Sara Gerdine – Déjà Vu

There’s something quietly compelling about the premise at the heart of Sara Gerdine’s “Déjà Vu” (meeting someone for the very first time and yet feeling as though you’ve known them before). It’s a very common human experience, one that’s notoriously difficult to articulate, and Gerdine takes that sense of the inexplicable and turns it into a rather nice folk song. It’s a warm acoustic piece with very expressive vocals and lyrics that are very much about the feeling of connection and intuition rather than any kind of overtly romantic story. It’s a very intimate piece of songwriting in which the feeling is allowed to develop rather than being forced into a narrative.

Gerdine’s musicality is firmly in the folk, Americana and country camp with a very strong classical vocal training underpinning it. “Déjà Vu” is a perfect example of that blend, having the warmth of the traditional and the feel of a modern day singer songwriter. Her vocals are the emotional core of the piece and the acoustic arrangement is very much in the background, serving the song and its mood rather than the other way around. There’s a very strong element of storytelling in her writing, very much in the tradition of melody and emotional truth. It’s a song that is very much of the moment and yet allows you to find your own experience in it. She doesn’t go for the showy, the over the top musical gesture at all, it’s the feeling of the song that drives it and that’s what gives it such a quiet, powerful significance.

Originally from the west of Ireland and brought up in a musical family, Gerdine started writing songs very early on when she picked up the guitar. She’s performed at a number of festivals including Celtic Connections, the Galway Fringe Festival and the Boyle Arts Festival. Her music has also been picked up by Hot Press, Amazing Radio and a number of the regional papers (Connacht Tribune, Galway Advertiser, Tuam Herald). Her win in the European Folk category at the InterContinental Music Awards for “Sky Blue” was the culmination of a very promising development as a songwriter. “Déjà Vu” is a track that continues that story and is a very good example of her ability to take a fairly mundane, difficult to describe emotion and make it into something that is melodic, emotional and very relatable. It’s a single released on 30th October 2026 and is another very strong indicator of where Gerdine is as a songwriter. A very promising voice indeed.

“I wanted the song to capture a feeling many people have experienced but find difficult to describe.”

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