Wexford musician to perform on RTE’s Late Late Show this Friday

It’s not often that opportunities like this arise…

A young Wexford musician is set to perform under the lights on a national stage this coming Friday.

Young Wexford town musician, Jesse Sludds, will be performing live on this Friday’s Late Late Show, hosted by Patrick Kielty. After some behind-closed-doors auditions, Jesse has been annonuced as a finalist for this week’s live show — which aims to find Ireland’s next Country Music star.

Sludds confirmed the news to his social media followers on Wednesday afternoon, appealing to his followers to tune in and to vote for him.

A vote for Jesse could see him be announced as the opening act for Shania Twain.

“I’m in with a chance to win support for ShaniaTtwain and open the Late Late Show Country Special later in the year! But I need your help! It’s a public live vote on Frida, so i would love for you guys to watch and if i could get youre vote- it would be amazing. See yous Friday,” the Wexford man said.

Jessie said he will be dedicating his performance on this week’s Late Late show to his Grandad and that he’ll be carrying a picture of him in his pocket. He noted that “without him, I wouldn’t be here.”

The Wexford man expressed his thanks to all of his followers for their support following the announcement that he will be performing on RTÉ’s The Late Late Show. Tune into RTÉ’s The Late Late Show this Friday (17 April) at 9:30pm.