Ramper – ‘Loner’ Album Tour.

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Critically-acclaimed Donegal alt-folk artist Declan McClafferty, a.k.a. Ramper will be bringing the launch tour of his album ‘Loner’ to Black Box on the 25th Mat 2025.

Originally written for a film that never came to fruition, ‘Mothers’ is set in the past and sung from the perspective of a forward-thinking young woman who dares to “dream beyond the horizon”—eventually butting heads with her paramour’s conservative mother. Nevertheless, there’s an empathy there as the narrator thinks of the mother, and how all she wants is for her son to lead a safe, secure life.

Ramper takes the best of primal rural simplicity and transports it into the future whilst telling the stories of our past and ever-changing present. Based on a childhood lived before the internet and in the Irish language first, Ramper captures those moments in time that are almost so simple you may not notice them at first, but when you let them settle hold a beauty that cuts through the noise. Much of his music ruminates on the slow erosion of our language and culture: “It’s not a right-wing approach that things should be conserved and locked down, or that other cultures are not welcome. It’s a lament that the culture of a place and skills like weaving, fishing or boat building are lost, while the people who should be carrying that on are in Australia and priced out of returning.”