Jess Kavanagh is putting some real bite in her Barq

Not many bands, little over a year into their career, get to drop anecdotes about having a drink in LA with “one of the lads from Def Leppard” and Kiss’s tour manager — yet it isn’t that surprising when Jess Kavanagh, the singer from the agrosoul Dublin four-piece Barq, reveals just that.
Kavanagh, 31, has been in various soul/funk bands over the past ten years, loaned vocals to the likes of Lethal Dialect (“the Irish Nas”), Jape, and Le Galaxie, and toured the world as a backing singer for the likes of Hozier and Kodaline.