Cal Folger Day


I'm a musician, educator, and performer based in Baltimore, Maryland and Dublin, Ireland.

gráinne

watch on youtube | listen on bandcamp

an original music+video adaptation (8x 3-min episodes) of the ancient Irish myth as retold by Augusta Gregory; supported by the Markievicz Award and premiered at the Spilt Milk festival in Sligo, Ireland

W.W.T.

listen on youtube

a track-by-track re-interpretation of the 2003 album "World Without Tears" by Lucinda Williams, recorded live in 2022

piece-dye

listen on bandcamp | single on youtube

a full-length studio recording; the text is an interview with a great-aunt, Irene Nally, about her career in the textile design industry

zoonosis

website | album

an original devised show created remotely with performers in Dublin Youth Theatre about the effect of lockdown on human-animal relationships; directed by Tom Creed

the woods and grandma

album | lyric fm feature doc

a full-length studio recording of a show remembering Augusta Gregory through an interview with her two granddaughters, Anne and Catherine; the live show was awarded the Little Gem at the Dublin Fringe Festival

press

"[Piece-dye] is a time-traveling, avant-pop marvel... She packs so much detail and character in the album’s 28 minutes that it becomes part documentary on top of everything else. It’s one-of-a-kind." (Foxy Digitalis)

"A guitarist and chanteuse with jazz leanings, whose vocal control and stage presence command attention" (The New Yorker)

"Cal Folger Day has steadily established as one of the more idiosyncratic and consistently nonpareil musicians in Ireland over the last few years" (The Thin Air)

"At the Roots of the Stars is one of the finest pieces I've ever seen. Fun, reflective, beautiful, important" (Scott Holzman, Chase Public)

"There is a sense of self and personality to the music... Adornament is a work of subtle and considered songwriting" (The Last Mixed Tape)