BRIAN KENNEDY
Supported by CILLA
TUE 09 MAR @ 7:30PM
- Price
- $47.70 OVER 18'S ONLY
- Bookings
- (02) 9550 3666
- Mode
- Theatre Mode - General Admission Seating
- Tickets
- On sale now @ FACTORY THEATRE
- Buy tickets online
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DOORS: 7:30PM
CILLA: 8:00PM
BRIAN KENNEDY: 9:00PM
Brian Kennedy, one of Ireland’s most loved and successful ambassadors of music, is returning to Australian shores for a national tour in March 2010, including highly anticipated appearances at the 2010 Port Fairy Folk Festival.
Brian’s latest concerts come on the back of his 2008 album, Interpretations, and will no doubt follow the now established local tradition with Australian audiences embracing Brian’s previous shows over two highly successful tours.
In August 2009, Brian was honoured at the annual Ireland’s Music Awards ceremony – the only national Irish Traditional, Folk and Celtic music awards ceremony in Ireland – taking out the top prize for Best Male Vocalist.
Brian Kennedy’s last tour to Australia saw the Adelaide Street Press exclaim, “Brian Kennedy possesses such a soulful, angelic voice that he can reduce grown people to tears.”
Meanwhile, John Shand of the Sydney Morning Herald said about Brian’s version of the traditional Irish classic, ‘Carrickfergus’, “It is hard to imagine a better voice to sing this glorious lament than Kennedy’s, keening like uilleann pipes over gentle finger picking. It is the ethereal upper register that so sets this voice apart, but the truly remarkable aspect of it is how seamlessly he moves between his natural tenor and his falsetto.”
The latest Brian Kennedy album, Interpretations is his 10th album, and – unusually for such a prolific songwriter – includes versions of 13 of the most popular chart-toppers of the past 30-odd years. From ‘Gaye’ to ‘Galileo’, ‘Brown-Eyed Girl’ to ‘You Are So Beautiful’, to name a few, Brian makes these songs his own with some surprising and unique results.
Of the new album, Irish Music Magazine said, “Interpretations is a celebration of quality and talent from one of Ireland’s most prolific singers… a true artist.”
Brian Kennedy was first spotted by Belfast-born, international legend, Van Morrison, and he joined Van’s renowned Blues and Soul World Tour for a period of six years, performing with some of the legends of the music industry – Joni Mitchell, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, and many others.
Brian is critically acclaimed as a singer/songwriter, radio/television presenter, and more recently as an author of considerable worth, having produced a series of short stories and two novels (with a third on the way) - not surprisingly, for a lyricist of his calibre.
