News & Updates:
May 2026: It’s a good month. Warm weather is back, our latest EP, “Moonshine & Other Spirits” has received critical praise from media outlets and music blogs like Maximum Volume, The Whole Kameese, Americana UK, Turn Up the Volume!, Blood Makes Noise, and ClickRollBoom and Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners are averaging 1.7K monthly listeners on Spotify. Our single, “My Baby’s Happy” which features guest vocalist, Elisa Smith, who was recently presented with this year’s Josie Award down in Nashville at the Grand Opry, was streamed over 1,000 times in a couple of days. To close out the month, we landed a big show appearing on the same bill with country music star, Luke Bryan on May 30th.
April 2026: Another month full of shows, including a packed room at Underbones, playing with Krishna Guthrie, great grandson of Americana/folk music legend, Woody Guthrie (grandson of Arlo Guthie). Thanks to everyone who came out!
February 2026: In between some apres-ski gigs up at the mountains up north, the band recorded a video of our song “Don’t Let Perfect” in a moonshiner’s shed, as part of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. Check it out HERE.
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November 2025: It’s officially Christmas music season, so we put together a Spotify playlist featuring some of Kier’s Christmas music that he’s made over the years, as well as some of our other favorite holiday tunes. If you are a like minded Christmas music fan and down to share a bit of holiday spirit, CLICK HERE and please take a listen & save it to your holiday music collection!
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October 2025: Award season continues! Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners are nominated for “Americana Artist of the Year” in the 2025 Boston Music Awards. Gotta Know Medford discusses the local musical community with Kier and others in this article.
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August 2025: Festival season is in full swing for Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners over the next few weeks: Tall Ships Oktoberfest, Park City Southie, as well as various Oktoberfests with various breweries such as Jack’s Abby (Framingham, MA), Arlington Brewery Co, (at Write-Locke’s Farm, Winchester, MA) and Anheuser Busch Brewery in Merrimack, NH. Another notable event is that Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners have been invited to be the house band for a special Mass Humanities event where the Dropkick Murphys’ own Ken Casey will be awarded “Storyteller of the Year” by Governor Healey.
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June 2025: Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners headline The New England Americana Fest. As part of the celebration, the band is releasing a. 5 song EP called “Dances by Firelight“. The New England Americana Fest will serve both as the band’s EP release party as well as their last show before heading to Europe.
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May 2025: “Before the Fall” EP has been received really well; receiving radio airplay from all over the world, from the local stations in Boston, MA, USA to Victoria, Australia. It was also chosen as “The Reader’s Pick” of the week by Twangville.com and in The Alternate Root’s Weekly Top Ten. The EP also scored a 9/10 by Maximum Volume Music (UK).
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December 2024: Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners won the 2024 New England Music Award for “Americana Act of the Year”. Read more!
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