TIPPERARY EVENTS: Two great acts to play at Roscrea’s Black Mills Sessions

Next up on the Black Mills Sessions, the society will host Jack Keeshan and Shea Oran McGurnaghan.

Jack and Shea will share the stage with St Cronan’s High Cross, a fascinating relic that once sat in a graveyard across the road from the Black Mills.

The Black Mills dates from the first half of the 18th century and is located near the 11th-century round tower and 12th-century Romanesque church.

The acoustic properties of the mill make an ideal venue to host music performances.

A proud Roscrea native, Jack Keeshan is not just some other young fellow with a guitar strung round his shoulder.

His storytelling style of passionate music is fired by a deep need to share an authentic message of self-worth and love for your fellow human being.

This young man has an amazing gift to communicate through song and spoken word. “For someone so young, Jack Keeshan’s writing prowess is beyond his years”- Roddie Cleere (KCLR/Irish Music Show ).

“Jack's songs touch on the metaphysical and his early music has the echoes of titans running through it.

It has Leonard Cohen’s fingerprints, the scent of the best of Bob Dylan and at its core is an inimitable gentleness and ease that makes it instantly endearing” – Darren Keegan (Midlands Tribune).

Shea Oran McGurnaghan is a singer-songwriter hailing from Belfast.