Zo\u00e9 Basha is a Dublin-based musician, carpenter, and feminist. Her original pieces and traditional songs blend the pulse of American ragtime, the sway of Appalachian mountain songs, and the fervour and solemn ornamentation of Irish traditional songs. With her signature sound of playful, syncopated guitar, country fiddle, electric organ, drums, and a booming voice reminiscent of some old jazz record you can\u2019t quite put your finger on\u2026 this, here, is a particular kind of americana\u2013 brewed in Dublin. <\/p>\n
Her debut album \u2018Gamble\u2019 – self-released in April 2025 – was awarded \u2018Folk Album of The Month\u2019 by The Guardian, and Basha was named one of the \u2018Five Greatest New Folk Acts of 2025\u2019 by FarOut Magazine. Basha\u2019s debut album and title track were shortlisted for the 68th Annual Grammy Awards in two categories: Best Folk Album, and Best American Roots Performance. <\/p>\n
Traveling by thumb, freight trains, and rust-bucket vans, Zo\u00e9 Basha played music in the streets for years to sustain the journey. Of French & American origins but with some pretty persistent traveling shoes, she\u2019s been between Ireland and the traveling life for the last decade.\u2018Gamble\u2019 tells the stories of her roamings, through adventures and musings of intimacy, sorrow, celebrating the fleeting, and questioning the whole lot. The album is an intimate exploration of identity, grief, the deconstructing of societal norms, and the complexities of human connection, all delivered with a mesmerising voice that echoes the vulnerability and depth of her diverse influences. Inspired by the greats of times passed, such as Billie Holiday, The Mills Brothers, Texas Gladden, Edith Piaf and The Steve Miller Band\u2013 as well as her peers in Irish folk music- Zo\u00e9 Basha savours the sounds of golden eras with contemporary nuance and shameless honesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zo\u00e9 Basha is a Dublin-based musician, carpenter, and feminist. Her original pieces and traditional songs blend the pulse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-389973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}