Kingfishr are a band of three close friends from Limerick, Ireland. Fronted by vocalist Eddie Keogh, the band make joyous, rousing folk music that sounds as intimate and it does euphoric. 

 Releasing their debut album, Halcyon, back in August 2025, it debuted at number 1 in Ireland (returning there for Christmas) and nestled itself within the UK Top 10 at #7 too. The album’s instant impact was spurred largely from word-of-mouth but was also in part to the impact of their track, Killeagh, a song that’s certified over 22 times platinum in Ireland, topping the charts there for a combined 17 weeks, and has arguably become the country’s modern-day national anthem (“a modern addition to the Irish folk canon. 100%” - The Guardian).  They repeated the trick earlier this year, when The Sun Will Never Settle debuted at #1 in Ireland too.. By the Summer of 2026, they’d sold out almost every venue and park stage that Ireland has to play, and to tens of thousands of fans.

But this isn’t solely the story of an Irish band taking Ireland. Kingfishr have long since flown the nest to climes far further afield. Earlier this year, a debut tour of Australia sold out well in advance, and as temperatures soared, the band headed back out to the US to play in bigger rooms and on bigger stages. A global success story fuelled by live performance.

The beauty of Kingfishr, and what finds them connecting on such a vast level, is that they never complicate things, writing emotionally charged folk songs that arrow to the hearts of all ages and of all walks of life. Songs for Saturday nights, songs for Sunday morning, theirs is a sound and a journey that eschews the modern-day barometers of how to break a band by keeping things decidedly old-school, touring in every town and city that will have them. The fact that every town and city will have them is testament to their songwriting and the reach of their ever-expanding fanbase.