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Homelights Tour in Galway

  • 04-12-2009 4:27pm
    #1
    tonyhiggins
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    Kelly’s, Galway – Fri Dec 4th

    Doors 8pm, tickets €10, €12 on door

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    HOMELIGHTS 2009 – the tour!

    Adrian Crowley

    James Yorkston

    Alasdair Roberts

    Further to them announcement of the HOMELIGHTS 2009 festival featuring Adrian Crowley and a stellar cast of friends and influences comes HOMELIGHTS THE TOUR taking in shows in Belfast, Galway, Cork and Kilkenny. For these shows Adrian Crowley will be joined by acclaimed modern day folk artist James Yorkston who was an integral early member of Fife’s Fence Collective and is currently recording for influential independent record label Domino Records. Yorkston released his fourth studio album in 2008, When The Haar Rolls In. The album featured guests appearances from English folk legends Norma and Mike Waterson and was accompanied by a remix disc and a cover versions disc, the latter of which featured Adrian Crowley himself. He followed that this year with Folk Songs, a self explanatory collection learned from cassettes and CDs by Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins, Jean Ritchie and Nic Jones, Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr.

    Joining Adrian and James is another acclaimed Scottish songwriter Alasdair Roberts, who has released three album as Appendix Out for the Drag City label and five Alasdair Roberts albums for labels such as Secretly Canadian, Rough Trade and Drag City, including his 2009 LP Spoils. He has also recorded with label-mates Will Oldham and Jason Molina as the Amalgamated Sons of rest.

    Adrian Crowley is one of Ireland’s most essential young songwriters and recording artists. His fifth album Season of the Sparks is released on Chemikal Underground on November 9th.


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