“Gillian Welch wrote a song singing, ‘everything is free and we’re gonna do it anyway, even if it doesn’t pay’ and it’s the sad truth about musicians,” says Irish singer and composer Sue Ryhnart.
"I'm happy inside though, because I'm doing what I really love. I feel like I don't want anything extra, other than to express myself and be heard," she told Róisín Ingle, on the latest Róisín Meets podcast.
Following her critically acclaimed debut album Crossings, Rynhart has just released her second album Signals, which is a collection of new folk songs drawing on Classical and Jazz traditions with a pop sensibility.
Accompanied in studio by Dan Bodwell on double bass and Eamon Sweeney playing the 17th century Theorboed guitar, she performed three tracks off the record live for the podcast: Little Sparrow, Black as the Crow Flies and Silliest Game.
If you like what you hear, then you can catch Sue Rynhart tonight, Friday 28th April, for the launch of her album Signals at Fumbally Stables in Dublin.
She is also performing at Tower Records in Dublin this Saturday April 29th and at the Drogheda Arts Festival in Beaulieu House on bank holiday Monday. You can find out more about Sue's upcoming gigs on suerynhart.com
