Edinburgh/Dublin artist Iona Zajac is back with “Summer,” her first single since 2023, it’s a haunting track that highlights Zajac’s powerful yet restrained vocals. These very vocals have earned her a dedicated following and opportunities to perform alongside acclaimed artists such as Mercury Rev, Arab Strap, Lankum, John Francis Flynn, Anna B Savage, and Cassandra Jenkins.
Zajac’s rising star continues to shine. After a memorable performance opening for and singing with The Pogues in Dublin last December, she’ll rejoin them this spring as a vocalist for their May UK tour. She’ll be sharing the stage and vocal duties with the likes of Nadine Shah, John Francis Flynn, Lisa O’Neill, and Lankum’s Daragh Lynch. But not only this, Zajac is currently on the road supporting Alison Moyet.
Of ‘Summer,’ Zajac states
As Jack’s mother says in the fable Death in the Nut: ‘without death there can be no life.’ Summer starts with a dream as many of my songs do, and a morning penny-drop realisation that we need more than love to be good for someone. It’s about my tendency to bury sadness in order to continue. It’s about the necessary fragility of life and forcing hard feelings in to make way for the good. Emily Dickinson’s poem got inside my head like the drum that beats at her own imagined funeral march. I give a verse to her.
