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Rocky Road to Dublin
Ailie (Blunnie) is a musician and songwriter from Co. Leitrim. She released her début album, West to the Evening Sun, in 2017.
Vocals recalling Sinéad Lohan, Laurie Anderson or Denmark’s Agnes Obel, Blunnie’s blend of earthen Irish folktronica combines assured songcraft, inventive arrangements, and delicately-expansive soundscapes developed in collaboration with producer, Daragh Dukes (Headgear/Wyos/Asylum Speakers).
Growing up steeped in the stillness and beauty of the north west, her college studies took her east: first music, and later, psychology and psychotherapy. She is now based full-time in Dublin. In 2013, she released an EP, playfully entitled ‘On love.. and other murder mysteries’, and from it, the third track, ‘How much do you love me?’, won the UK International Songwriting Competition (2014: Love Songs). Her latest release is a contemporary take on the classic ballad, the Rocky Road to Dublin (2019)