The Model

Sligo Live Festival Club Acoustic Stage

Day Friday, 28th October 2011
Time 9:30pm Tickets €10
Masters of Tradition
Double bill Seamus Begley & Tim Edey
and Maurice Lennon

Accordion player and singer Seamus Begley hails from the west Kerry Gaeltacht. A farmer, Seamus has a puckish sense of humour and an indefatigable love of music and song who can light up any room with his personality and presence. He plays the polkas, slides and jigs of his native region and can silence a room with his heart rending songs.

He is joined by the dynamic guitar player Tim Edey, whose musical understanding of Seamus’ music is informed by his own excellence as an accordion player. Their combination makes for exhilarating entertainment.

Maurice Lennon
Leitrim fiddle player Maurice Lennon, (Stockton’s Wing) has always had a very strong connection to Sligo. After leaving Summerhill College in 1977, Maurice become one of the youngest ever All-Ireland Senior fiddle title winners. He joined Stockton’s Wing and has remained a professional musician ever since, working with legendary artists like John Prine, Sean Keane, Liam Clancy, Sharon Shannon, Donal Lunny. Maurice is releasing his forthcoming album The Spirit of the Music in the coming months and is delighted to return from Chicago for Sligo Live.

Day Saturday, 29th October 2011
Time 8PM Tickets €10
The Staves & The Dirty Beggars

The Scottish Connection in association with Creative Scotland
Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Staveley-Taylor have been making music together since they were children. Singing in perfect 3-part harmony came naturally to these three sisters who were brought up in a house that echoed to the sounds of Simon & Garfunkel, Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Beatles.
The Staves are now captivating audiences on much bigger stages including Glastonbury and Cambridge- earning rapturous encores with their exquisite songs of love & longing. Accompanied by just acoustic guitar and gently strummed ukulele, their extraordinary intertwining voices melt the most cynical of hearts. Guaranteed to give you goosebumps, The Staves make music in its purest and most beautiful form.

From Central Scotland, The Dirty Beggars are five boys born in the wrong country. With the music of the Appalachians running in their blood, their brand of down and dirty bluegrass crossover has been electrifying crowds all over the UK. The Dirty Beggars are Kieran Begbie (Vocals, Guitar), Finn Begbie (Vocals, Harmonica, Mandolin, Guitar), Pete Begbie (Vocals, Banjo, Guitar), Stuart Printie (Double Bass, Dobro, Guitar) and Pedro Cameron on Hot fiddle, blasting out the tunes made popular in the bluegrass revival, as well as their own compositions. Old Crow Medicine Show, Trampled by Turtles, Alison Krauss and Union Station and Dave Rawlings Machine are among their influences.

Day Saturday, 29th October 2011
Time 10PM Tickets €8
RURA & JPTRIO Double Bill

RURA combines the passions and influences of some of Scotland’s most exciting young musicians. Featuring three ‘BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year’ finalists and an All Ireland Bodhran champion, RURA’s powerful music is creating a buzz throughout the folk scene. Highland pipes, whistles, fiddle, guitar, bodhran, flute as well as an array of effects pedals create a fierce and versatile sound. Having performed mainstage at a number of major festivals including Celtic Connections in 2011, RURA are fresh from recording their first demo. Rura’s line up at Sligo Live is Innes Watson – Fiddle and Guitar; Steven Blake – Highland Bagpipes and Whistles; David Foley – Bodhran, Flute and Whistles; Chris Waite – Guitar and Adam Holmes – vocals and guitar.

JPTRIO
Lively, fresh, adventurous describes this new trad/jazz/fusion sound from the Sligo based JPTrio. Brothers Ted and Jos Kelly and their former Sligo Grammar schoolmate Paddy Hazleton play a melodic and rhythmic fusion of traditional, jazz and world music where Paddy’s subtle driving beats propel the complex and musically sophisticated interchanges between Jos’s accordion and piano and Ted on banjo and tenor guitar. JPTrio were winners of a Danny Kyle award for emerging artists at Celtic Connections festival last January and all three are former members of the Siansa Gael Linn winning group Spraoi. The lads will be joined by their new band member and singer Niamh Farrell on the night. Niamh’s vocals are stunning to say the least, her voice is recognized as potentially one of the most promising in the traditional idiom.
‘the new cutting edge of fused traditional traditional Irish music’ Martin O’Connor