Zoé Basha & A Gang

8pm, SUNDAY 20th April

#liveatlevis

Tickets €20

Artist BIO

Zoé Basha is a musician, composer and carpenter, of French and American origins. Based between Ireland and the traveling life for over a decade, Zoé blends traditional singing with jazz and blues. Her original pieces and traditional songs explore the crossover between the sway of Appalachian mountain songs, the fervour and solemn ornamentation of Irish traditional songs, and the pulse of American ragtime through playful, syncopated guitar and a booming voice reminiscent of some old jazz record you can’t quite put your finger on.

After growing up between the U.S. and France, traveling by thumb, freight trains, and taking the scenic route with rust-bucket vans, she played music in the streets for years to sustain the journey. In a milieu blending feminism, radical politics, queer theory and traditional music, she made her home in Dublin.

After releasing an album last year with trio Rufous Nightjar, she’s touring Ireland to launch her much-awaited debut solo album ‘Gamble’ from April 2025. The album was recorded at Black Mountain Studios in Dundalk, Ireland with a band of esteemed musicians adding organ, upright bass, fiddle, dobro, clarinet and drums, to voice and guitar. Touring with her across Ireland are Ultan Lavery on organ, keys & fiddle (Trá Fáidín, Esther Ensemble), and James Christie on drums (Nudyboy Nature, Jawbone Collective).