Passion can’t be bought

Gerry Tully is a native of County Meath, Ireland. A natural, self-taught musician, who has been performing since his early teens. At age 16 he played guitar in his father’s band but soon moved into a rock band, trad duos and trios.

His first venture into recording happened in his early 20s with his EP Grist for the Mill. From then on Gerry worked on the music circuit around County Meath and Leinster. In 2002 Gerry toured Ireland, England and Germany with the traditional group Cóisir and made an appearance on Seamus Begley’s award-winning program Gantrí on TG4.

Soon after he toured in Europe and America for 3 years as guitarist and vocalist with Derek Warfield, one of the founding members of the renowned band The Wolfe Tones. Gerry left the band to pursue musical creativity, producing his debut album Leaves Float Down in 2008. The album has thirteen self-penned songs was album of the month on musicreview.com. The album was well received and enjoyed generous airplay in Ireland and abroad. That year Gerry performed alongside Don Baker, Ronnie Drew, and Finbar Furey on part of their “Working Class Heroes” Irish tour. He also featured at the Folk en Pagaille festival in France in 2012 and returned the following year to headline the event. In 2014 he opened the first ever Irish festival weekend dedicated to the music of Leonard Cohen in Dublin’s Liberty Hall. Gerry launched his Maverick EP on the night, which included his version of Cohen’s Hallelujah. Read a review of the event HERE

In 2016 Gerry completed a BA degree in English Literature and Philosophy. His philosophical view is evident in songs like Strange Beasts, Little Gadfly. Gerry shared his political perspective of the world in songs like, Rise Up and The Fracking song. Each of these songs were included in his 2017 release of ‘Things Heard’ a collection of folk songs from Ireland, Scotland, and England.

2018 he gathered a band and played a sell-out show of ‘Love, Sex and Death’ The Songs Of Leonard Cohen in Brogan’s Hotel, Trim. Sadly all subsequent shows that were scheduled had to be cancelled when the Covid pandemic shut down the world and left the music business in disarray.

During those bleak months, Gerry did a weekly Facebook live request shows which garnered huge online support in Ireland and abroad. The regional radio station, LMFM invited Gerry to perform his original works on their Facebook page which was very well received. In 2020 Sofft Productions and Meath Arts Office began an initiative to re-invigorate the music industry selecting artists across Meath to record and highlight on Hotpress youtube channel. Gerry was chosen for the series where he debuted his original song Strange Beasts .

In 2019 Gerry appeared as the guest of The Legend of Luke Kelly band in Vicar Street at the 35th anniversary show commemorating the life and music of folk singer, Luke Kelly. Soon after that Gerry joined the band performing with them until 2026.

Gerry is currently touring with his new solo show Gerry Tully Sings The Christy Moore Songbook. performing a mix of classics spanning Moore’s career.