Paul McKenna w/ Enda Reilly – October 10, 2025

Scotland’s Paul McKenna has long been ranked among our finest younger singers and songwriters, armed with a powerful yet intensely emotive voice and passionate social conscience, often expressed through his songs, a combination that’s brought frequent comparisons to the great Dick Gaughan. 

Paul was a featured artist at the world-renowned Transatlantic Sessions in 2019. Alongside Cara Dillon, Tim O’Brien, Molly Tuttle, and the multi-talented house band, he performed a string of shows across the UK. 

In high demand as a writer, Paul has written with a host of acclaimed songwriters across the globe including Tim O’Brien, Dave Gunning and Liz Stringer.

A weather forecast from the past; a mysterious Viking invasion; and a visit to the mythical Isle of Hy-Brasil — these are just some of the stories brought to life in Irish songwriter Enda Reilly’s music. With intricate guitar-playing, vocal prowess and a cross-cultural sensibility, Reilly brings the essence of Ireland to American audiences. His latest album, Hy-Brasil, features newly-penned folk songs sung in both English and Irish Gaelic. “There’s a haunting magic at work here,” raves Folkwords Magazine, and the artistic director of the Milwaukee Irish Festival calls Reilly, “a champion of the Gaelic language.” From the ephemeral lakes of a Yeats’ poem to the 16th century ship where Grace O’Malley ruled as the “pirate queen,” Reilly brings the mythic down to earth.