April 2, 2020

Check out the review of our new album “Sparrow” that appeared in the April issue of Irish Music Magazine!

March 5, 2020

We received a lot of great press for our CD release show on March 8. Check out the preview in the Wheat Ridge Transcript here, and the shout-out in Westword here. Thanks for the love!

July 26, 2017

Check out Adam’s interview on this week’s episode WellAttended Podcast! Adam talks about the value of creating art in a niche market and also highlights the history of Avourneen!

June 12, 2017

We were honored to play for the Denver Contra Dance in May, and we were honored to be featured on CNN! Check out the video here!

6/8/2017

We’re only a few days away from the Cheyenne Musical Arts Festival! Check out our interview from last year with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle here, and head to the event to see us play on June 10!

3/20/2016

Avourneen on CPR

Follow the link below to hear Adam’s Saint Patrick’s Day interview on Colorado Matters!

https://www.cpr.org/news/story/obsession-irish-music-turned-success-denvers-avourneen

6/18/15

Check Out Our Interview With AXS!!!

“When listening to Avourneen’s 2014 debut album, Beloved, one might think they are hearing the latest work from The Decemberists. However, Colin Meloy’s gang are not the group behind Avourneen’s modern Irish folk music. “Celtic music is the overarching theme for us, but we cover a whole range of folk idioms via a whole range of different instruments,” Avourneen’s guitarist, harmonica player, and vocalist, Adam Goldstein, recently told AXS. “I play guitar and harmonica, CL Morden plays violin and Aeryk Parker, our talented multi-instrumentalist, plays Irish drum (called the ‘bodhran’), tin whistle, saxophone and flute. Even someone with only passing familiarity with Irish music could find something to appreciate in just the instrumentation.” All the members of this Denver-based Irish folk trio offered their opinions and perspectives in this exclusive interview.”

10/12/14

We’re on TV!

Thanks to Eden Lane for the shout-out on this week’s episode of “In Focus.” Check out the video here:

Thanks for the coverage!

10/22/14

Letter to WERU radio, Belfast, ME

Adam Goldstein’s music—a new fan writes.

Just when you thought there was nothing new a love song could do, along comes mature, new Adam Goldstein.

New to us. He is known locally in the Denver, Colorado area as “Denver’s only Irish Jew” for all his Celtic music, especially at the famous Lannie’s Cabaret at The Clocktower in the 16^th street Mall—in case you, like many, get there some night.

Two newly released CD’s: “Avourneen” a Celtic word for ”Beloved” and truly the songs and handy instrumental accompaniments bespeak the sweet and crazy Eros we know from the Celts.

His personal six-song CD is entitle “Old Love Songs and Other Unhealthy Fixations.” You get the tone: ironic, persistent, psychological love, and all the crashing and burning that go with that.

But Goldstein sails and flies as much as he nose dives and he does it in lilting original words and musicality that intrigues and hold. Holds is a good word here. Hs songs hold your attention. You can make out the revelations of the words, and they hold in in mind and heart afterword.

You feel that you have been to the door, the window, the microscope of a man’s heart, a gentleman’s heart, beseeching, composed, jilted. And, oh, so lyrical and literate. How many love songs do you know that have a phrase to rhyme with “Edgar Allen Poe” or “Venus with a scar upon her chin” in some Renaissance urban déjà vu.

These songs, both albums, are clear, intricate, pure and feel-able. You come away not only entertained, but maintained, sustained, contained and you will want to be retained. The music holds.

By day Goldstein is a well-read journalist in Denver, reporting on the arts scene, the news, and the life he sees and feel around about him, even if his heart is often in the rustic counties of Ireland, or the coast of Maine, or wondering just exactly what love can be these days.

 D. Newcomer

10/30/2014

Social media response to “Beloved” by Avourneen

“I got this four days ago and can’t hardly listen to anything else. Seriously. This album is beautiful and speaks to a place in my soul. You have a new and lifelong fan in Seattle!”

– A.R. in Seattle, WA