Friday 6th November, 8.00pm A second Andromeda Artisans showcase featuring 4 of leading singer songwriters from Donegal. Songwriter, guitarist and producer Mark S Black has developed a very distinctive ‘roots blues’ style. Kate O’ Callaghan combines evocative melodies with intelligent, considered lyrics. Paul Tully has already performed at the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival…...
Beatles v Stones v Cancer (Irl)
Saturday 31st October, 8.00pm Letterkenny’s finest musical collective are once again getting it on with some of the town’s biggest vocal talents and musicians and performing a selection of beautifully weird and downright dirty Beatles and Rolling Stones tunes for this special Halloween Cancer Bus Fundraiser hosted by MC Derek O’Connor.…...
In Their Thousands + Color//Sound + clanns + Our Native State + For Foresters (Irl)
Friday 9th October, 8pm An Andromeda Artisans showcase featuring 5 of the best emerging bands from the North West. In Their Thousands live set changes from stunning vocal harmony laced acoustic acapella folk to edgy electric alternative rock in a seamless progressive crescendo. Color//Sound deliver soaring melodies, frenzied rhythm, and infectious…...
Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band (USA)
Saturday 19th September, 12.30pm What takes anti-folk songwriter/comic-book artist Jeffrey Lewis’s fancy these days is collaborating with Peter Stampfel, a dapper 76-year-old Manhattanite. A founding member of the Greenwich Village beatnik/folk outfit the Holy Modal Rounders (in addition to being featured on the Easy Rider soundtrack, and more notable albums and…...
Lynched (Irl)
Friday 2nd October, 8.00pm Lynched are a four-piece traditional folk group from Dublin, Ireland, who combine distinctive four-part vocal harmonies with arrangements of uilleann pipes, concertina, Russian accordion, fiddle and guitar. Their repertoire spans humorous Dublin music-hall ditties and street-songs, classic ballads from the Traveller tradition, traditional Irish and American…...
Ulaid – John McSherry, Dónal O’Connor & Seán Óg Graham (Irl)
Friday 23rd October, 8.00pm John McSherry (Uilleann Pipes), Dónal O’Connor (Fiddle) & Seán Óg Graham (Guitar) When three of traditional music’s leading lights collaborate on a new CD you can expect sparks to fly!! John McSherry and Dónal O’Connor are the creative force behind the highly innovative traditional band At…...
GoGo Penguin (UK)
Wednesday 28th October, 8.00pm Music Network Presents GoGo Penguin Acoustic electronica trio GoGo Penguin, an exhilarating jazz-infused salvo of spacey chords, stuttering break-beats and killer riffs, create a brave new sound that is wholly their own. Packing the dance floors with an infectious combination of frenetic break-beats, irresistible piano melodies…...
Kathleen MacInnes, Dermot Byrne, Brian Finnegan & Mike Vass (Irl/Sco)
Saturday 19th September, 8.00pm Music Network Presents Kathleen MacInnes, Dermot Byrne, Brian Finnegan & Mike Vass A mouth-watering prospect as four Irish and Scottish trad trailblazers come together for the first time in a specially-curated Music Network line-up. Hebridean singer Kathleen MacInnes is joined onstage by Donegal accordion maestro Dermot…...
