Hey we are heading towards the highlight of the Festival week – Sunday Family Fun Day lots of great events for all the family in Lucan Village. One of the the big event on the Sunday will be the Village Stage 8 great bands appearing from 1.30 to 6pm. Around 3pm we are also hoping to have a little Dublin silverware on the stage if you get my meaning?
Here is the schedule of bands appearing on the day, come down and enjoy some great music!
Sophie Coyle from Dundalk began writing songs at the age of 12 on a rare ‘two string’ guitar but threw it all away to complete her secondary school studies. All the old 45minute cassette tapes containing her songs have been lost or taped over, such is life.
Sophie’s music could be described as folk-jazz, old-timey feel with quirky lyrics and catchy tunes.Her song `Delirium` has been used for the Credits of `Spiderhole`, a 2010 feature length, Irish made horror film being distributed internationally. She has sung at many well-established Irish venues such as the Spirit Store, the Roisin Dubh, the Cobblestone, the Belltable, and at the Electric Picnic. Sophie recently played support to John Spillane and was also on the line up for this year’s Flat Lakes Festival just gone.
Sophie’s’ influences included Ella Fitzgerald, Hugues Aufrey, Divine Comedy, Madeleine Peyroux, Willie Colon, John Spillane, Joni Mitchell, St. Vincent, Bob Dylan.
The Village stage promises to keep the crowd entertained through the afternoon with the best line up of acts ever seen at one location in Lucan. This is one event you don’t want to miss at its all FREE!
Local band Morgan La Faye, have had a good year on the Irish music scene appearing at many festivals up and down the country. We are delighted that they will also perform at The Village Stage on Sunday 25th of September.
Morgan La Faye began with Robbie and Derek meeting up and jamming some songs they both had been working. Later Robbie and Derek were joined by bass player Dar O’Brien who gave they guys that deeper thump they needed. The threesome used Dar’s sufficiently sized shed for a few months before they took the show on the road. A combination of fate and the internet delivered to their door a drummer! – Darren Malone this completed the line-up of Morgan La Faye. They guys have been gigging over the past few years at some of the best music venues around the city such as Whelans, The Village, Crawdaddy, and The Mezz.
Earlier this month the guys went into the studio to record their very first single which will released late summer. No strangers to Lucan Festival they also performed at last year’s festival. We look forward to having them back!
Here is one of our favourites ‘The Grass is Greener’
Having played solo for a number of years under her own name, Adela Meally was nominated as Best Female at the Balcony TV Awards 07 and was hyped as the “new queen of the local indie scene” by Hot Pres
Adela, played support to John Spillane, Eleanor McEvoy, Liam O Maoinlai, Don Mescall, Gavin Glass, Juliet Turner, Damien Dempsey, Mick Flannery & Arthur Ebeling and also made a video ‘Party for Three’ with the New York Film University. The song has been described as “Sesame Street on craic” and as having “hit written all over it” according to John Creedon of RTE Radio 1.
Comprised of a group of four professional musicians, Adela and the Meanits began as a project in 2009 when they made their debut in the Body and Soul Arena at world famous music and arts festival, Electric Picnic.
After a chance encounter on a St Patrick’s Day float in Portlaoise, Adela met drummer Ros O’ Meara. Then a member of several bands, Ros introduced Adela to Barry Hayes who in turn introduced everyone to John Davidson. Like peas in a far out pod…they became Adela and the Meanits. Their music has been likened to Madness, Sultans of Ping and Lily Allen, but comparisons aside, Adela and the Meanits have an infectious, happy buzz in their sound. Their live shows are a quirky mix of trashcan jazz-meets-pop-meets-folk.
All four musicians (Adela Meally, John Davidson, Ros O’ Meara, Barry Hayes). are multi-instrumentalists and incorporate vocals, double bass, piano, ukulele, melodica, drums/percussion, nylon string guitar and violin with effects pedals into each live performance. They are now set to release their debut album just in time for this year’s summer festivals. The upcoming studio album has a definite left of centre pop sound.
We are delighted that Adela and the Meanits will perform at The Village Stage Sunday September 25th.
We are on a roll today!! yet another act confirmed for The Village Stage on September 25th they are Water Woods and Mountain. Formed in 2007 they would describe their music as a mixture of Blues, Country and Classic Rock.
In the past two years the Band has played many of the well-known music venues including Sweeney’s, Whelan’s and Andrews Lane Theatre to name a few, and are known for their energetic live performances and raw bluesy sound.
Mick Purcell – (guitar, harp, and vocals), Mark Sherratt- (percussion), Thom Conaty – (bass and vocals), Paddy Egan – (guitar and vocals)
The are playing at the Healyfest Music Festival in Ballycastle, Co. Mayo from Saturday 30th Sunday 31st July. If you would like to contact the band email waterwoodsandmountain@gmail.com
This years festival is really shaping up very nicely, we have now almost completed our line up for the the Village Stage on Sunday September 25th. The latest band to confirm are Half Shot.
Formed in 2006 – Half Shot are a 4 Piece Hard Rock band with two band members from Derry and two from Dublin. The line-up includes: Leo Devine (Vocals/Guitar) Stephen “Heeps” Devine (Lead Guitar/Vocals) Ben O’Brien (Bass) Luke Gleeson (Drums) who hails from Sarsfields Park in Lucan.
Half Shot are very much an in-your-face powerful rock band with influences from classic rock and 70’s punk such as ACDC, Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin while adding their own bit of spice for taste. They are a fantastic tight live rocking outfit with great riffs, melodies, leads, driving bass rhythm, thunderous drums and sound song structures. Half Shot are bound to get the crowd jumping around. Great to have them on board!.
The guys have a busy year ahead with gigs in Dublin, Derry and in the UK in Northampton and Nottingham.
Last night we were blown away by the array talent that exists in Lucan, we really did have the STARS OF LUCAN. If you were not there here are some images from last nights show. Watch we have another fundraiser coming up late August.
We are putting the final touches to our fund-raising event THE STARS OF LUCAN. This event is very important to us as it is one of the few ways we have of covering festival expenses.
We have lined up many great Lucan acts including Sarah O’Connor who is the patron of our Festival. Sarah will be given her first performance in Lucan following her wonderful achievement in Fame the Musical on RTE1.
We also have the the Lee Byrne Academy of Dance, they were establish in West Dublin in 1995 teaching Irish dancing. The Lee Byrne Academy have been special guest performers at Disneyland Resort Paris for the St. Patrick’s day festival every year since 2006.
Dancity Ireland are a fantastic new group in Lucan with students range in age from 4-25 yrs who teach a wide range of Dancing, Singing & Acting. Dancity Ireland came in 2nd in Minitops variety competition and went on to become the All Ireland Variety Champions this year.
Local band Morgan La Faye are doing well for themselves on the Dublin music scene, in venues such as Whelans and Crawdaddy. Currently working on new songs they hope to release a single and an EP by the end of 2010. There are some other acts yet to be confirmed, but it should be a great evenings entertainment.
We would like to thank Finnstown House Hotel who have provided the ballroom for the event for free. Please come along and support our Festival fund-raiser.
Admission is €10 for adults with special concession for families. Hope to see you all on Thursday July 22nd at 8pm.
The line up for tomorrow evenings fund-raiser is now complete. We are delighted that local singer songwriter Ciaran Nestor will perform a 15 minute set at Finnstown House Hotel. Looking forward to hearing Ciaran’s set!
The show also features Sarah O’Connor, Dancity Ireland, Lee Byrne Dance Academy. Originally from Ghana Cynthia Addo, will perform a very traditional Ghanaian dance. The final act of the evening will be local band doing very well for themselves on the Dublin music scene Morgan La Faye.
It should be a wonderful evenings entertainment and all proceeds from the event will go towards the entertainment at our festival in September.
Don’t forget Thursday July 22nd at 8pm Finnstown House hotel!!
We are hoping to have a great bunch of local lads, Morgan La Faye’ do a gig at this years Festival. You can see then at venues all over Dublin including Whelans, The Village, Crawdaddy, The Mezz.
On the 10th of July you can catch them in The County Bar, Lucan, a charity event aid of Nagarhope, to help build children’s home in Nepal. €10 on the door.
Morgan La Faye “The Grass is Greener” ……..Sounds good guys!
