Feist on the woman who drew her back to play in Cork again 

The Canadian singer headlines Sounds From A Safe Harbour, a return to Leeside that she puts down to the creative force behind the festival 

Feist headlines the Sounds From A Safe Harbour festival. Picture: Mary Rozzi  

Leslie Feist is speaking in eloquently glowing terms about a certain Cork woman. “Listen, I would go to the ends of the earth for Mary Hickson,” she says, leaning enthusiastically towards her laptop screen.

She’s backstage at Edmonton Folk Festival in her native Canada, after a sound check. “I would go to the ends of the earth, and do anything she ever suggested, let alone asked. She’s the midwife, the godmother, the co-conspirator for me for a huge piece of time that was the pandemic and a renewal in my interest in making music.”