Jobi Riccio & Roesy

Coughlan's, Douglas St.

Fri 30th Oct, 7:30 pm

Jobi Riccio is an artist known for her vulnerable vocal delivery, compelling live performances, and her powerfully intimate yet universal lyricism. Riccio is stepping into her next chapter with Face The Feeling, her forthcoming album on Yep Roc Records due May 15. An “Emerging Act of the Year” nominee from the Americana Music Association, Riccio first broke through with her 2023 debut Whiplash, a coming-of-age record rooted in folk and country traditions. On Face The Feeling, she pushes far beyond those foundations, embracing a bolder, electric, indie-rock-driven sound that mirrors the album’s emotional depth.




Where Whiplash captured the restless search for escape, Face The Feeling finds Riccio choosing to stay, confronting grief, rage, self-doubt, desire, and devotion head-on. Written between Colorado and Nashville and co-produced with longtime collaborators Isaiah Beard and Jesse Timm, the album balances light and dark, restraint and release, as Riccio leans into discomfort as a path toward growth. Songs like “Pilar, NM,” “Wildfire Season,” and “Doesn’t Matter” reveal an artist willing to sit inside complicated feelings rather than outrun them.




Having performed at the Grand Ole Opry, made her national television debut on CBS Saturday Morning, and toured with Lucius, Jason Isbell, and Iron & Wine, Riccio arrives at Face The Feeling with clarity and confidence. The result is her most expansive work yet: a fearless excavation of self and a declaration of artistic evolution.



Roesy For more than two decades, Birr-born singer-songwriter and painter Roesy has been quietly building one of the most distinctive bodies of work on the Irish circuit, album after album of warm, painterly songs, delivered in a voice that seems to lower the lights in the room all by itself.

A songwriter since signing his first publishing deal with Warner Chappell in 1996, Roesy’s catalogue now spans eight albums, two EPs, and touring across Ireland, Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand. His work has long been celebrated for its lyrical depth and emotional clarity, with The Irish Times describing him as “armed with a crystalline pair of vocal chords.”

A true artist in the older sense: he paints, he writes, he wanders, and the songs carry all of it. A cult favourite among those who know, and a discovery waiting to happen for those who don’t yet.

After 15 years in Australia, Roesy is now permanently back in Ireland. He returned in September 2025 for an 11-date solo tour, opening at Electric Picnic and continuing across the country, the beginning of a new chapter at home.