Mary Coughlan has often been described as the greatest female vocalist and interpreter of songs that Ireland has ever produced proudly standing alongside, the iconic giants of jazz on both sides of the Atlantic, Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf.

Mary Coughlan and her band are bringing her new show Live & Kicking to Irish Venues Nationwide this autumn, celebrating her 30 plus years in the business and featuring all the songs that are close to Mary’s heart and life.

Blending the whisky-blurred, smoke-seared, husky notes and laconic wit of Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee and the line of deep, down and dirty blues singers back to Memphis Minnie and Bessie Smith with the sardonic, bitter-sweet defiance and despair of the Piaf and Mary Coughlan delivers it all in a delicious and unapologetic Irish drawl, sceptical, rueful, mournful and melting, ardent for love, all in one voice which wraps itself around Cole Porter and Jerome Kern, Elvis Presley and Joy Division.