Liverpool Philharmonic Hall has announced a world-class billing as the key music venue for the Liverpool Irish Festival 2010. Celebrating the links between Liverpool and Ireland the festival presents a range of events at venues across the city, with this, the 8th Liverpool Irish Festival promising to be the biggest and best to date.
With several events Liverpool Philharmonic Hall features some of the biggest names on the Irish music scene; both Christy Moore and Andy Irvine will be performing over two nights, whilst ‘The Irish Sea Sessions’, a new and exceptional collaboration project, brings together musicians from both sides of the water in a single unique musical event. Other highlights making the core of the music offering include Brian Kennedy, Kieran Goss, Julie Feeney, Ian Prowse and Damien Dempsey, all sitting alongside the festival’s traditional menu of heritage walks, talks, poetry, comedy, films and plays.
Jake Roney, Festival Director said: “Our 2010 programme is fantastic. The range of events and the quality of artists we have put together for this year’s festival is exceptional. Announcing world-class names such as Christy Moore, Brian Kennedy and Kieran Goss, in addition to the new, innovative and pioneering project of the Irish Sea Sessions forming the heart of this year’s offering, we have the hallmarks of a landmark festival.”
THE IRISH SEA SESSIONS
In the first of what is hoped to be a major annual event, the inaugural Irish Sea Sessions - part super group, part colossal session and part festival, all in a single gig - makes it debut and a festival first.
A mass rank of fourteen exceptional musicians from Liverpool, Ireland and the Irish diaspora will unite on one stage to enjoy the musical connections between the city, the land it looks out to across the waves, and those who pass through Liverpool en route to, or from, Ireland.
Simon Glinn, Executive Director at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall said, “Within the festival offering, the Irish Sea Sessions is certainly the key new event. This huge and exciting project recaptures the true spirit of the original and forgotten musical sessions that once took place at Liverpool's Irish Centre, and brings together a wealth of music and talent. With fourteen world-class artists, sharing our platform for this one-off event it’ll be an exciting collaboration of musicians and audiences from both sides of the Irish Sea, coming together to celebrate their shared history and music.”
The fourteen musicians sharing equal billing will spend the days leading up to the Irish Sea Sessions in the city, creating new arrangements of traditional tunes and each-other's songs, and presenting them here in session format but filling the stage of the concert hall. Guitars, flutes, pipes, singers, fiddles, bodhran, whistles and some of the most exciting musicianship you'll see, will combine to revel in the special bond between Liverpool, Ireland and the Irish and the music that is so much part of their identities.
The Irish Sea Sessions will feature Bernard O’Neill, Terry Coyne, Ian Prowse, Becky Taylor, Carlene Anglim, Colette O’Leary, Eimear McGeown, Niamh Parsons, Graham Dunne, Gino Lupari, Dave Munnelly, Damien Dempsey, Alan Burke, Lizzie Nunnery.
IRISH MUSIC LEGEND RETURNS
Festival favourite, Irish music legend, Christy Moore, is back! Direct from performing his Irish tour dates, Christy Moore arrives in the UK to headline this year’s Liverpool Irish Festival as part of his highly anticipated 2010 autumn tour. As one of only four UK performances this year, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall is very excited to play host to one of the best songwriters Ireland has ever produced.
Christy Moore commented: “I’m very much looking forward to Liverpool. I always think Liverpool has more songs written about it than any other city. It’s something to do with the spirit of music in the city.”
LIVERPOOL IRISH FESTIVAL 15 – 31 OCTOBER
Highlights at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall include:
Brian Kennedy
with special guest Julie Feeney
Friday 15 October 7.30pm
Andy Irvine
Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 October 8.30pm
Kieran Goss
Tuesday 19 October 8.30pm
Dara O’Briain
Thursday 28 October 8pm
The Irish Sea Sessions
Friday 22 October 7.30pm
Christy Moore
with Declan Sinnott
Friday 29 & Saturday 30 October 8pm
All festival music events are on sale Friday 16 July 2010.
To purchase tickets, please call the box office on 0151 709 3789 or order online at www.liverpoolphil.com
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