Maija Sofia makes the most of island life during her time in Cobh 

The Galway singer-songwriter has tuned into the Co Cork town's links to huge historical events during her time as artist-in-residence at Sirius 

Maija Sofia.

The music of Galway singer-songwriter Maija Sofia is steeped in melancholia and history, drawing on the folk idiom and punk’s DIY ethic.

That same sense of melancholy seems to be aptly equipped, then, for a winter residency at Cobh’s Sirius Arts Centre, amid the current circumstances. Spending three months, including the current lockdown, within 5k of the former yacht club.