Singular Artists today announces that wildly popular indie pop artist and TikTok star Cat Burns will play The National Museum of Ireland, Collin Barracks, Dublin on Thursday 22nd August 2024. Cat will be joined by special guest, the chart-topping R&B pop musician Sam Tompkins.
Cat Burns joins James Blunt, THE THE, Deacon Blue, and Gossip as the fifth headliner to be announced for Wider Than Pictures 2024 – Singular Artists’ exceptional series of shows that are fast becoming a staple of summer in Dublin.
Cat Burns is a former BRIT school student who went from busking on the Southbank to mastering TikTok in lockdown, singing a mix of her favourite covers and original music. As a result, she rapidly amassed around half a million followers in just three months and now sits on over 1 million followers on the platform.
Cat’s Wider Than Pictures show comes shortly after her highly anticipated debut album early twenties is released on 12th July.
Cat is not only an astounding vocal talent but also an incredibly talented songwriter offering acute observations on life and love with a fresh perspective in her music. Drawing upon gospel influences, pop inspirations and a love of guitar-led and indie music too. She proudly cites Ed Sheeran, India Arie and Tori Kelly as a few of her biggest inspirations.
oining Cat Burns on the Wider Than Pictures line-up on 22nd August will be Sam Tompkins.
Hailing from Brighton, the 26-year-old former busker’s incredible vocal range and soul-stirring songs have made him a globally adored artist in just a few short years.
Since finding viral fame on TikTok in 2021, Sam Tompkins has risen to become one of the most important and fastest-selling British musicians of his generation, with four million monthly listeners on Spotify, a combined social media following of more than 2.2m and famous fans from Drake and Justin Bieber, to Sam Smith and Fred Again.
Sam’s performance will come shortly after the 24th May release of his debut album, Hi, My Name Is Insecure. Made up of 16 tracks, the record is a celebration of Sam’s genre-defying signature sound, which he describes as “emotive songwriter, cinematic pop”, spanning the breadth of human experience from love to loss.
Cat Burns and special guest Sam Tompkins play the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin on Thursday 22nd August 2024 as part of the Wider Than Pictures concert series (subject to venue licence).
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