Mullingar native Peter Doran has announced a headline show at Dublin's Grand Social on December 16th, 2021.

The gig is set to celebrate the release of Doran's highly anticipated fifth studio album Voices, which will arrive in May of this year.

Recorded and co-produced by Hally at Arthouse Studios in Naas throughout 2019 and 2020, Voices features extensive contributions from multi-instrumentalist Lenny Cahill and special guest vocals from US songwriter Haley Heynderickx and Emmett Tinley (The Prayer Boat).

String duties were shared by Dublin-based composer/arranger Mary Barnecutt and Peter's long-term collaborator Gerard Toal.

The songs were written in the six year period since Outlines, a time of great change in the songwriter’s life, which saw him marry his long-term partner and muse and move into a 200-year-old Farmhouse on the outskirts of his hometown, Mullingar.

The singer-songwriter recently unveiled the beautiful video for his first single in six years, ‘Nothing New Under The Sun', which premiered on Hot Press. The independent musician's visual project was supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media.

'Every Little Thing' from Doran's 2012 album Overhead the Stars has been played over 1,300,000 times on Spotify and is the theme tune for the American podcast series The Minimalists. His absorbing 2014 album Outlines was described by Hot Press as "a soundtrack to the most mellow of daydreams – albeit ones infused with an underlying darkness."

In recent years Peter has headlined shows in Holland, Germany, England, Ireland, Belgium and New York and opened shows for fellow acclaimed Irish folk artists Mick Flannery, The Lone Bellow, Declan O'Rourke, Fionn Regan and Duke Special.

€13 tickets to see the artist perform at the Grand Social this December are now available from Tickets.ie.

Track Listing for Voices:

1. Go Slow
2. Blue Mountains
3. Voices
4. Lady
5. Saved
6. None the Wiser
7. Ageless Song
8. Nothing New Under the Sun
9. Dark Days
10. Garden