Aaron Rowe Tickets

When you watch Aaron Rowe on stage, he anchors himself behind the mic, broad shouldered and wide eyed whilst telling stories. Song histories, personal anecdotes or just random thoughts and funny observations are blurted out with erratic but effortless charm. His smile is so sunny and wide it feels permanent and his laugh is hoarse, warm and totally infectious. When he speaks his eyes glisten, but when he sings, they close as his head lulls onto his shoulder and tilts back. For Aaron, singing and playing guitar is not a choice, it’s an extension of himself - he has to do it. You can tell as soon as he begins it offers him not only freedom, but focus.

Over a month before the release of his first single, ‘Hey Ma,’ people were already sharing their own versions online by piecing together the song through snippets that had surfaced on social media. Something within just a few seconds of that song had broken through and touched people.

He's played in pubs with Ed Sheeran, who is a fan, and supported David Gray at the 3Arena without a single song out. Earlier on in the year he was invited to sing ‘The Parting Glass’ with Dermot Kennedy in Boston in front of 20,000 people who hadn’t a clue who he was, and yet the entire place erupted after he sang one line.

Saying this, it doesn't take long to realise it’s not just his voice that has captured the hearts of so many people so early on in his career - its Aaron. His ability to blend this kind of timeless songwriting - whether singing about Monkstown, his ma or his uncle Mick - is truly part of what will make Aaron Rowe a touchstone for his generation, and will ensure he’ll always be sat on that wall, eyes closed, straddling the line between Ireland’s culturally rich past and trailblazing present