# Ímar > The Official Website for trad band Ímar ## Posts - [💿🎙️💿 ALWAYS YOU 💿🎙️💿](https://imarband.com/news/%f0%9f%92%bf%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8f%f0%9f%92%bf-always-you-%f0%9f%92%bf%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8f%f0%9f%92%bf/): We are absolutely delighted to announce that we’ve teamed up with one of our favourite singers Paul McKenna to bring you our brand new single “ALWAYS YOU” – yes, Ímar has vocals!!! 🎤🎤 It’s released on the 17th January to get you ready for the Irish tour next month! Listen here: https://imar.ffm.to/alwaysyou - [CROSSING THE ATLANTIC!!! 🇺🇸🇨🇦](https://imarband.com/news/crossing-the-atlantic-%f0%9f%87%ba%f0%9f%87%b8%f0%9f%87%a8%f0%9f%87%a6/): USA & CANADA MARCH 2024 It has been far too long and we are as excited as ever!!! We haven’t been over to the states and Canada for about 5 years and with 2 more albums under our belt we’re coming in hot!!! Tickets are on sale now so let’s make this the best start to the year possible 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸 TICKETS: https://www.imarband.com/gigs - [🇮🇪🇮🇪 IRELAND 2024 🇮🇪🇮🇪](https://imarband.com/news/%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa-ireland-2024-%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa/): WE ARE COMING BACK FOR OUR YEARLY STOP IN IRELAND!!! THE ALWAYS YOU TOUR with the one and only PAUL MCKENNA https://www.imarband.com/gigs/ Let’s do this Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪 - [Glasgow - The Reeling](https://imarband.com/news/glasgow-the-reeling/): From a secret set on stage 2 this year to blasting the main stage next year, we can’t wait for this one!! 🎉 Glasgow we’re coming home!! 🤩🤩🤩 Tickets on sale now from: https://thereeling.com/ - [Awakening Nominated for Album of the Year!](https://imarband.com/news/awakening-nominated-for-album-of-the-year/): AWAKENING has been nominated for ALBUM OF THE YEAR!!! YES!!!!! We put everything into this album and if you love it as much as we do then give us a vote and let’s see how far we can take this album!! 🤩🔥 Vote here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TradAwards2023 - [30,000 Facebook Followers!](https://imarband.com/news/30k-facebook-followers/): Thank you all for 30,000 FOLLOWERS 🎉🎉🎉 We’ve been playing all over the world just our music far and wide and thanks to all of you we’ve been able to keep doing it! We thank you all for your support over the last 6 years and can’t wait to see where our journey takes for the next 6, 10, 20!!! https://www.facebook.com/imarband - [2023 UK Tour!](https://imarband.com/news/2023-uk-tour/): With every new album comes an album launch tour and here it is!!! 💿🔥💿🔥 Our APRIL UK TOUR!! Your chance to hear our new album, pick up a copy and have a night with Imar!! Bringing the session to stage as always!! 🍻🎶 We’re travelling to some of our favourite places and can’t wait to see you all. Some are already down to their last tickets! 😁 Tickets available at 👉🏻 www.imarband.com/gigs - [NEW ALBUM - Awakening!](https://imarband.com/news/new-album-awakening/): Well you guessed it and after five long years it’s finally here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 🪵💥 Our brand new album AWAKENING!! 💥🪵 RELEASED: 21/04/23 We’re taking it back to those Afterlight album vibes and going to be playing a load of it over in Ireland this week!! Pre-Order now: https://www.imarband.com/shop/awakening-pre-order We cannot wait for you to hear this!!! - [Irish Tour 2023](https://imarband.com/news/irish-tour-2023/): After 3 long years we are back to touring Ireland and absolutely buzzing!! Starting at Killarney and working our way around the country 😃😃!! Come this February and join the party!! Tickets on sale from Gigs - [We're Back On Tour in April!](https://imarband.com/news/were-back-on-tour-in-april/): It’s been a while, but we’re very excited to be getting back on the road in April for our UK tour! Tickets are selling fast, and Nottingham has already sold out, so get yours while you can!… - [New Tour Dates!](https://imarband.com/news/new-tour-dates/): 🇮🇪 IRELAND🇩🇰 DENMARK🇺🇸 AMERICA🇨🇦 CANADA This February & March we are going to be hitting far and wide and cannot wait to see you all. We’ll be driving around Ireland in February, then after a few weeks of recovery time we’ll be heading to Denmark, and then onto the USA with a short hop across the border to Canada for good measure. As always, check out the dates on our gigs page to stay up to date with where you can see us performing live! - [We're coming to Ireland!](https://imarband.com/news/were-coming-to-ireland/): It’s taken a while, but we’ve finally managed to arrange a tour in Ireland! We’ll be out in the first few weeks of February, so check out the dates below and hopefully we’ll see you there. EDIT: Dolan’s Upstairs has sold out, so we’ve moved to Dolan’s Warehouse!! Get your tickets quick before that sells out too! 5th LIMERICK Dolan’s Warehouse 6th DUBLIN Whelan’s w/ JigJam 8th CAVAN Farnham Arts 9th DERRY IMBOLC Festival - [Avalanche at iTunes No. 1!!](https://imarband.com/news/avalanche-at-itunes-no-1/): It’s incredible to see our new album Avalanche has made it to number 1 in the UK iTunes World Music charts! Not only that, but it is also number 1 in the German World Music charts, number 7 in the USA World Music charts, and number 8 in the Ireland main album charts!… wow! - [Pre-orders Announced for New Album 'Avalanche'](https://imarband.com/news/pre-orders-announced-for-new-album-avalanche/): We’re delighted to announce that our second album ‘Avalanche’ will be officially launched on October 12th! Pre-orders are available now from our online shop and soon at online digital retailers too. We’ll be releasing more information about the album over the next while on social media, so make sure you follow us to keep up to date! https://www.facebook.com/imarband/ https://twitter.com/imarband/ http://instagram.com/imarband/ - [BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winners!](https://imarband.com/news/bbc-radio-2-folk-award-winners/): After an amazing night in Belfast, we’re very pleased to say we won the BBC Radio 2 Horizon Folk Award! - [BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Nomination!](https://imarband.com/news/bbc-radio-2-folk-awards-nomination/): We’re extremely excited and pleased to announce that we’ve been nominated for the Horizon Award at the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards! This year’s nominees were announced on tonight’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe, and we’re in extremely good company! - [April/May 2018 Tour Dates!](https://imarband.com/news/april-may-2018-tour-dates/): We’re back on tour later this year, and dates are already up on our gigs page for the first two tours this year – Germany in April and the UK in May! Links to the various websites are available on the gigs page, so be sure to get your tickets booked! More dates are to be announced for later in the year still so remember to keep checking the website, Facebook and feel free to track us on Bandsintown to find out first when we’re playing near you! - [2018 off to a good start!](https://imarband.com/news/2018-off-good-start/): What better way to start the year off than with two sold out gigs in January?! Our first gig this year was in the Serbian National Theatre in the beautiful city of Novi Sad, the future European Capital of Culture for 2021, with the legend that is Slobodan Trkulja. It was our first trip to Serbia, and we were blown away by the kindness shown to us by our hosts and the sold out audience. This is how European Capitol of Culture Novi Sad, Serbia, celebrates 7526. year in a sold out Serbian National Theatre! Fantastic Ímar from Glasgow blasting ... Read More - [YouTube Issues](https://imarband.com/news/youtube-issues/): We had an unexpected surprise over the Christmas period and discovered that YouTube had decided to remove our channel. This means that all the videos we’ve posted over the last two years are gone! We’re trying to contact YouTube to resolve the issue, but they’re not the easiest bunch to get hold of. So if you want to find any of our videos in the meantime, you should be able to find them on our Facebook page instead here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/imarband/videos/ - [We're up for some awards!](https://imarband.com/news/were-up-for-some-awards/): We’re really excited to announce that we’ve been nominated in two categories at the 2017 Scots Trad Awards, Best Live Act and Best Album for our debut CD ‘Afterlight’! The public vote is now open, and we’d appreciate it if you would head on over to the link below and give us your vote. You don’t need to vote in every category and anyone from anywhere can vote. Voting closes on the 24th November! www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/tradawards2017 If you haven’t managed to catch us live yet, and need some evidence of the ‘Best Live Act‘ status before voting in good conscience, don’t ... Read More - [Ted Mar Goes Viral](https://imarband.com/news/ted-mar-goes-viral/): What could have been just a normal drive through the Irish countryside on the way back from Craiceann turned out to be a bit of a social media highlight for the Ímar lads last week. “We’re driving near the house where Father Ted was filmed, let’s go and see it”, “It’d be craic to get the instruments out and play the theme tune”… A few hours later, and the video was making waves through Facebook. After just a few days, and over 200,000 views later, the press started taking note, and the video popped up on sites like joe.ie, The ... Read More - [Another 5 stars!](https://imarband.com/news/another-5-stars/): Thanks to George Strachan and The Irish Post for this class 5* review of our debut album Afterlight! Read the review here - [Songlines Essential 10 Festival Bands 2017](https://imarband.com/news/songlines-essential-10-festival-bands-2017/): Great to see us included in Songlines Magazine’s top 10 festival bands for 2017! - [Thanks!](https://imarband.com/news/thanks/): Thanks to everyone who came to see us on our Spring tour. Also a HUGE thanks to all the promoters and organisers for having us at their venues! Here’s a few snaps and clips from our travels… Until next time! https://www.facebook.com/imarband/videos/1806207513030185/ - [April Album Launch Tour Dates](https://imarband.com/news/april-album-launch-tour-dates/): 14th April – Isle Of Man – Peel Centenary Centre 16th April – Glasgow – ((stereo)) 18th April – Skye – Seall, Sabhal Mor Ostaig 19th April – Ullapool – The Ceilidh Place 20th April – Peebles – Eastgate Theatre 21st April – Belfast – Duncairn Cultural Arts Centre 22nd April – Paisley – Paisley Arts Centre 23rd April – Inverness – Eden Court Theatre and Cinema 26-30th April – Shetland Folk Festival - [New Video!](https://imarband.com/news/new-video/): We’re so excited to share this with you! “Into The Light” is the opening track of our debut album ‘Afterlight’ which is available from our online shop More info on the album launch tour coming very soon. Enjoy! Video by Samuel Hurt Videography - [Five stars for Celtic Connections gig!](https://imarband.com/news/five-stars-celtic-connections-gig/): Opened the paper this morning to find that our first ever gig in Scotland at Celtic Connections managed to get a 5 Star ***** review in The Scotsman!! http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/music/music-review-four-men-and-a-dog-imar-1-4352605 - [Afterlight Album Launch](https://imarband.com/news/afterlight-album-launch/): After months of preparation, the lads finally launched their hotly anticipated debut album ‘Afterlight’ at Celtic Connections in Glasgow. Playing before the legends that are Four Men and a Dog, the guys played a blinder of a set at the sold out new auditorium at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, and were left with a standing ovation from the audience. You can purchase your copy of the album right here on our online shop! - [Album Launch Date Announced](https://imarband.com/news/album-launch-date-announced/): We’re excited to announce the launch of our debut album ‘Afterlight’ on the 27th January at Celtic Connections The CD features stunning artwork by Bruno Cavellec, depicting Ímar himself on the front cover. - [Traffic Jam Session Goes Viral!](https://imarband.com/news/traffic-jam-session-goes-viral/): While a few of the lads were on tour in Germany this week, they got stuck in bad traffic on the way to a gig. So what better way to pass the time than by having a quick session?! After posting the video on our Facebook page, it started gathering attention fast, and as we write this is currently sitting at 84,000 views! Not only was Facebook interested in the story, but the press caught wind of it and the story found itself on the independent.ie, joe.ie, her.ie…. It’s amazing what a few tunes can do eh?! Check the video ... Read More - [Gig Announcement - Dranouter Festival](https://imarband.com/news/gig-announcement-dranouter-festival/): One of the final gig announcements for 2016, and a very exciting one too… Belgium’s legendary Dranouter Festival! The festival has been going since 1975, and is located in the West Flanders town of Dranouter near the French border. We’ll be playing there on Sunday 7th August. - [BBC Radio Scotland Live Session](https://imarband.com/news/bbc-radio-scotland-live-session/): Last night we played a live session for Bruce MacGregor on BBC Radio Scotland’s Travelling Folk. We had a chat with Bruce about the band, what we’re up to this year, and played three sets live on air, including two which were previously unheard… a nice exclusive there for Radio Scotland! If you missed the show, you can listen again on the BBC website here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075nzbv We also filmed one of the new tracks, which you can watch here! - [Gig Announcement - Cambridge Folk Festival!](https://imarband.com/news/gig-announcement-cambridge-folk-festival/): We’re very pleased to announce that we’ll be playing at the 52nd Cambridge Folk Festival this July! Not only is it very exciting for us to perform at one of the UK’s most respected folk festivals but we’re also looking forward to premiering some of our brand new material down on our Adam B’s home turf.   There’s more 2016 gig announcements to come, so keep checking our Gigs page and find us on Facebook and Twitter. - [January 2016 Round Up](https://imarband.com/news/january-round-up/): It was a busy start to 2016 for Ímar, as one of the world’s biggest winter music festivals, Celtic Connections was on our doorstep in Glasgow. Although we weren’t programmed for this year’s festival, it would be rude not to join in eh? So throughout the festival we played twice at the late night ‘Festival Club’, and also finished off the last ‘Late Night Sessions’ at the Drygate Brewery.   On the last night of the festival we had particular cause for celebration. Not only were we scheduled to be the penultimate band to play at the Festival Club for ... Read More - [Ímar is coming!](https://imarband.com/news/imar-is-coming/): A brand new year and a brand new group, we’re excited to introduce to you Ímar! You can find us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/imarband) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/imarband), so head on over, give us a like and say hello. You can also find our two new tracks on Soundcloud (http://www.soundcloud.com/imarband). If you want to download them to keep or share with your pals, we’re a generous bunch, so you can download high res mp3s here! Although, if you fancy helping the band out in our early stages, feel free to throw some money our way for the two tracks via Bandcamp: https://imarband.bandcamp.com/ ... Read More ## Pages - [The Stinger](https://imarband.com/the-stinger/): The Stinger Our first single ‘The Stinger’ from the upcoming new album is out now! - [Mailing List](https://imarband.com/mailing-list/) - [Privacy Policy](https://imarband.com/privacy-policy/): This privacy policy explains how your personal information, that we collect about you when you use this website, is used. Topics: What information do we collect about you? How will we us the information about you? Marketing Access to your information and correction Cookies Other websites Changes to our privacy policy How to contact us What information do we collect about you? We collect information about you when you choose to sign up for our newsletter. In doing this, we use Mailchimp. Information is also collected via the use of cookies on our website. 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Released 21st April 2023. - [Ímar Blue Sweatshirt](https://imarband.com/shop/imar-sweatshirt/): S – 34/36″ M – 38/40″ L – 42/44″ XL – 46/48″ 2XL – 50/52″ - [Tunebook Bundle](https://imarband.com/shop/tunebook-bundle/): Buy both albums and the tunebook together to save £6.50! - [Tunebook](https://imarband.com/shop/tunebook/) - [Avalanche (2018)](https://imarband.com/shop/avalanche/): Ímar’s highly anticipated second album ‘Avalanche’ is available now! Available as either a physical CD or high quality MP3 digital download. 1. Deep Blue 2. Wise 3. White Strand 4. Afar 5. Setanta 6. Revenge 7. Rambling 8. The Third Attempt 9. Be Thou 10. Trip To Novi Sad - [Afterlight (2017)](https://imarband.com/shop/afterlight/): Order your copy of Ímar’s debut album ‘Afterlight’ now! Available as either a physical CD or high quality digital download. 1. Into the Light 2. L’air mignonne 3. The Speckled Heifer 4. The Ashbury Slides 5. The Firebird 6. Happy Clappy 7. The Full Orkney 8. Manx Plates 9. 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