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Welcome to the Two Auld Folkers, the podcast where the stories, songs and spirit of traditional Irish music come alive.

Hosted by legendary musicians Mick O'Brien and Gerry Browne, each episode is like pulling up a chair at a great Irish session. Expect fascinating trivia you've probably never heard before, stories from decades on the road, conversations about the craft of Irish music, and plenty of laughs along the way.

Every week, Mick and Gerry sit down with a living legend of the traditional Irish music scene. These are the artists who have toured the world, played in pubs, concert halls and festivals across the globe, and helped shape the soundtrack of generations.

The conversations are honest, entertaining and full of unforgettable memories—and every episode finishes with something truly special as each guest performs a selection of their favourite songs live.

Whether you've been immersed in Irish folk music all your life or you're discovering it for the first time, the Two Auld Folkers celebrates the music, the musicians and the stories that continue to keep this incredible tradition alive.


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  • Fin Furey & Connor Furey: A New Chapter in the Furey Story

    Fin Furey & Connor Furey: A New Chapter in the Furey Story
    Oct 6 2026
    For the final episode of Season 1, Gerry Browne and Mick O’Brien sit down with Fin Furey and Connor Furey, two cousins carrying one of the best-known names in Irish folk music while building careers very much their own.Fin is the son of Finbar Furey. Connor is the son of Eddie Furey. Music was part of daily life from the start. Instruments filled the house. Touring stories came home from the road. Songs were learned, heard and absorbed long before either of them began thinking seriously about a life in music.That family history runs through the conversation, but this episode is equally about the paths Fin and Connor chose for themselves.Fin spent years immersed in sport before serious injuries pushed him towards physiotherapy and strength and conditioning. He worked in that field for around a decade. Songwriting arrived from a different place. After the death of a friend, a guitar, a few chords and a melody gave him an emotional release he had never experienced before. Music began to take up more space. A move to Canada, open mic nights and regular gigs helped turn songwriting into something more serious.Connor’s path leads straight to the banjo. What began as curiosity became an obsession. He talks about watching family members play, picking apart tunes, learning from the musicians around him and developing the fast, driving style that now defines much of his playing.That playing comes into full focus during the live music in this episode.Fin performs his original song Japanese Death Poems, inspired by ideas around unfinished potential, mortality and the tradition of writing final poems at the end of life. Connor’s banjo gives the song another layer. Later, the pair tear into The Foggy Dew, with Connor bringing Tam Lin into the arrangement, before closing their performances with Fin’s Old Crumlin Road, written after visiting Crumlin Road Gaol and hearing stories connected to its history.The conversation moves through the Dublin folk scene, late-night gigs, traditional music, songwriting, family influence and the way old songs carry history from one generation to the next.Mick describes folk songs as historical artefacts capable of carrying emotion from another time. Fin builds on that idea by talking about oral tradition, storytelling and the role musicians once played in carrying both stories and news from place to place.There is plenty of laughter too. Fin and Connor are quick, sharp and comfortable taking the slagging as Gerry and Mick dig into family stories, old tunes and the differences between generations of players.By the end, Gerry makes his feelings about Connor’s playing clear, calling his performance of Tam Lin better than anything he had heard before, while Mick singles out Fin’s songwriting as one of the moments that stayed with him from the session.A fitting end to Season 1 of Two Auld Folkers, with two musicians shaped by a major Irish folk legacy and determined to add something of their own.Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEqF7GEWvT0cFin Furey:Website: https://www.finfureymusic.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/finfureymusicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/finfurey/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@finfureyConnor Furey:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connorbanjofurey/Follow the Two Auld Folkers:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twoauldfolkers/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twoauldfolkers/Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/twoauldfolkers/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@twoauldfolkers_X: https://x.com/twoauldfolkers YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@twoauldfolkers Produced By Graco Studios:Website: https://gracostudios.comIrish Folk Music, The Music Of The People.#TwoAuldFolkers #FinFurey #ConnorFurey #IrishFolkMusic #GracoStudios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Damien Dempsey: The Howya Singer

    Damien Dempsey: The Howya Singer
    Sep 29 2026
    Damien Dempsey has landed, and there’s no shortage of songs, stories or craic when he sits down with Gerry Browne and Mick O’Brien.Damien takes us right back to the early days, long before packed Christmas shows at Vicar Street. Gerry remembers first hearing a tape of Damien around 30 years ago, only for someone to confidently declare that a singer with a Dublin accent like his would never work outside Dublin.Damien had other ideas.He talks about the criticism he received for singing in his own accent and why the more people complained about it, the more determined he became to sing his own way.Mick remembers seeing Damien play the Isaac Butt to around seven people, with Damien performing as though thousands were watching. The confidence on stage didn’t always match the nerves beforehand. Gerry and Brendan O’Carroll once offered him an Olympia gig and Damien turned it down because he didn’t feel ready.Then Christy Moore asked him to sing at the Point.Damien was so nervous on the way to the venue that he considered stepping in front of a slow-moving car and getting himself a broken leg. Unfortunately, all he could see were large Jeeps. Going on stage suddenly looked like the safer option.There are a few other gigs Damien would rather forget, including Beat on the Street, where a crowd waiting for boy bands wasn’t exactly delighted to see him. Add some flying bottles into the story and you get a fairly accurate picture of life before Vicar Street.There’s plenty of music along the way too.Damien performs three songs during the episode. “Let It Go” leads into a conversation about carrying pain from the past and learning to deal with it. “The Sacred Sing Song” brings Damien back to the houses of his childhood, surrounded by family, neighbours, songs and music. “The Apple of My Eye” takes us across the Atlantic to his time living in New York and the story behind one of his best-known songs.Damien also shares some lovely memories of Sinéad O’Connor, who sang on his records and brought him on tour across Europe, Australia and America. He remembers her generosity, her incredible voice and, most of all, her sense of humour.Gerry has a Sinéad story of his own involving a television green room, a spliff and somebody trying to explain the smoking rules. You’ll have to hear the rest.The conversation moves through Christy Moore, Luke Kelly, Bob Marley, songwriting, Damien’s early work in Finglas, his new ballad project and the gradual rise from tiny gigs to those famous nights at Vicar Street.And running through the whole episode is a shared love of the Irish sing-song.Songs learned from parents and grandparents. Songs heard in packed sitting rooms. Songs passed around without anyone worrying too much about who was supposed to be the star of the show.Damien grew up in the middle of all of that, and you hear how much those nights still mean to him.Three live songs, some brilliant stories, plenty of laughs and Damien Dempsey in full flow with Gerry and Mick.Stick this one on and enjoy the craic.Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEqF7GEWvT0cDamien Dempsey:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/damiendempseyofficial/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/damiendempseymusic/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DamienDempseyMusicFollow the Two Auld Folkers:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twoauldfolkers/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twoauldfolkers/Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/twoauldfolkers/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@twoauldfolkers_X: https://x.com/twoauldfolkers YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@twoauldfolkers Produced By Graco Studios:Website: https://gracostudios.comIrish Folk Music, The Music Of The People.#TwoAuldFolkers #DamienDempsey #IrishFolkMusic #GracoStudios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Fieldsy: Folk, Fire and Doing It Her Own Way

    Fieldsy: Folk, Fire and Doing It Her Own Way
    Sep 22 2026
    Fieldsy joins Gerry Browne and Mick O’Brien for a wide-ranging conversation about music, reinvention, Irish identity, social media and building a career without fitting the usual mould.Her story starts far from the folk scene. Fieldsy grew up singing, joined girl bands as a teenager, entered a televised singing competition and spent years writing and performing across different styles. Pop, dance music, rock and original songwriting all came before the Irish ballads and rebel songs people now know her for.Australia became a major part of the story. After moving there, she formed a rock band, learned guitar, toured her own material and later created a tribute show built around The Cranberries and The Corrs. The reaction from Irish audiences abroad gave her a new connection to the music she had grown up around.When she returned to Ireland, everything shifted again. She started posting Irish songs online and the response came fast. Social media brought her to a new audience, helped fill live dates and gave her a route into a scene where she never planned to blend in.That individuality sits at the centre of this episode.Fieldsy talks openly about presenting herself on her own terms, bringing Australian influences into her live setup and refusing to soften her personality for the sake of fitting a traditional image. Gerry and Mick explore the changing role of women in Irish folk music and the growing number of female performers stepping forward with their own style, presence and repertoire.The conversation also turns to rebel songs, radio, Irish history and the way younger audiences are responding to traditional material. Fieldsy speaks about seeing large numbers of younger people at her shows, many of them finding her through TikTok and social platforms before going on to connect with songs that have been around for generations.Her approach to familiar songs gives the episode some of its funniest moments.Fieldsy explains how Jolene became Maureen, how Living Next Door to Alice got an Irish rewrite, and how Richard Thompson’s Beeswing became Wasp Sting. The idea is simple. Take a song people know, shift the point of view and give the audience something unexpected.There is also a more personal side to the conversation.Fieldsy talks about motherhood, touring, sacrifice and the reality of travelling alone. She describes loading her own gear, setting up her own PA, driving between shows and treating the whole operation as a business. She also speaks about the choices women often face when family life takes over and how difficult returning to performance can feel after years away.Social media gets its own honest discussion too. Fieldsy runs her pages herself, replies to followers and uses humour to deal with negative comments. Rather than letting online criticism slow her down, she turns engagement back into attention for the music.Across the episode, she performs Black Velvet Band, Wasp Sting and Joseph, her version of Grace told from Grace Gifford’s perspective.This is an episode about finding your own place in Irish music, then refusing to surrender any of the personality you brought with you.Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEqF7GEWvT0cFollow Fieldsy:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fieldsymusicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/fieldsy_official/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FIELDSYFollow the Two Auld Folkers:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twoauldfolkers/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twoauldfolkers/Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/twoauldfolkers/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@twoauldfolkers_X: https://x.com/twoauldfolkers YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@twoauldfolkers Produced By Graco Studios:Website: https://gracostudios.comIrish Folk Music, The Music Of The People.#TwoAuldFolkers #Fieldsy #IrishFolkMusic #GracoStudios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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