From: Sarah Allen [sarah_at_flook_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 27 April 2010 11:19
Subject: FLOOK NEWS : Brian Finnegan solo CD and tour dates
FLOOK NEWS 

Hope this email finds you well. We are thrilled to let you know that Brian's amazing new album, 'The Ravishing Genius Of Bones' is now finally complete and about to go on sale!
Featuring a wonderful line up of musicians from around the world, including Justin Adams, Crooked Still, The St Petersburg Symphony strings, and the boys from Flook and KAN, Brian brings to life nine immensely crafted new tracks. To order your copy of 'The Ravishing Genius Of Bones', please visit Brian's Myspace page where it will be on sale from May 1st:
http://www.myspace.com/briantfinnegan

You can catch Brian, playing with 
Ed and John Joe in Ireland at the end of this month (tour dates below) as they do a short tour to launch the new album. 

Brian's brand new quartet KAN will also be performing some of their very first dates next month. KAN features Brian and the very wonderful Aidan O'Rourke from Lau, alongside ace young guitarist Ian Stephenson and master Manchester drummer Jim Goodwin "Terrifically tight... intensely lyrical... heavyweight rhythmic attack" The Scotsman
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/KAN/286727655438?ref 

If you are a Facebook user, you might like to join our Flook page on Facebook  at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Flook/322355832107?ref=mf

That's it for now, keep in touch

Sarah, Brian, Ed and John Joe



DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Thursday April 29th
IRELAND
Brian Finnegan / Ed Boyd / John Joe Kelly
Carrick On Shannon
The Dock
 www.thedock.ie

Friday April 30th
IRELAND
Brian Finnegan / Ed Boyd / John Joe Kelly
Naul
Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre, 
www.seamusenniscentre.com

Saturday May 1st
IRELAND 
Brian Finnegan / Ed Boyd / John Joe Kelly
Monaghan
Feile Oriel Festival, 
www.feileoriel.com

Saturday May 22nd
ENGLAND
KAN featuring Brian Finnegan and Aidan O'Rourke
The Sage Gateshead

Monday May 24th
ENGLAND
KAN featuring Brian Finnegan and Aidan O'Rourke
Colchester Folk Club


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MAIL ORDER

 

Brian Finnegan's The Ravishing Genius of Bones (CD) 2010
BUY (FROM MAY 1st 2011): http://www.myspace.com/briantfinnegan


Haven (CD) 2005
In the pantheon of Irish/English folk groups they don’t come much more revered than Flook.    
Irish Post, November 2005

 

Haven swings with a blazing intensity that captures their kinetic live performances.    
The Observer, November 2005

 

The flute/guitar/bodhran combo keep racking up the superlatives. 
Breathtaking tunes with the unmistakable Flook feelgood signature.   
BBC, November 2005

 

OR IF YOU ARE BASED IN USA OR CANADA: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E42MOO

 

 

Rubai (CD) (http://www.flook.co.uk/rubai.html)  2002
Rubai was nominated as Best Album in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2003

 

an extraordinarily good record
fRoots

 

head and shoulders above the rest... Magnificent.
The Irish Times

 

one of the essential albums of 2002
Songlines

 

OR IF YOU ARE BASED IN USA OR CANADA:   http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00008V5TW

 

 

Flatfish (CD)  1999
Flatfish is, quite simply, one of the most stunning contemporary
 Celtic albums you'll hear this or any other year.
Songlines

 

No frills, no studio gloss, just simple unadorned pleasure from start
 to finish  
The Rough Guide to Irish Music

 

 a cornucopia of sublime musicianship. Rating: * * * * *
The Scotsman

 

 

 


 

All Flook albums are also available from iTunes UK

 



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