Imelda May - An Evening With Imelda May LIVE in Ipswich!
Schedule
Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Ipswich Corn Exchange | Ipswich, EN
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Born and raised in The Liberties area of Dublin, Imelda May hasbecome one of the UK & Ireland’s most celebrated female artists.
A true creative, Imelda immerses herself in art across many forms, as a singer, songwriter, actor, producer, poet, illustrator and storyteller.
Her self-written & produced album "Love Tattoo" (2008) remains
the best-selling album of all time by a homegrown female artist in
Ireland and her most recent album “11 Past the Hour” (2021) marks her fourth Number 1 album in Ireland and fourth Top 10 in the UK.
Imelda’s recent albums are a departure from her early rockabilly
revival style with a sound that sits firmly outside of any sharply
defined genre box, widely spanning blues, rock, soul, gospel and
jazz.
Imelda was discovered by Jools Holland, who asked her to support him on tour, and has gone on to perform alongside legendary artists including Lou Reed, Bono, Tom Jones, Noel Gallagher, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant, Van Morrison, Rod Stewart, Jeff Goldblum & Ronnie Wood. She has performed all over the world in front of royalty & politicians including Barack Obama. From the 52nd Grammy Awards with Jeff Beck to singing the Irish national
anthem in Las Vegas ahead of the Floyd Mayweather/Conor McGregor fight in 2017 with a reported TV audience of 1
billion people across 200 countries.
Her TV work spans from co-producing and presenting ‘The Imelda May Show’ series for RTE in 2018, co-hosting BBC’s Later with Jools Holland, to several recent productions co-produced for Sky Arts including the two part 'Voices of Ireland’ which won the Best Specialist Factual Award at the RTS Ireland Television Awards in 2022. Imelda curated, co-produced and starred in a festive special titled ‘Christmas in Ireland: Imelda & Friends’ with Red Shoe
Productions for SKY Arts and Tourism Ireland in 2023, a creative relationship which followed with the recent critical acclaim for her programme studying the lives of the Yeats sisters, 'Lily and Lolly Yeats: The Forgotten Yeats Sisters' in 2024. She just announced a documentary series Amhráin na nGael (Song of the Irish) to be released on RTE1 and RTE Player this fall.
In recent years Imelda has also turned her talent to the silver screen, appearing in her first major film role alongside
James Purefoy and Maggie Steed in ‘Fisherman’s Friends: One and All’, the sequel to the hit comedy Fisherman's
Friends.
The film entered the top 5 box office best sellers after its release in 2022. Her stunning portrayal of ‘villan’ Eve in ‘The People Before’, based on the psychological thriller by Charlotte Northedge, debuted at the Galway Film
Festival last year, and her role as Pierce Brosnan’s wife in ‘Four Letters of Love’ alongside Helena Bonham Carter
and Gabriel Byrne premiered at 2025’s Dublin Film Festival.
Not only has Imelda sold millions of records worldwide and forged a successful career on screen, she is also a
passionate activist and accomplished poet. Her poem “You Don’t Get To Be Racist and Irish” evoked an incredible
response on social media with the IRE government using it for their ‘ReThink Ireland’ campaign on billboards
throughout the country and has since been included in the Irish curriculum. In 2021 she released her debut poetry
book ‘A Lick & A Promise’ which instantly debuted at No.8 in the Irish Times Bestsellers Chart (Hardback Non Fiction)
and has since been reprinted in addition to a paperback & audiobook.
In 2025, in addition to 30 live shows with Jools Holland, 2 massive homecoming shows with The Corrs in Dublin & Cork, 3 UK shows supporting Sting and her own headline tour titled "Raised on Songs and Stories” across the UK,
Imelda made her return to the stage performing in the one woman play ‘Mother Of All The Behans’ at 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Everyman Theatre in Cork, Belfast Opera House and Theatre Royal Waterford. Based on the book by Brian Behan, adapted and directed by Peter Sheridan, the role sees her return to her critically acclaimed portrayal of the formidable Kathleen Behan with a soundtrack performed by herself. A proud advocate of Irish culture, Imelda remains a trailblazing and multifaceted artist.
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