Brigid Mae Power crafts introspective indie folk that merges atmospheric textures with both ethereal calm and fervent intensity. After issuing a pair of self-captured projects, she delivered her debut studio album, the drone-laden Brigid Mae Power, in 2016. Her follow-up full-length, The Two Worlds from 2018, confronted earlier trauma with greater resolve, whereas Dream from the Deep Well in 2023 wove original material together with renditions of Tim Buckley songs and traditional pieces. Those selections helped shape an ageless atmosphere and understated aesthetic, even as pedal steel and organ wove naturally into several full-band settings.
Born in London, Power remained there through her initial years until her Irish parents relocated the household to Galway once she turned 12. Button accordion came first, followed in adolescence by singing and piano; guitar, ukulele, and harmonium entered her instrumental range soon after.
Residing in New York during the late 2000s, she ended an unhealthy relationship by returning to Ireland. As a newly single mother she sustained herself with daytime employment until concluding that committing fully to live performance might not worsen her circumstances. Music became her sole occupation in 2013, the same year she released the largely home-captured EP Eee Tuts, one track of which was tracked inside an underground parking garage. The eight-song I Told You the Truth appeared the next year, captured live by Power inside Galway’s St. Nicholas’ Church. She shared stages with Peter Broderick throughout 2015, after which the American imprint Tompkins Square Records offered a deal. The label issued her first studio album, Brigid Mae Power, in 2016—the year she and Broderick wed. He recorded, mixed, and mastered the set at his Portland facility; it later drew praise from both NPR and the BBC.
Oscarson, a German vinyl specialist, put out the 12-inch EP The Ones You Keep Close in 2017, containing previously unrecorded older compositions alongside a reading of the English folk standard “As I Roved Out.” Tompkins Square released her second album, the abuse-centered The Two Worlds, the following year; she expanded on those experiences in a Me Too blog entry. Also in 2018, Live at Coughlan’s documented a show from her preceding tour alongside Ryley Walker.
After signing with Fire Records, Power issued Head Above the Water in June 2020. She co-produced the album with Broderick and singer-songwriter Alasdair Roberts, all three contributing instrumental performances. The 2021 covers EP Burning Your Light honored Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline among others. She returned in June 2023 with Dream from the Deep Well on Fire Records, an album that paired eight originals—ranging from sparse to fully arranged—with two traditional covers. A U.K. tour took place that September.
