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Trigger warning: Christmas content well into the second week of January AND families singing in harmony.

Some family music from over Christmas and New Years. It’s easy to take it for granted when you’ve grown up with it, but I have since learned not all families are such big nerds. Very lucky to have a cartoonishly large extended family that always put music at the centre of everything we do. This is only some of the talented musicians I am proud to be related to. Legends the lot of ye!

1. MacSweenys doing our best caroller impressions with Auntie Eleanor on piano
2. Eleanor receiving her prestigious award for her excellent accompaniment
3. A snippet of Eleanor treating us to some Rachmaninov
4. My niece Lola doing the Lámh sign for “star” with my brother Eoghan on guitar
5. Genuinely a normal evening in my mom’s house over Christmas
6. Me immediately dipping out of harmony so as not to scream into my phone while showing cute photo and message from my niece Anna
7. My niece Ella being a pop star with her backing vocalists
8. Several people singing Eleanor Rigby out of time (me) with my brother Cian and his daughter Lola on guitar
9. A nice moment between my brother Denis and his daughter Anna
10. Uncle Fred giving us some rockin Bob Dylan with the NYE Choir
11. My cousin Orla (pregnant with future jazz signer baby 🤰) singing The Nearness of You with the incredible Chris Newman, a friend of her mom’s (my auntie Vera)
12. Me being lucky to sing After You’ve Gone with Chris Newman
13. My cousin Jess on the banjo after just getting it as a Christmas pressie (featuring 10/10 stare from my rockstar nephew Killian)
14. My brother Conor and I playing John Prine’s version of Clay Pigeons
15. 78 year old uncle Michael bangin out the jigs
16. Honourable mention for a pre-Christmas show with cousins Mik and Annie in Whelan’s
17. And bonus clip of lots of ADHD in the kitchen while Snowy endures the situation

Happy New Year everyone (if you’re still allowed to say that!) Let this one be filled with even more music and derangement ❤️

Look at that for a load of beours!

Happy International Women’s Day 💖 Here are some of the beoureens I am lucky enough to have in my life x

Photos from photographers who become friends ❤️
Shot by the wonderfully talented and kind Charlotte supporting recently in Cork.

Very excited to kick things off in tomorrow night for the incredible as part of the gorge 🔮

I saw her perform in a few months back (up Cork) and was blown away by the show. So thoughtful, captivating, and fun. Weak for myself to get to share the stage with her — in my hometown no less ✨

I’ll be joined by my brother as usual. But this time, we’ve changed up our set 💅 Excited to give this new setup its debut and v glad to have gotten the seal of approval from the big man himself, J. H. Christ. (See video on slide 2)

Still a few tickets left, so nab yours now before they’re gone! We’re on at 8. Morgana’s on at 8:45. Make sure to get in early!

Today would have been our Dad’s 70th birthday. He was an incredible person; caring, charismatic, funny, and so unashamedly himself. My inspiration in life. He is deeply missed everyday by all of us and everyone who was lucky enough to know him, but his truly one-of-a-kind presence is especially missed today.

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated to our fund in his memory so far! You are all so kind and generous - we’re almost at 3k for and 💖 If you feel like donating today for Dinny Mac’s big day (so long as you are in a position to) then the link is in my bio. 🙂 We’d love to make as much money as possible for the two charities that helped him during his illness so they can continue providing excellent care to people like him and families like ours.

The party is this Saturday in .ie in Cork! Family, friends, and tunes - exactly what he would have wanted for his birthday! So it’s up to us to bring the craic in his honour 😎 Hope to see you there if you can make it to celebrate the Cork legend that was our dad, Denis MacSweeny ❤️

In 2006, we lost our dad, Denis MacSweeny, to cancer. It’s hard to believe that he would have been turning 70 this September. Anyone who was lucky enough to know our dad knows that he was a legend in the very real sense of the word. While there is truly no one else like him, he lives on in all of us, his comically large family he left behind. And as long as we are living, we won’t let his spirit die.

So, in celebration of what would have been his 70th birthday, we’re doing exactly what he would have wanted - throwing a big belter of a party! Music from the B Majors (5/9 of his kids lol), plus more performances from family and friends, we hope to see you in .ie with the same energy Dinny Mac brought to every occasion on Sat 28th Sept 🤩

Whether you can make it on the night or not, please join us in raising funds for and , two incredible Cork institutions that provided outstanding support and care to our dad all those years ago and to other friends and family we have sadly lost along the way. You can donate at the QR code on this poster (designed by ) or at the link in bio. Would massively appreciate if you could share the link around to anyone who would like/is in a position to donate any amount. And spread the word about the gig too! 🥳

Thank you all so much. Hope to see you there! It’s going to be one for the books 🕺

Lots of love,
All the Macs x

What an absolute dream gig last night in ✨ Thank you so so much to for having us along and to everyone there for lending us your ears. I will not be forgetting that one any time soon. ❤️
Also does anyone have a loan of some socks? Because mine were well and truly rocked off by Niamh and her band’s whopper set 🎸 Will continue to listen to her stunning new album Come As You Are for the rest of time and so should you.

Supporting one of my absolute favourite artists tonight in the as part of !!! 😭 I’ve been in love with Niamh’s music for a very long time and fell even more under her spell when I saw her perform live in the Unitarian Church earlier this year. To get to share the stage with such an incredible artist alongside my brother (the mound of hair in the foreground of this photo lol) is an absolute DREAM ❤️ Get down early to see us two fan girls open up what’s going to be a wonderful show 🥰

What an extremely gorgeous way to spend a Sunday ✨ Got to play a very wholesome little gig in the Stephen’s Green bandstand to some very lovely people with my brother and am now shovelling a chai latte down my gullet at the speed of sound. 10/10 day. Thank you to everyone for giving us your time and your ears ❤️ and thank you and Marcus for being icons 😘 We had the best time! Xx

It Wasn’t Love remix out this Sunday 😈
Feel very lucky to have such a true legend/icon/all-round-fantastic-and-hilarious-human take this song to such an interesting and exciting place. Can’t wait for you to hear what Paul did with it! Sad girl summer is about to get a whole lot sadder xx
Artwork by elitist designer and Beamish connoisseur

It Wasn’t Love has been out for one whole week! Thank you all so much for giving it your ears and taking the time to send me lovely messages - a big old pile of legends the lot of ye ❤️ I’m so glad you’re enjoying it. Will be back with more musical sustenance to feed the children (you) soon. My brother and I are currently putting the finishing touches on something we are very excited by. Making music is bleedin class. X

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