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For the ELEVENTH year Glen busks in (near) Grafton Street to raise money for homeless charities Peter McVerry Trust and Simon Community. To prevent crowd control issues, this is the third year it’s staged in front of the Gaiety Theatre and the musicians are on a small stage with microphones and speakers. This year for the first time, a full drum kit is set up as well. He is joined at various times throughout the evening by Romy, Matthew Devereux, Emily 7, Tom and Felix Doran, Hudson Taylor, Brian Keville (of Qween), Mundy, Liam O’Maonlai, Danny O’Reilly, Halli, Roisin O, John Francis Flynn, Phillip Powell, Amy and Sinead, Dylan Harcourt, Imelda May, Mark Geary, Mic Geraghty, and many more.
Setlist (incomplete): Revelate, Star Star, Stay (Emily 7), Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash), It’s All Right Mama (Elvis Presley), Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan), July (Mundy), Mali (Liam O’Maonlai), Si Do Mhaimeo (Liam O’Maonlai), Don’t Go (Hothouse Flowers), Somebody to Love (Queen), Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen), That’s How I Know It’s Christmas (Hudson Taylor), Don’t Know Why (Hudson Taylor), Faith (George Michael), Butterfly (The Pale), This Gift (with Amy and Sinead), Dylan Harcourt song, Christmas Biscuits (with Mark Geary), Dubliners tunes, Home by Imelda May, Two Poems by Stephen James Smith, Fairytale of New York (The Pogues)
Video:
Don’t Know Why (by Sarah Morduant)
Si Do Mhaimeo (by Stefan Furhaupter)
Like a Rolling Stone (by Uptown Artists Group)
Fairytale in New York – Revelate – Star Star – Like a Rolling Stone – July – Don’t Go – Crazy Little Thing Called Love – That’s How I Know It’s Christmas – Don’t Know Why – Faith – Butterfly – This Gift – Dylan Harcourt song – Home poem – Mali – Ring of Fire (by FRO Films)
Revelate – Don’t Know Why – Like a Rolling Stone – That’s How I know It’s Christmas (by TheJournal.ie)
Fairytale of New York (by Independent.ie)
Fairytale of New York (by Alex Oliveira)
Fairytale of New York (by Sarah Morduant)
Various footage before/during/after the busk (by Danni Fro)