Norah
Rendell and Brian Miller are joined by Adrian O for a special night of
Irish music and stories in Tenterden
Tenterden Folk Club joins
forces with Folk at The Drum, with support from the White Lion, to present
A special night of
Irish music and STORIES with Nora
Rendell & Brian Miller and Adrian O. This very special
event takes place in the Saddlery at The White Lion Hotel in Tenterden High
Street at 8.00 p.m. Saturday 13th
February 2010.
Vancouver singer and flute player Norah Rendell and Minnesotan
guitarist Brian Miller met while living in the southwest of Ireland
and studying Irish traditional music at its source. Their performances
clicked from the start and Ireland’s Munster Express wrote that
their music “brings sunlight into your heart and sets your feet a dancing.”
Since returning to North America, their debut album, “Wait There Pretty
One”, has earned Norah a nomination for Canadian Traditional Singer of the Year
and they are fast becoming known as two of the best young interpreters of
traditional music this side of the Atlantic.
Norah has performed at
venues and festivals around the globe, including England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, and North America as lead vocalist with
Limerick band, The Outside Track.
Fred Silver of the Stornoway Gazette wrote, “Her singing left me goose-pimpled
all over – a sure sign of a gutsy, emotional delivery laced with meaning and
pathos”. In 2005, Norah was awarded a grant from the Canada Council for
Performing Arts to study traditional flute and singing at the Irish World
Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick.
Since returning to North America, Norah has
been featured on CBC’s Canada Live, North by Northwest and BBC Radio Nan
Gaidheal.
Brian is also an
accomplished singer and flute player and began playing Irish music at high
school in Bemidji,
Minnesota. He has been a
highly visible character in the Twin Cities Irish music scene since 1998, while
often sneaking away to his other adopted home of Cork, Ireland. As a
member of a number of far-flung groups and duos including Bua, The Tommie
Cunniffe Trio, The Doon Ceili Band and 5 Mile Chase, Brian has performed
throughout the US, Canada and Ireland. In Ireland
he has been featured on TG4, RTE television and RTE radio. The Irish Times
called his guitar accompaniment “superb”. Irish music critic Earle
Hitchner wrote that Brian’s guitar backing “flexes not just muscle but a fully
complementary style.”
Nora and Brian are joined
by Tenterden Folk Festival regular Adrian
O. Adrian is a popular Irish
singer and renowned storyteller and is in great demand in folk clubs in festival
in England and at home in
Ireland and also frequently
visits New
Zealand.
Tickets for this unique
event are £7.00 on the door or £6.00 in advance from TFF or FATD.
Further information
from
E: david_at_plesbit_dot_net or info_at_tenterdenfolkfestival_dot_org_dot_uk
T: David 01797
320518
Tickets also available
online at www.wegottickets.com/event/66073
Coming
soon:
Friday
19th March 2010:
Tenterden Folk Club, with
support from the White Lion, presents Tom Lewis plus
support
The White Lion Saddlery,
High Street, Tenterden at 8.00 p.m.
Tickets £7.00 on the door
or £6.00 in advance from Tenterden Folk Festival
E: info_at_tenterdenfolkfestival_dot_org_dot_uk
T: 01233 626805
www.tomlewis.net
www.marstonstaverns.co.uk/Home/hotels/hotel-tenterden/white-lion
Tickets also available
online www.wegottickets.com/event/66074
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www.folkspots.co.uk
Tenterden Folk
Festival
info_at_tenterdenfolkfestival_dot_org_dot_uk
www.tenterdenfolkfestival
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