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GWEN OREL
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The Only NY Journalist Who Writes for The Jewish Weekly Forward and Irish Music MagazineEmail Paul Brady to us to claim tickets to see the acclaimed Irish singer at City Winery tonight, Nov. 10!
        
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Paul Brady is at City Winery tonight!
We've got his bio from City Winery below. Me, I first was bowled over by Brady on an album I somehow acquired (yep, vinyl) about 10 years after it was made, a duo with Andy Irvine, titled "Andy Irvine/Paul Brady."  It's a simple, pared-down album; Brady's singing of "Arthur McBride" is the best version of that song I've ever heard. Brady had played with Planxty for a little while before that. But he has become known for rock, too.

We've got a few pairs of tickets to give away.
 

About:

Paul Brady, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is one of Ireland’s most enduringly popular artists.

Born and raised in Strabane, Northern Ireland, on the border with the Irish Republic, he was into a wide variety of music from an early age. A Fifties child, his first sounds the Swing, Jazz, Show tunes of his parents generation. Then 50’s Rock ‘n Roll, 60’s pop and Motown, Blues, R’nB and Country and Western. Through all this ran the potent flavour of Irish traditional music and song.

Learning to play the piano pretty much by ear, trial and error, his early heroes were Jerry Lee Lewis, Winifred Atwell and Fats Domino. By the age of eleven he had begun to play guitar, spending hours of his school holidays learning every tune the Shadows and The Ventures recorded, every lick Chuck Berry played. Mid-teens saw him take summer jobs playing piano and guitar in Bundoran, a seaside resort in nearby County Donegal. But it was around 1965 in Dublin, at college, that he began to develop as a singer and performer joining a succession of R’n B / Soul bands including The Inmates, The Kult and Rootzgroop , covering the songs of Ray Charles, James Brown, Junior Walker and blues legends like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Chuck Berry.

“True For You” (1983), “Back To The Centre” (1985), Primitive Dance (1987), “Trick Or Treat” (1991) and “Spirits Colliding” (1995) collectively established Paul as the pre-eminent Irish singer-songwriter of his generation. Gradually other artists worldwide began to record his songs. Touring extensively both as a solo performer and with his own band he has forged a reputation as a passionate and exciting performer and attracts a dedicated following worldwide.

In 2004 Paul recorded in Nashville, the result of which was the 2005 released album “Say What You Feel” an organic and fresh sounding record, mostly cut live and in one or two takes at most per song, this record has further enhanced his reputation as a songwriter and performing artist of the highest calibre.

2010 saw Paul releasing his 14th solo album, ‘Hooba Dooba’ to widespread acclaim, with Hot Press editor Niall Stokes saying ‘This is by far Paul Brady’s most assured and deepest album since the seminal Hard Station. But give it time: we may yet conclude that he has finally eclipsed that extraordinary record’. As the year drew to a close, the cherry on the cake was a concert in Belfast’s Waterfront Theatre with the Ulster Orchestra as part of the 2010 Belfast Festival.

Paul Brady continues to push out the boundaries not only of his own talent but of Irish contemporary music in the new millennium. For details as to how to access his work please continue on your journey through the site. 

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