Alternative-country/folk musician Robbie Fulks has announced that he will play the Pavilion Theatre on May 5. His most recent release, 2017’s Upland Stories, earned year’s-best recognition from NPR and Rolling Stone among many others, as well as two Grammy nominations for folk album and American roots song ('Alabama At Night').

Born in York, Pennsylvania, Fulks grew up in a half-dozen small towns in southeast Pennsylvania, the North Carolina Piedmont, and the Blue Ridge area of Virginia. He learned guitar from his dad, and banjo from Earl Scruggs and John Hartford records. After attending Columbia College in New York City for a spell in the early 1980s, Fulks dropped out to focus on the Greenwich Village songwriter scene.

In 1983 he moved to Chicago and joined Greg Cahill’s Special Consensus Bluegrass Band. He taught music at Old Town School of Folk Music from 1984 to 1996, and worked as a staff songwriter on Music Row in Nashville from 1993 to 1998. His early solo work - Country Love Songs (1996) and South Mouth (1997) - helped define the "alternative country" movement of the 1990s.

Tickets are €20, and are available now at paviliontheatre.ie.