GWEN OREL
The only NY journalist who writes for both Irish Music Magazine and The Forward

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Sharon Shannon is at City Winery tonight!

We've got a few pairs of tickets to give away-- and we predict they'll be gone within half an hour!  Sharon, the accordion champion, is back with a new CD which we hope to be reviewing soon.

Don't know about Sharon?
Here's what's up on the City Winery site. And a word about City Winery: it is one of my favorite places in the city, full stop. Good food, great atmosphere, and of course, great wine..

Sharon Shannon 
Ireland has achieved legendary status throughout the world and has made the much-maligned accordion 'cool' in her home country. Renowned for her collaborations, not just in Irish traditional music, but through all musical genres, Hip-Hop, Cajun, Country, Classical and Rap.

Sharon has recorded and toured with a who's who of the Irish and Global Music Industry, including Bono, Adam Clayton, Sinead O’Connor, Jackson Browne, John Prine ,Steve Earle, The RTE Concert Orchestra, The Chieftains, The Waterboys, Willie Nelson, Nigel Kennedy, Alison Krauss and Shane MacGowan - a list that is testament to Sharon's versatility as well as talent.

She has entertained US Presidents Clinton  at the White House and  Obama in Dublin and Irish Presidents Robinson and MacAleese on presidential visits to Poland and Australia respectivelly. More recently  she played for The Sultan of Brunei , at the Basement in Sydney.

She has worked with Hollywood film directors Jim Sheridan in a production of The Playboy of the Western World and played a cameo role in Neil Jordans film Ondine alongside Colin Farrell.

The genre-defying star has had multi-platinum album sales and has had several number one albums, singles and DVDs in her home country. Her album Galway Girl went 4 times platinum in Ireland with the title track winning her the Meteor award two years running for most downloaded song.

She also celebrates being the youngest ever recipient of the Meteor Lifetime Achievement Award. Her music has been featured in several Hollywood movies including PS I love you, and the award-winning Bulmers TV commercial campaign.

A prolific composer, Sharon continues to defy genres and has recently released an album of original music recorded with the RTE Concert Orchestra called Flying Circus.

She has produced a new album for the High Kings   released worldwide by Sony in September 2013 and is currently co-writing songs with many collaborators.

She recently performed with reggae legend Dawn Penn and Lee Thomspon from Madness on the single’ Bangarang’

Currently working on a book on her life, Sharon is a passionate  animal lover and does a lot of voluntary work and fundraising for various animal rescues and supports many other charities.

Sharon regularly performs on tour  and at festivals in Ireland, UK, France, Belgium, Holland,Spain,Japan, Australia, New Zealand.

And there's loads more on his website, sharonshannon.com.

   Sorry we haven't been getting things up in a timely manner, especially that 1st Irish posts will go up after the fact-- combination of my having day job, Jewish holidays, and migraines. But late though they are they will be coming-- who knows, these shows may show up again-- and the theatre season is well underway so we'll have loads more for you this month.  We'd love to see your pics and events too and are working on a way that you can share them to our site; in the meantime you can always post to Facebook.

and remember to add your events to our calendar if you want them to be listed in our eblasts.
 

Jump on it!

Cheers,

Gwen