Eleanor McEvoy

Eleanor McEvoy is one of Ireland’s foremost songwriters. Her song “A Woman's Heart” is the title track for the best-selling Irish album in history. It features regularly on screen, most recently in the award-winning sit-com “Derry Girls”

McEvoy graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an honours degree in music and worked as a violinist in the National Symphony Orchestra for five years before taking the plunge to leave the classical world behind to concentrate on her real passion—song-writing.

Establishing herself as an artist around the Dublin music scene, she signed with Geffen records in LA in 1993, moving to Columbia Records in New York for her second and third albums. Today she continues to record and to tour throughout the world as an independent artist, her critically acclaimed canon of work spans sixteen albums. A prolific songwriter, her songs have been covered by performers such as Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Phil Coulter, Mary Coughlan, Bella Hardy, Eliza Carty, Derek Ryan, Jack L, and Saint Sister .

Her most recent album “Gimme Some Wine”, features the singles “South Anne Street”, “The Spanish Word for Heart is Corazon” and “Scarlet Angels” a song written about  her concerts in the National Concert Hall with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra alongside Wallis Bird and Maura O’Connell as part of the ‘Woman’s Heart Orchestrated’ project. The six sold out shows were televised on Ireland’s National Broadcaster RTÉ and aired during lockdown.

2024 has been a busy year for McEvoy with extensive tours across Australia, Ireland, Germany and UK. When she’s not on the road, she is a passionate campaigner for the rights of songwriters and musicians. During Covid, she was appointed by the Minister for Culture to The Task Force for the Recovery of the Arts in Ireland. This resulted in the implementation of a pilot programme for a Universal Basic Income scheme for artists in Ireland. Eleanor also served on the Board of the National Concert Hall, was a voting member of the Recording Academy (Grammys) for seventeen years and she is currently Chairperson of the Board of IMRO, the Irish Music Rights Organisation.