€20.00

Andy Irvine
Sirius Arts Centre
Friday 16 June
8pm (doors 7.45) 

Tickets €20, available online www.siriusartscentre.ie or through the office info@siriusartscentre.ie / 021 4813790

Iconic traditional Irish musician Andy Irvine has travelled the world as a solo artist and as a member of legendary Irish groups such as Planxty and Patrick Street and more recently Mozaik.

With his impressive repertoire of Irish traditional songs and dexterous Balkan dance tunes, he creates an exciting new fusion of Irish and World Music not to be missed. 

Having travelled the world with bands such as Sweeney’s Men, Patrick Street, Planxty, and more recently Mozaik, Andy continues to pursue new combinations and styles of music. He has broadened his musical horizons over the course of his forty-year career to encompass the musical styles of countries he visits, such as the Balkan folk style of playing. 

Between the achievements of his solo, group work and collaborations, he is a highly revered troubadour of the Irish music world.  Andy Irvine never fails to deliver a pulsating, heartfelt performance. 

His forte, his genius is playing his mandolin, mandola and bouzouki.  I have never heard such clarity of sound, such perfect and precise rhythmic variations or such brilliant melodic figures from this family of instruments.                          San Francisco Examiner                                                                                                                                                                   

Irvine turned in a dazzling display of one-man-bandsmanship.            The Scotsman 

Andy Irvine’s solo stage show is a musical travelogue through time and space.  His right hand dexterity on bouzouki was nothing short of amazing.                 Frets Magazine 

The Noam Chomsky of Irish Balladry chisels out a new motherlode of sung literature….A bloody masterpiece.                                                                                    Irish Times 

Andy Irvine is Ireland’s Woody Guthrie, with a philosopher’s ear and a prophet’s passionate voice.  He is also a stunning singer and instrumentalist who weaves melody and texture, harmony and rhythm, into a rich tapestry of present and past.        Si Kahn                                                                                                                                                             

I love that record.  I absolutely love that record.  [Andy Irvine/Paul Brady, Mulligan Album, 1976]                                                                                                                   Paul Brady