The Mary Wallopers

Remember when we were holed up at home waiting for the pandemic to end and the OFF Festival to come back? That’s when The Mary Wallopers, back in Ireland, were playing electrifying online shows that brought together people desperate for human connection. Their punk versions of traditional Irish songs won them a major following and launched The Mary Wallopers – along with bands like Fontaines D.C., CMAT, and Kneecap – onto the new Green Wave, as the burgeoning Irish music scene is often labeled. “Folk got this name of being very meek or timid. There needs to be a voice that’s giving the rowdy side of folk back to people,” says one of the founding members of The Mary Wallopers. Hear, hear! And they’ll do just that at the OFF Festival!