Hailed as "one of the most important and evocative Irish singers of all time" (Irish Examiner) Damien Dempsey has long been a veritable superstar on his native turf, where his stature has been likened to Bob Marley's in Jamaica. An ex-boxer and street-gang survivor from Dublin's harshly impoverished Northside, he brings his searingly pugnacious, polemical yet compassionate perspective eloquently to bear on topics both local and global, expressed in a formidably mighty voice. After 2008's traditional-based The Rocky Road, he's currently at work on a new self-penned album.