Mick Flannery has been living with Evening Train for twenty years. The Cork singer-songwriter wrote those eleven songs about two brothers and a dying Irish town as a second-year student at a Cork music school; they became his 2005 debut album and, after two decades of workshops and rewrites, the source material for his first-ever stage musical. That musical premiered on stage this past April. The double album followed in May. When Flannery plays The Falcon in Marlboro on Wednesday, November 11, he is less than a year into sharing a story he has been shaping since he was twenty.
About the Show
Flannery’s ninth studio album and first double album, The House Must Win (released May 8 via One Riot Records), is a 20-song collection built around the world premiere stage production, which ran from April 16 through May 3, 2026. Half the songs are original to the musical; the other half are Evening Train reimagined, all recorded at Monique Studios in Cork with a seven-piece live band. Flannery described his core ensemble as musicians who have “been working on these arrangements with us for the past few years.” The record’s collaborators include Grammy winner Anaïs Mitchell, who appears on lead single “Rising Tide,” a delicate ballad drawn from a near-drowning memory as metaphor for the characters’ emotional state, and Mercury Prize winner Lisa Hannigan. No support act has been announced for the Marlboro show.
This stop falls in the middle of a short November US run: after Mountain Stage in Charleston, West Virginia on November 8 and The Cock ‘n Bull in Galway, New York on November 9, Flannery moves on to The Bitter End in New York City on November 12.
Venue & Logistics
For an Irish singer-songwriter whose career includes four No. 1 albums back home and a win at the International Songwriting Competition in Nashville, the year Tom Waits served as a judge, a 150-person room in the Hudson Valley is about as close as it gets on this side of the Atlantic. That Flannery’s songs work this way, built for intimate rooms and careful listening, makes The Falcon a natural fit. He played this same stage in March 2025, so Wednesday is a return rather than a debut. Dinner service runs from 5:30 to 9 p.m.; music begins at 7:30. No reservations required.
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