Copper Kelly

Copper Kelly is a country musician from Wexford, Ireland. He began playing guitar from a young age and began writing country music when, in 2017, he met the songwriter Dympna Walsh who handed Copper some lyrics. He composed and recorded what came to be “Don’t Steal This Moment”. The single received a lot of airplay on Irish radio stations. The success of this single inspired Copper to write and record his own album Worthwhile Waste of Time which was released independently in February 2019.

Having studied sound engineering in college, Copper performed, recorded and produced the album himself, with the help of Larissa Boland and Heather Turkington on vocals. Copper takes inspiration from outlaw country musicians such as Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams and Lynyrd Skynyrd while also retaining the sound of his Irish roots.