Freya Ridings on her Cork connections: 'This family were holding up a piece of paper'
Freya Ridings is releasing a new album and performing Irish dates. Picture: Simon Emmett
Freya Ridings had quite the experience the last time she appeared in Cork. “I was literally playing, and this family came down to the front holding up a piece of paper. I couldn’t quite read it because I was playing guitar and then they shouted: ‘We’re family!’”
Ridings, whose mother's family have roots in the Rebel County, explains: “They’d worked out that our great-grandmothers were twin sisters. One of them had stayed in Cork, and the other one had left. There were literally about 11 or 12 of them at the show, and it honestly made me well up at the end.
