Dermot Kennedy has said that his new song, Let Me In, is about the "struggle to find true happiness, and the people and places that have brought me closest to it in my life."
The Dublin singer has released the track on the eve of his new Irish music festival MISNEACH, which travels to the US and Australia in the coming weeks.
Let Me In was written by Kennedy and Gabe Simon (who has worked with Noah Kahan, Lana Del Rey, Anderson Paak) and was inspired by MISNEACH.
Speaking about the track, Kennedy says. "Let Me In is a song about the struggle to find true happiness. I wrote it on the first day I got to Nashville last summer. I hadn't written a song in a while, so it felt like I captured something I had been trying to say for a long time."
MISNEACH (meaning 'courage’ in Gaelic) will be held in two cities central to the Irish diaspora: Sydney, Australia on 16 March and Boston, Massachusetts on 18 to 19 March and sees Kennedy share stages with Kneecap, The Frames, Sorcha Richardson and new emerging Irish acts such as Florence Road, Cliffords, and Nell Mescal.
"For so many years now I have watched the St Patrick’s Day celebrations in so many different cities with a massive sense of pride," Kennedy says.
"I’ve always been so moved by the way Irish history and culture is celebrated all over the world. But I’ve also had the feeling that, for a country so rich in culture, I didn’t see it being represented fully in these events worldwide and I wondered, could we change that?"
MISNEACH: 19 March - The Domain, Sydney: Dermot Kennedy, The Frames, Matt Corby, Kneecap, Meg Mac, Amble, Sorcha Richardson, The Scratch, Susan O’Niell, Fynch, Cliffords.
18 March - Boston Brighton Music Hall: Mick Flannery, Sorcha Richardson, Florence Road.
19 March – Boston TD Garden: Dermot Kennedy, The Swell Season, Ye Vagabonds, Nell Mescal
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