Christy’s back in town at The Hub

Irish music fans are already anticipating the return of Christy Moore who has confirmed that he will perform in Kilkenny for a summer concert.

Christy Moore will play with long-standing musical colleague Declan Sinnott at The Hub at Cillin Hill on July 9 next and tickets for the concert go on sale this Friday.

This will be Christy’s first ever performance at The Hub and the show starts at 8pm sharp. As usual with Christy there will be no support act. 

Christy is a much-loved Irish entertainer and his familiar tunes are known and sung by the masses world-wide.

Named “Ireland’s Greatest Living Musician” in the 2007 RTE People of the Year Awards, Christy’s 40-year career encompasses some of the best movements of the Irish folk scene. Recording his first album ‘Paddy On The Road’ with Dominic Behan in 1969, he went on to record ‘Prosperous’ in 1972 with Andy Irvine, Donal Lunny and Liam O’Flynn in a line-up that become the legendary Planxty.

After a solo period from the mid-seventies to the early eighties, Christy founded another iconic Irish band, Moving Hearts, with Donal Lunny, Declan Sinnott, Keith Donald, Eoghan O’Neill and upcoming uileann piper Davy Spillane.  This was a rich new sound, combining Irish folk music with trad, rock and roll and elements of jazz, which lifted the hearts and spirit of Irish fans through the dark recession of the early eighties.

 The mid-eighties saw Christy going solo again and a string of top-selling studio albums followed, including “The Time Has Come” (1983 ) , “Ordinary Man” (1985 ), “Ride On” (1984 ), “Unfinished Revolution” (1987 ), “The Voyage” (1989 ), “Smoke and Strong Whiskey” (1991 ), “King Puck” (1993 ), “Graffiti Tongue” (1996 ), “Traveller” (1999 ), “This is The Day” (2001 ), “Burning Times” (2005 ) and his most recent release “Listen” (2009 ).  He has also released several compilations and live albums.

 Not only is Christy Moore a household name, but his songs – either those penned by Moore himself or some of Ireland’s top songwriters such as Kilkenny resident, Jimmy McCarthy, Pierce Turner and the late Noel Brazil – are known by fans of all and any type of music.  From the protest songs such as “Go, Move, Shift” and “Biko Drum”, to the light-hearted entertaining numbers “The Knock Song” and “Delirium Tremens”, to the songs of loss and emigration such as “Ride On”, “Nancy Spain”, “Wicklow Hills”, “Metropolitan Avenue” and “City of Chicago”, the range of topics and moods of Christy’s music can capture even the most cynical of hearts.

 Tickets for this very special gig go on sale this Friday, at 9am, and cost €40 and are available from Ticketmaster www.ticketmaster.ie and Rollercoaster Records, Kieran Street, Kilkenny (056 ) 7763669.  Further details are available from The Hub website www.thehubkilkenny.ie

 

 

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