Featured Artist

Folk the Recession
Friday 18th May - The Venue Theatre, Ratoath, Co. Meath. Tel: 01 6895600
Saturday 19th May - The Source Arts Centre, Thurles. 0504 90204
Eleanor Shanley, Brendan Begley, Frankie Lane, Mick Hanly and Paul Kelly
are currently touring the country with the aptly titled 'Folk the Recession' show, a lively mix of music, story and song from five of Irelands top folk acts.
Click here to see Late Late show performance by Folk the Recession.
With a wonderful selection of songs by composers such as Marty Robbins, Tom Paxton, Jesse Winchester, Tommy Scott, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash, Stephen Foster, Mick Hanly, Chuck Berry, etc. combined with their own arrangements of great traditional tunes is realy is a feast of folk music.
Folk the Recession came about as a result of a group of musicians deciding to just that; to fight the recession with song and story, to pool their diverse musical talents and present something special.
The result is an evening of music and song from five of Ireland’s most renowned folk musicians. Expect the unexpected, from Sliabh Luachra to Nashville, the old and the new, with the sole purpose of pushing the recession and it’s perpetrators to the back of the mind for a few hours. We might be on ‘The Road to Nowhere’ but we well go there singing a song.
The five artists will all be well-known to folk music fans and this chance to see them all on the
same stage presents an opportunity not to be missed.
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