Nuala Kennedy Band's Record Release Celebration- Live at Eddie's Attic!

Doors open at 6:30pm. Tickets will be $18 at the door.

Currently working on an album entitled ˜Noble Stranger", her third solo release on Nashville's Compass Records Label, NUALA KENNEDY is an Irish singer and flute player with hauntingly beautiful vocals, adventurous instrumentation, and an imaginative mix of influences. Nuala Kennedy's singing and flute playing springs from the traditional music of Ireland and Scotland, and from the fathomless realms of her own imagination. A consummate performer with a buoyant personality, her music has been described as unique, evocative, and soul-satisfying. By the age of twelve she graduated to wooden flute and became a member of a local ceilidh band 'Ceoltoiri Oga Oghrialla'. The band, comprising several now highly respected traditional musicians, won the all Ireland Gradam award for the under twenty-one age group when Nuala was just thirteen.

At the age of eighteen, Nuala moved to Scotland to study at Edinburgh College Of Art. She was immediately captivated by the vital traditional music session scene, and there made many friends, including fellow Irish expatriate Cathal McConnell, whose music has had a huge influence on her, and who has become something of a mentor to her over the years. It was in Edinburgh that Nualas passion for traditional music was further strengthened and where she honed her instrumental skills. The result was a comprehensive repertoire of Scottish tunes, as well as Irish, and led to the formation of her first real band, the trio Fine Friday, alongside guitarist Kris Drever and fiddler Anna-Wendy Stevenson. The trio toured widely in Europe, Canada and Australia, before disbanding in 2006, and released two critically acclaimed albums; ˜Gone Dancing and ˜Mowing the Machair. "A startingly varied and imaginative album of instrumental music and song. Nuala Kennedy's masterly skill on wooden flute and whistle reflects her Irish traditional roots. Scotland on Sunday. In 2007 Nuala decided that her vision and interpretation of traditional music deserved her own band and she released a solo CD The New Shoes.

'The New Shoes' was voted traditional album of the week by The Irish Times, featured in BBC Scotland's top albums of 2008 and traditional highlight of the year by Hotpress Music Magazine. That began an intense cycle of touring, and Nuala began taking her music abroad to audiences all over Europe and the USA. It also stimulated her creative powers and a lot of her own compositional work began at this point. At this time she was invited to write a piece for Glasgow's Celtic Connections International festival, a piece she will revisit in January 2012. She put together an hour long show featuring nine players from around the world. This experience whetted her appetite for both composition and collaboration, and led to her participation in Burnsong 2007 and ArtOmi in New York, both important artistic residencies where her talents for both organization and creativity were brought to the fore. Several of the musicians with whom she worked at this stage are featured on her sophomore solo album 'Tune In' inspired by a vintage radio dial and released in 2010.

Amongst others she has performed and recorded with American hipster and indie-poet Will Oldham, an album which received 5 stars from MOJO magazine, and cutting-edge Canadian composer Oliver Schroer, with whom she recorded ˜Enthralled a duo album of entirely original compositions to be released in January 2012 on Borealis Records. She occasionally performs with ECMA award winners Troy MacGillivray, Kimberley Fraser and Andrea Beaton. Nuala is also part of the traditional Irish group OIRIALLA: performing the music and song of her native South-East Ulster, which features Irish traditional music legends Gerry ˜fiddle OConnor, accordionist Martin Quinn and the acclaimed Breton guitarist Gilles le Bigot.

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