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Post by fatfingerjohn on May 25, 2013 17:57:01 GMT
Just thought I'd share two acoustic performances I've been lucky enough to catch lately.
First was earlier in May at Nottingham Playhouse where Kieran Goss did a concert in the Neville Suite. I wasn't very familiar with his work before although knew he was 'big' in Ireland. He entertained a smallish audience excellently for 2 hours with a lovely Irish patter between songs. His style is very much gentle and melodic with a few songs bordering on the mushy but all skilfully delivered with a lot of feeling. If you haven't heard it, give yourself a treat by looking at the following link for his song 'Reasons to Leave' which echoes his childhood as one of 16 children.
I tried this song back home and was finding it difficult to pick the intro lick, particularly as he was tuned down half a step; I emailed Kieran and he replied within a day giving me the exact sequence, even though he had a gig in Blackburn that night. Good stuff.
Then for something completely different. Went to see Dennis Locorriere (Dr Hook) who was doing a solo acoustic gig at a venue in a village in Notts. What a fabulous evening we had with a mixture of old 'Hook' songs and more recent compositions as a solo artist. His delivery and guitar playing were top drawer and spiced in between by excellent repartee and audience engagement.
These two shows highlighted what a fabulous instrument the guitar is; two different genres, styles, etc, both presented expertly from the same instrument (well, not EXACTLY the same but you know what I mean).
FFJ
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Post by Martin on May 25, 2013 18:06:12 GMT
Sounds like you had two fantastic nights out, John. I haven't seen either of these artists before, but I really enjoyed that Kieran Goss song you posted. I know what you mean about different performances too. Within weeks at the same venue we marvelled at the laid back, mellow mastery of Archie Fisher playing beautiful, elegant folk songs and then had a raucous time with Eamonn Coyne and Kris Drever playing Scottish/Irish tunes and songs at a sometimes furious pace. Great point
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