Ryan Sheridan is a solo singer and guitarist from County Monaghan. As a teenager, he made his tentative first steps onstage in the pubs and clubs of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. An intimidating environment where he was old enough to play but not to drink, the competitive nature of the scene and the city meant he had to get good quick or go home.
His next destination was Glasgow, arriving there in 2004. He formed a three piece rock band called Shiversaint and started to work the Scottish circuit with mixed results. The trio survived a crossing of the Irish Sea and a relocation to Dublin in 2006, but by the following year Ryan felt the band had run its course and took a two year hiatus from music to run a bar in his home town.
However, a sense of unfinished business and an urge to play in public again saw Ryan back down in Dublin in 2009. He hooked up with Polish percussionist Artur Graczyk, an old friend from the dying embers of Shiversaint. Embracing the freedom of movement created by acoustic guitar and cajon (or crate to our non Spanish readers ) the pair hit the streets of Dublin to eke out a living.
An inventive and crafty guitarist with a powerful and expressive voice, Ryan’s dynamic interplay with Artur’s “four limbs good” rhythmic attack must be seen to be believed. As a songwriter, he has crammed a lot of living into his days, and this is reflected in his expressive and accessible approach to words and music.
While entertaining the human traffic of Temple Bar, Ryan and Artur were spotted by his current management team. This led to a showcase at The Academy jam-packed with the great and the good of the Dublin media mafia, and a subsequent record deal with leading Irish independent label Rubyworks.
Ryan now comes to The Stables, Mullingar tonight, Friday March 18 with special guests Peter Doran and Ronan Leonard. Doors open at 9.30pm and tickets are priced at €12 and are available from E2 Mullingar, The Yukon Bar, and any Xtra Vision store nationwide or online from www.tickets.ie or www.ticketgroup.ie
For more information log on to www.ryansheridanmusic.com
