Delighted to announce that Madra Salach will make their Mike the Pies debut on Friday, 13th February 2026. A night you don’t want to miss.

Madra Salach are a six piece contemporary folk band from Dublin. Originally meeting whilst playing in various outfits on the city’s indie scene, their shared love of the Irish traditional canon led to Paul Banks, Adam Cullen, and Dara Duffy quickly forming a bond playing impromptu sessions in pubs around the Northside. A chance meeting between Paul Banks and Jack Martin of Dublin City Soul stalwarts Fizzy Orange was the beginning of a new chapter for the group, with the two partnering up to write original songs for the band and Martin bringing along fellow Fizzonian Maxime Arnold to join the ranks.

These songs, while strikingly modern thematically, are written with a voice that could have emerged at any point throughout the last century, and sit proudly alongside a thoughtfully curated collection of folk standards.