MANCHESTER: Hey! Manchester @ Gullivers

Wednesday 16th October, 2024

7:30pm

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Mikey Kenney is an original. A passionate and well-respected advocate for traditional music – a brilliant Liverpool-style fiddler drawing primarily on his native North West English and Irish heritage – but grounded in a present-day, urban reality.

He is a musician with wide-open horizons and insatiable curiosity for new possibilities. As evidenced on his latest album, The Reverie Road (Penny Fiddle Records), Kenney’s songwriting is both adventurous and earth-bound, with his high lonesome voice exploring sun-drenched Italian vistas, dream worlds and sounds of the city.

With a reputation for both making quality music and producing wondrous flourishes of creativity, Kenney is also a multi-talented and in-demand collaborator, including, formerly, with Band Of Burns, and now, with his electric trio World Turned Upside Down, as well as playing with BBC 6 Music favourite Alabaster DePlume and Italian singer-songwriter Vinicio Capossela. Mikey is also Musical Director of the Lancashire Youth Folk Ensemble.

‘This is magical, medicinal music that defies labels and borders’ – Liverpool Echo

‘Mikey Kenney is an artist for whom music is a calling, not a career choice… a singular and inspiring talent… unfettered by expectations of geography or genre, and a wanderer of worlds both seen and invisible, Kenney is an authentic free spirit’ – fRoots

‘Superbly charismatic fiddle playing… once heard, never forgotten singing’ – FRUK

Local support comes from Séamus Óg. Séamus Óg is an Irish musician hailing from Carrickfergus, Ireland. Drawing inspiration from an upbringing of traditional Irish music, storytelling, island life. Bursting onto the Manchester folk scene with his debut album, Best Masala Tea, he has since shared the stage with renowned artists like Brìghde Chaimbeul, Chris Brain and Ríoghnach Connolly & Honeyfeet.

His second album, Terry’s Síbín, featured on BBC 6 Music (Tom Robinson), Celtic FM and Radio Fáilte, set the stage for his highly anticipated third release, Haul The Pots, coming out on 25 March. His music, is intertwined in rich harmonies, and stories full of heart, that will have you swept into a dream state and lingering on adventures taken, and mapping those to come.

109 Oldham Street
Manchester
M4 1LW

www.heymanchester.com