Irish pianist and composer Jamie Duffy brings his folk-classical hybrid to Mackintosh Queens Cross on Garscube Road.
Jamie Duffy plays Mackintosh Queens Cross on Friday 20 November, part of his 2026 tour across the UK. He's a 24-year-old Irish pianist and composer who's built his following on a folk-classical hybrid that blends modern classical, Irish traditional and folk music with cinematic and ambient pop elements. The sound is carried by intimate piano melodies and tin whistle, and it's clearly found a home with a younger, digital-native audience: he's got more than 115 million TikTok views, and his debut single Solas is cited as the most-streamed debut song by an Irish artist since Hozier's Take Me To Church, with over 100 million Spotify streams.
That blend of folk and classical is exactly what he's bringing to Glasgow. The piano is the centre of it, but the tin whistle adds that traditional Irish thread, and the cinematic, ambient pop elements give it a wider, more atmospheric feel. It's a sound that sits somewhere between a concert hall and a folk club, and Solas is the track that put him on the map.
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The Glasgow date is one stop on a 2026 tour that takes him across the UK, so this is his turn in the city. He'll be playing at Mackintosh Queens Cross, 870 Garscube Rd, Glasgow, G20 7EL, on Friday 20 November at 7pm. Tickets are £22.
