Kate Voegele - The Academy, Dublin

9th September, 2011

Kate Voegele first came to my attention playing the timid and lovable Mia on popular teen-drama, One Tree Hill. Voegele won the role of Mia shortly after the release of her first album, Don't Look Away, in 2007. Since then, she has released two more albums (she's currently touring with her latest, Gravity Happens) and is still a regular feature on One Tree Hill.

This was only her second time performing in Ireland (she played The Academy 2 last year) and it was definitely a case of practise makes perfect for Voegele. Having witnessed her début Irish performance, I was more than impressed to find that her vocals sounded even better the second-time round and in the bigger of the two venues.

Kate performed a 14-song acoustic set including a more than incredible performance of Britney Spears' Till The World Ends and a selection of some of her best tracks from the three albums. Her performance of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah was simply breath-taking and instantly brought the crowd to a standstill.

Voegele's crowd interaction was simply terrific, making sure to acknowledge those with banners while also managing to maintain eye contact with what seemed like every member of the crowd throughout the night. Voegele received a huge cheer of approval when she substituted the word 'Darlin' with 'Dublin' during her rendition of one of her newest songs, Say You're Mine. The singing and songwriting actress mentioned that she very much hopes to play a show in Ireland again very soon!