Bruce Molsky at Liverpool Irish Centre

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Choicey Club are very excited to be bringing the legendary American fiddler Bruce Molsky to Liverpool Irish Centre. We're also exceptionally lucky to have special guest Scottish singer-songwriter Adam Beattie joining us for the evening... and that's not all either... we plan to use this event to celebrate the official launch of Choicey Club by having a late night Céilí dance after the concert with a band featuring Choicey Club hosts Mikey Kenney and Ellen McGovern alongside some top local traditional musicians.

BE SURE TO BOOK THE FOLLOWING DAY OFF WORK!

BRUCE MOLSKY
He’s a self-described “street kid” from the Bronx who bailed on college and big city life for a cold-water cabin in Virginia in the 1970s. His mission? To soak up the passion that was dramatically upending his parent’s life plan for him  – authentic Appalachian mountain music – at the feet of its legendary pioneers, old masters who are now long gone.

Today, Bruce Molsky is one of the most revered “multi-hyphenated career” ambassadors for America’s old-time mountain music. For decades, he’s been a globetrotting performer, ethnomusicologist and educator, a recording artist with an expansive discography including seven solo albums, well over a dozen collaborations and two Grammy-nominations. He’s
also the classic “musician’s musician” – a man who’s received high praise from diverse fans and collaborators like Linda Ronstadt, Mark Knopfler, Celtic giants Donal Lunny and Andy
Irvine, jazzer Bill Frisell and dobro master Jerry Douglas, a true country gentleman by way of the Big Apple aptly dubbed “the Rembrandt of Appalachian fiddlers” by virtuoso violinist
and sometimes bandmate Darol Anger.

Molsky digs deep to transport audiences to another time and place, with his authentic feel for and the unearthing of almost-forgotten rarities from the Southern Appalachian songbook. Molsky seduces audiences with a combination of rhythmic and melodic virtuosity and relaxed conversational wit – a uniquely humanistic, downhome approach that can make Carnegie Hall feel like a front porch or intimate jam session.

In addition to his many live performances as a solo and with Molsky’s Mountain Drifters, Bruce will be kept away from his home in Beacon, New York, by his work as a Visiting
Scholar at the old American Roots Music Program at the Boston’s Berklee College of Music, and through fiddling workshops and summer music camps he conducts for devotees here and abroad.
 
"Bruce Molsky is one of those great players who 'gets it': has all the links to the past but is happy not to be chained to it" - Mark Knopfler

"One of the world's premier Appalachian-style fiddlers" — Bloomberg News

"It is no exaggeration to say that Bruce Molsky is one of the greatest American fiddlers
of all time. His playing is mesmerizing and transporting, and best experienced live" – WBUR (Boston NPR)


Photo by Irene Young