The Three Tennessee Tenors will perform at the Abymill in Fethard
Clonmel World Music is delighted to present two very special nights of Country and Americana music in Clonmel and Fethard on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 September.
“I got the opportunity to host these two bands from the USA, as part of two short Irish tours, and I jumped at the chance,” said Gerry Lawless of Clonmel World Music.
“It’s rare to get two such quality acts to play in town , especially on consecutive nights! Thursday night will showcase the best of Country music from Nashville Tennessee, in Fethard, and Friday night will see the best of Americana from Austin Texas, in Clonmel”
THREE TENNESSEE TENORS
Thursday September 12 will see a very special country trio, from Tennessee USA play in the Abymill Theatre Fethard.
The Three Tennessee Tenors are a trio of lifelong friends who perform and write together in various ensembles and gatherings in the Nashville, Tennessee area. The group is headed by country music superstar and CMA Hall of Fame Member Jimmy Fortune, with Mike Armistead (Tennessee Mafia Jug Band) and Mike Rogers (Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder).
Presenting a night of Americana and country classics and easy listening favourites, the distinguished musical trio will be in Ireland for a limited 5-gig nationwide tour.
Jimmy Fortune needs no introduction having toured, sang and performed with the legendary Statler Brothers for 21 years. Jimmy wrote the group’s second No. 1 hit, “Elizabeth,” on their 1983 album Today, and followed that with two more No. 1 hits – “My Only Love” (from 1984’s Atlanta Blue) and “Too Much On My Heart” (from 1985’s Pardners in Rhyme).
Mike Armistead grew up in Goodlettsville Tennessee, a small town north of Nashville. He still lives in the same community he grew up in where country music legends lived such as Stringbean, Grandpa Jone, Bill Carlisle, Lonzo and Oscar, Bill Monroe, Jack Greene, just to name a few. Early in his career he played guitar for Leroy Troy and was one of Leroy’s Tennessee Slickers. For several years he performed with Bashful Brother Oswald of the Smoky Mountain Boys.
Mike Rogers has had music instilled in him from the start. His father Tom was a South Carolina State Fiddle Champion and by the age of 5, he was learning guitar and the drums. By the end of high school, Rogers was backing a former Liberty Records artist on drums and considering the move to Nashville. In 2002, Rogers made the move to Nashville where he would play drums and acoustic guitar for the likes of Country artists Kevin Denney and Craig Morgan. Currently Rogers is singing and playing acoustic guitar for Bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs as a member of his band Kentucky Thunder.
CARSON MCHONE
Friday September 13 will feature Carson McHone, a singer/songwriter from Austin Texas, in Moynihans Clonmel. She has appeared in Ireland at the Kilkenny Roots Festival. McHone’s 2018 internationally released Carousel (LOOSE MUSIC/NINE MILE RECORDS), produced by Mike McCarthy, was a reimagining of songs from her formative years coming of age playing in dive bars.
It established her as a shrewd artist who raises unconventional questions with language equally at home in a poem or a short story.
When McHone first began playing happy hour shows and landing residencies in Austin’s iconic music venues, she was barely 16 years old. In the musical sense, McHome grew up in bars, a theme she often explores in her music. “I was a kid when I landed those residencies,” McHone writes in her bio of her time at venues such as the White Horse and Hole in the Wall. “I wasn’t even old enough to be in those bars, and they became a home to me. It’s a dark thing when a bar becomes your home.
Don’t put McHone in any one specific box, because she’s not interested in being a typical, traditional country artist. “There was a time when I wanted to champion traditional country. Mostly because I wasn’t hearing it in what was being called ‘country,” she says. “I think a lot of roots-influenced artists feel the need to defend tradition in this way. Today, though, I want to do more with the form, push myself past where I understand it to be.” To that end, McHone is deftly weaving jazz, blues, folk and torch songs into her country approach
She is joined on this short Irish tour by Daniel Romano from Ontario Canada.
TICKETS
Doors for both shows will open at 7pm, and the shows will start at 8pm prompt.
Tickets For both shows are available through Clonmel World Music or from Gerry Lawless on 086 3389619.
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