News & Updates:
October 21, 2025: Award season continues! Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners are nominated for “Americana Artist of the Year” in the 2025 Boston Music Awards. If you want to show your support, please drop them a vote: HERE!
August 12, 2025: Festival season is in full swing for Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners over the next few weeks: Tall Ships Oktoberfest, Park City Southie, as well as various Oktoberfests with various breweries such as Jack’s Abby (Framingham, MA), Arlington Brewery Co, (at Write-Locke’s Farm, Winchester, MA) and Anheuser Busch Brewery in Merrimack, NH. Another notable event is that Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners have been invited to be the house band for a special Mass Humanities event where the Dropkick Murphys’ own Ken Casey will be awarded “Storyteller of the Year” by Govenor Healey.
June 28, 2025: Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners will headline The New England Americana Fest. As part of the celebration, the band is releasing a. 5 song EP called “Dances by Firelight“. The New England Amerivana Fest will serve both as the band’s EP release party as well as their last show before heading to Europe.
May 15, 2025: “Before the Fall” EP has been received really well. The Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners EP received radio airplay from all over the world, from the local stations in Boston, MA, USA to Victoria, Australia. It was also chosen as “The Reader’s Pick” of the week by Twangville.com and in The Alternate Root’s Weekly Top Ten. The EP also scored a 9/10 by Maximum Volume Music (UK).
December 2024: Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners won the 2024 New England Music Award for Americana Act of the Year. Read more!
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