Nick Mulvey @ Vicar Street

Cathartic folk pop with a worldly and compassionate edge

Nick Mulvey’s worldly and gently heady folk songs have a warm, fireside glow that seem to ground the listener into a mindful state.

The Cambridge-born artist broadened his horizons before releasing his solo debut album, First Mind, in 2014, having moved to Havana, Cuba, as a teenager to learn music. When he returned he studied Ethnomusicology at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, where he met and formed the jazz group Portico Quartet. Their debut album, Knee-Deep in the North Sea, was nominated for the Mercury Prize, but Mulvey yearned to pursue a personal project, so left the group in 2011. His debut EP, The Trellis, followed two years later, introducing listeners to his nylon stringed guitar playing, haunting vocals, and atmospheric world building.