SATURDAY, 20st JANUARY 2024

Jamie Duffy

Musician and Songwriter

Jamie Duffy is a twenty-two year old musician and songwriter from Ireland. Having grown up in the small border village of Glaslough into a musical family, Jamie blends traditional, modern and classical influences into his music to create sounds that are beautiful, evocative and unique. His debut single, a piano piece titled Solas (meaning ‘light’ in Irish), is the biggest streaming debut song from an Irish artist since Take Me To Church by Hozier, being streamed over 65 million times. Solas was composed in Belfast whilst Jamie was a student at Queens University Belfast, depicting Northern Ireland’s emergence from darkness into a new light in its own right. Jamie studied at Queens and graduated in Politics and International Relations this year, demonstrating to him how relationships between music, politics and culture are extremely important for areas such as international development and peace building, around the world. His recent releases have been inspired by the Great Famine and themes from Irish Folklore, and he is looking forward to exciting projects in 2024.