Music

Big City Folk Song Club (Fall 2026 / Spring 2027)

Niall Connolly's free NYC concert series

Reserve

Details

FREE (reservations strongly encouraged)

3 hours

Date(s)

Thu, Sep 10, 2026 - Thu, May 13, 2027

7:00pm - 10:00pm

Contact

boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
888-616-0274

Location

The Devlin Café at Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10019

Overview

FALL 2026

Thursday, September 10
Jo Kroger

Thursday, October 22
Robert Bock (The Locksmiths)

Thursday, December 3
Sean Kiely

SPRING 2027

Thursday, January 28
Tuesday, April 6
Thursday, May 13

Spring line-up to be announced.

Hosted by critically acclaimed Irish songwriter Niall Connolly, Big City Folk Song Club is “a safe space for new songs” and one of the best places in NYC to hear new music, counting Lana Del Rey, Anaïs Mitchell, Lucius, Mundy, Mick Flannery, Susan O’Neill, and hundreds more among its past performers.

Interested in performing? Please email a streaming link for your music to: bigcityfolk@gmail.com.

Facebook: @bigcityfolkcollective
Instagram:@bigcityfolk
Twitter: @bigcityfolk

bigcityfolks.com

Presented with generous support from the Emigrant Support Programme.

Featuring

Niall Connolly

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Our Supporters

Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Brandt Jackson Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; the Irish Institute of New York; the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater; the MacMillan Family Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours; the Covillo Lynch Foundation; M&T Bank; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; the British Council; the St. Patrick's Day Foundation, NYC; the Hyde and Watson Foundation; the H.W. Wilson Foundation; the Tara Circle, Inc; the Manhattan Tourism Foundation; the Harkness Foundation for Dance; and thousands of generous donors like you.