The hit show, Nashville have taken to the skies and for a final time they’ll showcase their talent and music to us in the UK and Ireland as they embark on the final spin off tour. Esten,
Bowen, Carmack, Jackson, and Palladio will host eight shows in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland for their Farewell UK Tour. The Belfast gig is booked into the SSE arena for Tuesday 24th April.
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For many years there has been a close link between our very own Belfast City and the iconic music city of Nashville. The region’s connection with Tennessee dates from the Scots-Irish settlement of the area in the eighteenth century to the diverse relationships and cultural ties that link Belfast and Nashville today. Belfast has been an official sister city of Nashville, since 1995 in a partnership focusing on social projects, education, and musical and cultural exchange.
Millennum Forum, DERRY: June 25th
Waterfront, BELFAST: June 26th
Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am
Country music icon Kris Kristofferson makes a hugely welcome return for four solo acoustic shows this June, including two in Northern Ireland.
On the 24th of March Nathan Carter will return to the SSE Arena in Belfast, this time he’s bringing along a few special surprises. Not only will his wee brother on stage with him, but legendary bluegrass group Hayseed Dixie’ will also be performing at the event. Hayseed Dixie, who played the Belfast Empire last night are an American band which began in 2001 with the release of their first album, A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC. The band performs a mixture of cover versions of hard rock songs and original compositions in a style that is a unique fusion of bluegrass and rock music and they are acknowledged as the creators of the musical genre “Rockgrass”. The band’s name is a linguistic play on the name of the band AC/DC.
The Mavericks is a name you might of not heard since their single ‘Dance The Night Away’ was in the UK charts in 1998, spending a respectful 18 weeks in the chart and peaking at No. 4. However, to anyone who has followed them closely, you’ll know they’ve had a very vibrant history featuring many ups and downs, twists and turns and next week, their path leads them to Belfast, to the Limelight. As they prepare to take to the stage on Tuesday 5th February, we take a look back and perhaps take a moment to give the band the recognition they deserve.
Following the success around her recent solo single ‘Why I Need You’ which has been on various country radio playlists across the UK and had nearly 100k video views to date, London-based Irish singer/songwriter Megan O’Neill has today released another track from her forthcoming album, the upbeat country-leaning song ‘Ghost of You’. Recorded in Nashville earlier this year, Megan describes the song as “one of those ones that just kind of flowed out – it was effortless to write in some ways but then of course, when editing, you can spend hours changing one lyric here and another one there! It’s about loved ones lost but their memories live on as part of you. One part of you wishes you could let them go – let those memories go – and yet another part of you is thankful that you still have them with you in some spiritual way.”
Kerry Fearon is a name that’s currently stuck right in the middle of Irish Country. She’s a busy wee woman with many fingers in pies and one pie that is simmering along nicely is that of her solo career. Just this week she released her second single, ‘Luxury Liner’ to radio. The song, written by Gram Parsons is the song that was the title track from the EmmyLou Harris album. Released in 1976. Kerry’s version has been brought up to the modern day and was produced and arranged at No Sweat Studios Coleraine by Clive Culbertson.
Country to our Country
They say a rolling stone gathers no moss and this has most definitely been the case of the Country to Country Festival. Since its first event in London 2013, the festival has snowballed into what we know it as today.
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Rooted in the southern storytelling of Country music with the modern punch of rock & roll, ‘Hallelujah Nights’ serves as LANCO’s coming-of-age debut album, confirmed for release worldwide on 19th January 2018, including CD & digital formats in the UK, and is available to pre-order now. Equal parts nostalgic and forward-thinking, lead singer Brandon Lancaster wrote all eleven songs and found success breathing new life into universal themes.
Following the release of her chart topping album ‘Come Back Fighting’, Philippa Hanna will be heading out on the road this April for her most exciting run of headline shows to date. Her country-tinged 6th release hit Number 1 on the iTunes UK Country Chart on the day of release and topped the Official Christian & Gospel chart in December 2017.
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On This Day
- On this day December 28, 1965Johnny Cash pleaded guilty to drug possession in El Paso, Texas, where he was arrested in October with over 1,000 pills. A related newspaper photo stated the Ku Klux Klan was to boycott Cash concerts under the misguided premise that Cash's wife was black.
