September Soirée, Island Theatre
- Price: €15
- Date: Fri, Sep 24, 2021
- Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
- Venue: Islang theatre
- Location: Ballinamore. Co. Leitrim
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Ailie Blunnie – Folkatronica
Ailie is a musician and songwriter from Carrick-on-Shannon. Her music has been quoted as sounding “like Leitrim fiddle legend Ben Lennon met up with Patti Smith, had a drink in Carrick on Shannon and worked out how to fuse trad, folk, rock then sprinkle some tasteful electronica over it all. Uniquely edgy and familiar at same time” (Fergus O’Keefe, WRFG 89.3FM Atlanta)
She released her début album, ‘West to the Evening Sun’, in 2017 – a collection of 10 songs documenting healing, hope, love and loss, as well as a brief mischievous brush with a bicycle:
“‘West to the Evening Sun’ is not just music – it’s poetry too. Listening to these songs is like sitting alone in an archive, reading a collection of letters shared between the closest of friends. There is tragedy, confession, hope, love. Moreover, there is narrative as well as harmonic integrity.” (Colleen Taylor, NY Irish Echo)
Ailie will be joined on the night by long-time musical collaborators, Róisín Blunnie and Aideen Rickard, and this will be their first live gig together since pre-pandemic times!
Support by The Beauty Club
The Beauty Club is a four-piece rock, blues and R&B band based in Ballinamore in County Leitrim in the Northwest of Ireland. In 2018 they rose from the ashes of two local covers bands, The Doppelzimmers and The Psychonics, with the intention of writing a couple of songs to add to their repertoire of blues and rock covers. Their song writing output quickly progressed to the point where their own songs now outnumber the covers as they’ve realised that writing and performing original music is serious fun.
The individual band members’ varied musical tastes have resulted in an interesting mix of musical styles and influences, from surf rock to Americana to ‘wave-your-lighter-in-the-air’ ballads, yet all of their songs have the unique Beauty Club rock vibe.
In early 2019 they started to play gigs and they’re now developing into a rocking live band, focusing very much on writing and recording their own tracks. 16 year old Colum Gartland is currently standing in for Brent on drums.
The band members are: Lee Gartland (Rhythm Guitar & Lead Vocals), Sven Paetz (Lead Guitar), Pauric Sweeney (Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals), Colum Gartland (Drums & Vocals).
Tickets: €15 each. Min Order #2 Tickets. Max #6 Tickets.