{"id":409642,"date":"2026-03-29T07:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/409642\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:20:13","slug":"dermot-kennedy-on-fame-new-album-the-weight-of-the-woods-and-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/409642\/","title":{"rendered":"Dermot Kennedy on fame, new album The Weight of the Woods and privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAs the singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy prepares for his 3Arena concerts in July, he talks about his happy place, the creative process of his third album The Weight of the Woods, his steady steps to fame and why he wants to keep his wife and child\u2019s life out of the public eye\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774768813_796_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dermot Kennedy unveils third album <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Notre Dame Stadium, Indiana \u2013 home to the \u2018Fighting Irish\u2019 college football team \u2013 is a massive concrete bowl, and among the most capacious sporting arenas in America. If Dermot Kennedy ever needed a moment to take stock and get a sense of how big he has become, he could do worse than recall the evening last September when he walked onto that Notre Dame stage, the approving roars of 90,000 people stinging his ears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He was there to join Zach Bryan, the all-conquering country music star who played three sold out Phoenix Park gigs last summer, for a rendition of one of Bryan\u2019s mega-hits. The crowd lapped it up, the Dubliner loving every moment of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy prepares for his 3Arena concerts in July, he talks about his happy place,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[26778,13425,434,27461,18,117,19,17,17689,4746],"class_list":{"0":"post-409642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-3arena","9":"tag-aviva-stadium","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-dermot-kennedy","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-john-meagher","17":"tag-life-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116311256210562898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}