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'Featured Artist...Friday 18 April 2025...susan_o'neill'

Susan O'Neill, also known professionally as SON, is an Irish singer-songwriter and film-maker, from Ennis, County Clare.

Susan has spent the last few years honing her craft as a solo performer. A songwriter of hidden depths, with a timeless voice that is equal parts balm and blowtorch, she is audacity personified, a free spirit, a real performer.

Since the release of the critically acclaimed collaboration album with Mick Flannery 'In The Game', Susan has toured extensively across Europe and North America, performing both with Mick and solo on headline tours, festival stages, and as an invited guest to an array of artists including Phoebe Bridgers, Calexico, Jamie Cullum, Valerie June and The Teskey Brothers

Although only her second album, Susan O'Neill's Now in a Minute, is one of the most highly anticipated albums of the year. It does not disappoint - vulnerable but strong, dark but hopeful, it confirms Susan O'Neill as a fascinating and gifted new voice in music.

Susan studied music in Waterford, in Ireland's South East. As is so often the case, it was the relationships built in this time that proved most significant. College friends and multi-instrumentalists Cillian and Lorcan Byrne are key players and writers on Now in a Minute. It was Susan's mother that started the ball rolling, who'd have thought that a plastic toy microphone passed from a mother to a child would lead to one of the biggest Irish albums of 2021, In the Game, and sell out shows across Europe and America.