Joe Chester
@joechester.bsky.social
Musician, composer & producer from Ireland
Living in France
LUCIA for Guitar & Strings https://joechester.bandcamp.com/album/lucia
AU REVOIR TRISTESSE - Cinq Bagatelles pour Guitare https://lnk.fuga.com/aurevoirtristesse
https://linktr.ee/joechester
Living in France
LUCIA for Guitar & Strings https://joechester.bandcamp.com/album/lucia
AU REVOIR TRISTESSE - Cinq Bagatelles pour Guitare https://lnk.fuga.com/aurevoirtristesse
https://linktr.ee/joechester
Thank you President Higgins and Sabina for 14 years of dignity and humanity in the Áras! Buíochas ó chroí! ❤️ @president.ie #MichaelDHiggins
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Thank you President Higgins and Sabina for 14 years of dignity and humanity in the Áras! Buíochas ó chroí! ❤️ @president.ie #MichaelDHiggins
***Low Ticket Warning***
The good folks at TradFest tell us there are only limited tickets left for our performance at Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
We are all so excited to play our music in this historic and special place!
The good folks at TradFest tell us there are only limited tickets left for our performance at Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
We are all so excited to play our music in this historic and special place!
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
***Low Ticket Warning***
The good folks at TradFest tell us there are only limited tickets left for our performance at Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
We are all so excited to play our music in this historic and special place!
The good folks at TradFest tell us there are only limited tickets left for our performance at Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
We are all so excited to play our music in this historic and special place!
Hardest thing I’ve ever done but a proud man in Paris this morning. Master Musicien, Ingénieur du Son.
October 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Hardest thing I’ve ever done but a proud man in Paris this morning. Master Musicien, Ingénieur du Son.
Patti Smith Group blew the roof of the Olympia in Paris tonight! Best I’ve ever seen them!
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Patti Smith Group blew the roof of the Olympia in Paris tonight! Best I’ve ever seen them!
Patreon Exclusive : Revox Tape 1
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October 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Patreon Exclusive : Revox Tape 1
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National Concert Hall, Dublin 2025 had a wonderful first day of release - thank you to all who listened and bought the album, driving it to the top of the Contemporary Classical chart overnight! How wonderful!
joechester.bandcamp.com/album/nation...
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September 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
National Concert Hall, Dublin 2025 had a wonderful first day of release - thank you to all who listened and bought the album, driving it to the top of the Contemporary Classical chart overnight! How wonderful!
joechester.bandcamp.com/album/nation...
joechester.bandcamp.com/album/nation...
Tracklist Cont.
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Allemande)
Nuvoluccia in her Lightdress
Une soie, énervante et douce
Port na bPúcaí
Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór
La mer, son rythme incessant
Beckett
La lune, aimable et tranquille
Les yeux fermés, bonjour tristesse
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Sarabande)
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Allemande)
Nuvoluccia in her Lightdress
Une soie, énervante et douce
Port na bPúcaí
Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór
La mer, son rythme incessant
Beckett
La lune, aimable et tranquille
Les yeux fermés, bonjour tristesse
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Sarabande)
September 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Tracklist Cont.
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Allemande)
Nuvoluccia in her Lightdress
Une soie, énervante et douce
Port na bPúcaí
Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór
La mer, son rythme incessant
Beckett
La lune, aimable et tranquille
Les yeux fermés, bonjour tristesse
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Sarabande)
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Allemande)
Nuvoluccia in her Lightdress
Une soie, énervante et douce
Port na bPúcaí
Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór
La mer, son rythme incessant
Beckett
La lune, aimable et tranquille
Les yeux fermés, bonjour tristesse
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Sarabande)
Released this Friday, high resolution 24-96k streaming and download exclusively on Bandcamp.
This was a very special and meaningful evening for me and I'm delighted to have a document of it! Can't wait for you to hear it.
Tracklist
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Prelude)
This was a very special and meaningful evening for me and I'm delighted to have a document of it! Can't wait for you to hear it.
Tracklist
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Prelude)
September 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Released this Friday, high resolution 24-96k streaming and download exclusively on Bandcamp.
This was a very special and meaningful evening for me and I'm delighted to have a document of it! Can't wait for you to hear it.
Tracklist
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Prelude)
This was a very special and meaningful evening for me and I'm delighted to have a document of it! Can't wait for you to hear it.
Tracklist
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Prelude)
Au Revoir Tristesse has been out for 2 weeks already and what a whilrwind it's been. Just now taking a breath! Thank you for all your lovely messages and to all who have bought, downloaded and streamed it so far! I'll be posting another video soon, in the meantime I hope you are enjoying it!
June 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Au Revoir Tristesse has been out for 2 weeks already and what a whilrwind it's been. Just now taking a breath! Thank you for all your lovely messages and to all who have bought, downloaded and streamed it so far! I'll be posting another video soon, in the meantime I hope you are enjoying it!
Very much looking forward to engaging with the wonderful Tonebase community tomorrow!
Link for a free trial here -
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Link for a free trial here -
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June 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Very much looking forward to engaging with the wonderful Tonebase community tomorrow!
Link for a free trial here -
www.tonebase.co/guitar?utm_s...
Link for a free trial here -
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Keeping some rarefied and exalted company over on Bandcamp. joechester.bandcamp.com/album/au-rev...
June 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Keeping some rarefied and exalted company over on Bandcamp. joechester.bandcamp.com/album/au-rev...
Here it is, Au Revoir Tristesse, album NO. 8 released today! Find it on Vinyl, CD and streaming in all the usual places.
I really want to thank Niamh Ní Chonchubhair, Aifric Ní Ruairc and all at Axis Ballymun who commissioned this music, Steve Wickham whose beautiful painting graces the cover,
I really want to thank Niamh Ní Chonchubhair, Aifric Ní Ruairc and all at Axis Ballymun who commissioned this music, Steve Wickham whose beautiful painting graces the cover,
June 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Here it is, Au Revoir Tristesse, album NO. 8 released today! Find it on Vinyl, CD and streaming in all the usual places.
I really want to thank Niamh Ní Chonchubhair, Aifric Ní Ruairc and all at Axis Ballymun who commissioned this music, Steve Wickham whose beautiful painting graces the cover,
I really want to thank Niamh Ní Chonchubhair, Aifric Ní Ruairc and all at Axis Ballymun who commissioned this music, Steve Wickham whose beautiful painting graces the cover,
It’s been so busy that I almost didn’t take time to appreciate I have a new album coming out this Friday. I can’t wait to share it with you especially those of you who are coming to the NCH on Friday evening! I’m back out in RTE to play a couple of pieces for Arena this evening between 7-8! Tune in!
June 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It’s been so busy that I almost didn’t take time to appreciate I have a new album coming out this Friday. I can’t wait to share it with you especially those of you who are coming to the NCH on Friday evening! I’m back out in RTE to play a couple of pieces for Arena this evening between 7-8! Tune in!
Such a lovely time at BBC Broadcasting House in Belfast this morning playing live and chatting with John Toal. Great pleasure to meet Oliver Jeffers and future basketball star Harlan. I played Une soie, énervante et douce live and you can listen back on BBC Sounds.
June 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Such a lovely time at BBC Broadcasting House in Belfast this morning playing live and chatting with John Toal. Great pleasure to meet Oliver Jeffers and future basketball star Harlan. I played Une soie, énervante et douce live and you can listen back on BBC Sounds.
Late arrival last night and up early to catch the train to Belfast! I have the “old box” with me and I’ll be playing live on BBC Radio Ulster between 11 and 1 with John Toal. Tune in on BBC Sounds worldwide.
June 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Late arrival last night and up early to catch the train to Belfast! I have the “old box” with me and I’ll be playing live on BBC Radio Ulster between 11 and 1 with John Toal. Tune in on BBC Sounds worldwide.
Tune in to BBC Classical Connections this evening where I’ll be talking to John Toal about the new album, Au Revoir Tristesse and the album launch at the National Concert Hall on June 13th. Available worldwide on BBC Sounds.
June 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Tune in to BBC Classical Connections this evening where I’ll be talking to John Toal about the new album, Au Revoir Tristesse and the album launch at the National Concert Hall on June 13th. Available worldwide on BBC Sounds.
Thank you so much to the wonderful @fiachnaobraonain.bsky.social for playing La mer, son rhythme incessant (The sea, its incessant rhythm) on @rteradio1.bsky.social this morning! Only 3 weeks till the release of Au Revoir Tristesse!
May 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Thank you so much to the wonderful @fiachnaobraonain.bsky.social for playing La mer, son rhythme incessant (The sea, its incessant rhythm) on @rteradio1.bsky.social this morning! Only 3 weeks till the release of Au Revoir Tristesse!
There's Briany Brannigan in the New York Times. There'll be no talking to him now.
May 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
There's Briany Brannigan in the New York Times. There'll be no talking to him now.
4 weeks from today I'll be launching Au Revoir Tristesse with a very special show at Dublin's National Concert Hall (Kevin Barry Room)
Tickets are available from www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
I'll be chatting about the album with Paula Wiseman on @nearfm.ie this morning - tune in!
Tickets are available from www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
I'll be chatting about the album with Paula Wiseman on @nearfm.ie this morning - tune in!
May 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
4 weeks from today I'll be launching Au Revoir Tristesse with a very special show at Dublin's National Concert Hall (Kevin Barry Room)
Tickets are available from www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
I'll be chatting about the album with Paula Wiseman on @nearfm.ie this morning - tune in!
Tickets are available from www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
I'll be chatting about the album with Paula Wiseman on @nearfm.ie this morning - tune in!
Behind the scenes filming at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. New video for Une soie, énervante et douce (A silken web, languid and soft) coming this Friday! #aurevoirtristesse #bonjourtristesse #françoisesagan
May 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Behind the scenes filming at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. New video for Une soie, énervante et douce (A silken web, languid and soft) coming this Friday! #aurevoirtristesse #bonjourtristesse #françoisesagan
The live session we recorded for Louise Duffy is on @rteradio1.bsky.social right now! We had a blast recording in the legendary Studio 8 and chatting with Louise. Tune in worldwide on the RTE website! @alazarussoul.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The live session we recorded for Louise Duffy is on @rteradio1.bsky.social right now! We had a blast recording in the legendary Studio 8 and chatting with Louise. Tune in worldwide on the RTE website! @alazarussoul.bsky.social
Next Friday sees the release of the first (and only) single from my new album Au Revoir Tristesse so I spent a wonderful day today filming videos at the magnificent Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris!
Merci infiniment à toute l’équipe du CCI!
#aurevoirtristesse #bonjourtristesse #françoisesagan
Merci infiniment à toute l’équipe du CCI!
#aurevoirtristesse #bonjourtristesse #françoisesagan
May 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Next Friday sees the release of the first (and only) single from my new album Au Revoir Tristesse so I spent a wonderful day today filming videos at the magnificent Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris!
Merci infiniment à toute l’équipe du CCI!
#aurevoirtristesse #bonjourtristesse #françoisesagan
Merci infiniment à toute l’équipe du CCI!
#aurevoirtristesse #bonjourtristesse #françoisesagan
Au Revoir Tristesse album launch at NCH Dublin, June 13th. Tickets from www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
Hope to see lots of you there!
#AuRevoirTristesse #BonjourTristesse #FrancoiseSagan
Hope to see lots of you there!
#AuRevoirTristesse #BonjourTristesse #FrancoiseSagan
April 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Au Revoir Tristesse album launch at NCH Dublin, June 13th. Tickets from www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
Hope to see lots of you there!
#AuRevoirTristesse #BonjourTristesse #FrancoiseSagan
Hope to see lots of you there!
#AuRevoirTristesse #BonjourTristesse #FrancoiseSagan
Me and the old Gretsch. Epic photo set of our Vicar Street show last Friday by Colm Kelly over on the Hotpress website.
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April 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Me and the old Gretsch. Epic photo set of our Vicar Street show last Friday by Colm Kelly over on the Hotpress website.
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