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This Saturday night in glór, Clare’s trad troubadours, Socks in the Frying Pan, will break a promise to their fans, they will release the fifth album that they swore blind that they would never record. This album, entitled ‘Waiting for Inspiration’ is like no album the Clare trio have released to date. It still has its roots in trad and folk, with that unmistakable Socks sound, but it also contains something different. This album is beyond trad. “It’s our fifth album, the one that we promised that we’d never do. We swore eight years ago, after our last studio album, we said we’d never again go into the studio. So we will be launching that in glór. It’s going to be a party night,” Shane told The Clare Champion. For more on this story and all the latest news from the Banner County, pick up this week’s Clare Champion or view our digital edition which is available HERE.

ITS doors may be closed, but glór has been doing its bit to meet the challenges of Covid-19 by bringing people together – from the safety of their own homes. Director of the Ennis arts venue Orla Flanagan believes that shared experiences are an important way of bringing light into these uncertain times. With that in mind, the venue has launched glór sa Bhaile a new series of premier performances, bringing Clare’s finest artists direct from their homes to yours every Thursday evening at 8pm. Steo Wall and Jacinta Sheerin have already featured live from their home in Ennistymon with Katie Theasby set to feature this week. Orla explains, “We wanted to create something unique to glór, where essentially by providing this platform for artists, we could pay them and support them in this particularly challenging time, whilst also importantly connecting with our great and loyal audiences in Clare and beyond, to promote the wonderful talent we have on our …