Daoiri Farrell
Wed 17 Apr
|Tyneside Irish Centre
Two times BBC Folk Award winner Daoirí Farrell’s third album ‘A Lifetime Of Happiness’ released 15th February 2019
Time & Location
17 Apr 2019, 19:00 – 22:30
Tyneside Irish Centre, 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4SG, UK
Guests
About the event
It’s been a whirlwind for Daoirí (‘Derry’) Farrell over the last three years. In January 2016 he launched his solo career with a low-key show at Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow. In January 2019 he will return to the festival, this time to lead an all-star line-up in one of the festival’s biggest venues.
So how the meteoric rise? Simply a word-of-mouth excitement about what Dónal Lunny has described as, ‘one of the most important traditional singers to emerge out of Ireland in the last decade.’ A run of small dates across the UK in May 2016 was preceded by a live session on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe and suddenly everyone was talking about Daoirí. A few festival performances in summer 2016 was followed by a longer UK tour that autumn and the release of a new album ‘True Born Irishman’, nine years…