Welcome to Let’s Talk About The Arts: A Moment with Arts presented by Fearghal Curtis. These mini episodes are a chance for you to sit down with a coffee, take a short walk or find a moment in your day to connect with The Arts. It’s a chance to get to hear from an artist, an organisation, or a charity about a project they are releasing and find out a little bit more about what has gone into getting this project out there into the world.

Today I’m joined by the versatile stylings of Rachel Goode.

A trained opera singer who still connects with her country and folk song roots, Rachel is releasing her first single, a cover of Loretta Lynn’s song ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ on Tuesday the 27th of July. But that’s not all that is happening on the 27th for her. Irish National Opera’s new opera ‘A Thing I Cannot Name’ will be streamed for the West Cork Literary Festival and Rachel is one of the three singers a part of the production.

It was my first episode of AMWTA in person and it was so gorgeous to share this with Rachel ahead of an exciting week.

Rachel also kindly shared a clip of her new single ahead of the release tomorrow.