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Celtic folk sounds at The Crane

Written by Staff Reporter

Wednesday, 09 July 2008

Sophisticated Celtic jazz-folk pioneers Carmina will play The Crane Bar on Sea Road on Thursday 24 July at 9pm.

Carmina have just released their second album, ‘My Crescent City' in collaboration with Irish music legend Dónal Lunny, who produced the album. It features the award-winning song ‘Blessed are the Broken’ (Tipperary International Song of Peace 2007), as well as six other original numbers, a spine-tingling reworking of traditional ballad ‘Lord Franklin’, a cover of Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Stretched on your Grave’ and a Christmas number ‘December Song’ (Tomkins/Duffy), playlisted on stations in the UK and Ireland in December 2007.

The line-up for the Irish tour boasts some big names on the British jazz and folk scene as well as a young star of Irish traditional music.

Pippa Marland and masterful arranger and songwriter Rob King (acoustic guitar, bodhrán, mandola), compose the songs around which the band weaves their magic. The line-up includes Geoff Castle (Brendan Power, Nucleus, Paz) – keyboards and backing vocals; Diarmaid Moynihan (Calico, Craobh Rua) - uilleann pipes and whistles and Julian Nicholas (Loose Tubes, Dudu Pukwana) – tenor and soprano saxophones, whistles. The band’s music has been described by The Irish Times as ‘folk jazz and Celtic fusion that mesmerizes and bewitches’ and ‘whispers of Moving Hearts at their spacious, innovative best’.

Tickets, €15, are available from The Crane Bar on Sea Road.

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