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Andy Irvine & Paul Brady - 40th Anniversary Tour

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Accompanied by Dónal Lunny & Kevin Burke

1975 – forerunners of Ireland’s dynamic trad-folk movement of the early 70s Planxty has imploded. Paul Brady had joined the band to replace the departing Christy Moore. It was to be an exciting twist for Ireland’s most exciting band – a new powerful voice to bolster the ensemble’s incredible momentum. But sadly Brady never got to record with Planxty. Fatigue and financial difficulties brought the band to a standstill. “It was a great relief,” admits Andy Irvine. “We adjourned to Madigan’s pub in Donnybrook. We drank to the demise of Planxty, looked at each other and said, ‘’So what do we do now? Since Paul and myself had struck up a particular friendship we decided to stick together and become a duo.” Together Andy Irvine and Paul Brady made an eponymously-titled album, released in 1976 on the thriving Mulligan Records label. Today, nearly 40 years later, it stands as one of the most vital documents, not just of Irish music, but international folk music of any era. It is as close as perfection gets, a moment in time, beautifully captured, framed with a timelessness that still bewitches new listeners today. It is basically two of the greatest interpreters of the Irish folk song, side by side, relishing in this magical musical chemistry. They were accompanied by the great fiddler Kevin Burke and Dónal Lunny of Planxty and The Bothy Band, who also produced the album recorded in Wales. “Paul and myself, with Dónal and Kevin Burke, made our only album in Rockfield Studios in August 1976. I think I can speak for both Paul and myself, when I say that we are very proud of this album. It takes a long time to be at a distance from something you recorded and listen to it dispassionately. When I hear that album, I can say it's good without fear of being thought of as conceited. I now hear it objectively, almost as if it was someone else. That was a great time and I look back at those days as being among my best musical experiences. Nobody who was at those Festivals, like say, on Sherkin Island in '76 and '77 will ever forget them.” The album contained some of the songs and tunes which inevitably would have been recorded for the next Planxty album had they not disbanded. It opens with the fiery Plains of Kildare, fuelled on a galloping Bulgarian rachenitsa rhythm. Elsewhere they draw songs from the Sam Henry collection, Brady sings the beautiful Lough Erne Shore, learned from Paddy Tunney (son of the great Brigid Tunney), as well as reels, jigs and a hornpipe. Irvine contributes his self-penned Autumn Gold, a poignant recollection of his times spent in Eastern Europe in the late 60s. Paul Brady’s version of Arthur McBride sits as a sort of centre-piece to the album, a monumental seven-minute folk ballad that can bring a room of any size to a standstill whenever it is performed. Even Andy Irvine, who had sung his own version of the song on Planxty’s seminal debut album had to hold his hands up! “ I always remember the first time I heard it in a Donegal pub. I was blown away as everybody has been since!” 2017 marks the 40th Anniversary of this much loved document. The duo, accompanied by the musicians who helped them make the record back in 1976, will unite once again to bring this timeless magic to the folk connoisseurs of Ireland, young and old.

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Andy irvine & paul brady at barbican centre, london, england.

• Heather on the Moor
• O'Donohughe's
• Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
• Stenson's Reel
• Baneasa's Green Glade/Mominsko Horo
• Cocks are Crowing
• The Dream / Indiana
• Wearin' the Britches / Out the Door and Over the Wall
• Martinmas Time/The Little Stack of Wheat
• Lough Erne Shore
• Bonny Woodhall
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• Autumn Gold
• The Streets of Derry
• Mary and the Soldier
• Plains of Kildare
• Fred Finn's Reel/Sailing Into Walpole's Marsh
• Arthur McBride and the Sargeant
• The Jolly Soldier/The Blarney Pilgrim
• Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
• Lord Thomas
• Wearin' the Britches
• Blacksmith/Black Smithereens

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Irish singer-songwriter and traditional musician. He plays bouzouki, mandola, mandolin, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica and sometimes guitar. Sweeney's Men, Planxty, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Patrick Street, Mozaik, LAPD, Usher's Island and more. ...   more

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Folk singer/songwriter Andy Irvine found his true voice in traditional music when the 1960s folk revolution exploded in Western Europe.

After recording several singles and an album with Irish folk band Sweeney’s Men, Irvine left Dublin for a journey through Eastern Europe. Upon his return to Dublin, Irvine met and played with Donal Lunny for a while, but his world changed when established Christy Moore asked Irvine, Lunny, and uilleann piper Liam O’Flynn to play on the album, and afterward, the four musicians formed the band Planxty.

Planxty quickly became the premier Irish folk band of the early ’70’s after signing a six-record contract and touring extensively throughout Europe. After their third album, Moore left and was briefly replaced by Paul Brady before disbanding.

Brady, a self-taught pianist and guitarist joined Planxty in 1974. Between 1976 and 1978, he and Irvine played as a duo, a musical affiliation that produced the album Andy Irvine and Paul Brady, which even today is considered “one of the greatest albums ever of traditional Irish songs,” (All Music Guide)

The duo performed a reunion concert at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow in February 2008.

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Album Review: Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, ‘Andy Irvine/Paul Brady’

“You’d probably have to experience a lifetime of rain and low-hanging greyness to understand what a dream summer can do to the Irish soul.”

Thus begins a 12,000-word essay from Gareth Murphy, about the making of this album and the fortuitous pairing of Andy Irvine and Paul Brady , which gave rise to one of the most beloved Irish duo recordings in contemporary music history.

Irvine and Brady gathered with bouzoukist Donal Lunny and fiddler Kevin Burke in 1976 to record this eponymous album, which has just recently been reissued by Compass Records. The label pressed the first round of vinyl for this recording in almost a half-century, after remastering it from the original recordings.

The result is a truly celebrational romp of Irish folk music, ripe for discovery by new generations of music fans. From the dancing fiddle of “Plains of Kildaire” to the ruminative folksiness of “Arthur McBride and the Sergeant” and “The Streets of Derry,” to the whistle of “Martinmas Time/The Little Stack of Wheat,” this landmark recording retains the spirit of that dream summer.

Folks who are familiar with this album will appreciate the careful attention to detail in both the remastering and in the booklet that accompanies it. Those new to Irvine and Brady can revel in learning more about the sounds and traditional songs that helped to shape the folk impulses of artists as variant as Bob Dylan and Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Indeed, there are few American folksingers who have not been touched by this recording at some point in their formative years. Revisiting the music that influenced the greats can only deepen one’s understanding of the arc of American folk music. And it’s hard to think of what new to say about an album so influential and timeless, aside from this: Welcome back, old friend.

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Wed Jan 26 2022 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm

Perth Concert Hall and Perth Theatre - Horsecross | Perth, SC

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New Dates Announced………

A Celebration of a Classic Album

• Belfast Waterfront will now take place on November 20th 2022
• Vicar Street Dublin Jan 31st is moved to November 21st 2022
• Vicar Street Dublin Feb 1st is now moved to November 22nd 2022
• The Cork Opera House date is now cancelled and can be refunded

Andy Irvine & Paul Brady have announced that their planned shows in Waterfront Hall, Belfast and Vicar Street, Dublin are being rescheduled to November 2022 . All tickets for the original date will remain valid for rescheduled dates. The Cork Opera House Show has been cancelled, refund from point of purchase.

In May 2017 they decided, due to the albums’ still immense popularity, to do an Irish tour of live shows marking the 40th anniversary of the albums’ release. It was so successful that it was repeated in 2018 taking it to sold out events in Ireland, London and Prague.

The show features songs and tunes from the album and many other musical masterpieces that Andy and Paul have performed throughout both of their illustrious careers and, as on the previous tours, they will be accompanied by  Dónal Lunny  and  Kevin Burke  both of whom were players on the original album recording, Dónal also acted as producer on the original recording.

All tickets for the original dates will remain valid for rescheduled dates.

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