O Flaithearta, Máirtín Ó Direáin and Breandán Ó hEithir, Padraig is proudly bilingual both as a conversationalist and a songwriter. With a busy summer in store for 2023, Padraig will play the Doolin Folk Festival and Galway Folk Festival as well as his one- man show in the Aran islands.