When I was last in Ireland, I went to a house show on a whim in Dublin. Nothing better than seeing live music in an intimate space, and I often meet kindred musical spirits in such environments. One such person is Luke Brabazon, an Irish documentary filmmaker whom I immediately hit it off with. In his little home on the southside of Dublin city, he was throwing a series of performances, cramming as many friends into his little living room for a night of songs and fun. I loved his work, his spirit and ethos, so after a night of pints we decided to collaborate. From Luke himself;

"A few weeks after I met Anthony, I was invited to the Duncairn Arts centre in Belfast to participate in their creative collective weekend. Once a season, they bring together about twenty of the island's best young folk musicians to create new music together.

Within one of the groups, I heard Molly O'Mahony singing. Her voice is deep and soulful, and she was a quiet but experienced and grounded presence in the circle, thoughtfully giving input to the song that was being created.

We got to chatting, and she reminded me that we'd actually talked on the phone about working together with her band Mongoose a few years ago. I heard someone from Australia recently describing Ireland as being too small to think of as a country on its own - more like a very large community living on an island together. Moments like this make me think this could be very true.

During the Sunday afternoon, we took a few minutes out from the rest of the crowd to film in the beautiful Australia Hall, which felt like a fitting venue for this performance of "Golden Thing".

Thank you to Rachel Cullen for helping out with recording the sound, and to The Duncairn for letting us borrow their audio gear!"

You can find Molly on Instagram at @mollyomahonymusic and listen to her tunes on Bandcamp at [ Ссылка ].

Our undying love and gratitude go to our executive producers for making this project possible: Brad Sirois, Mitchell Davis, Keith McQuillan, David Jameson, Lisa Galvan, Irvin Maddox, Josh Collins, Brady Jones, Julie Nestoroff, VJ Arizpe, and Rusty Shackleford.

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