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The team behind "The Gathering" storytelling festival are getting ready for a great night tomorrow night, Saturday 21 February with Dubliner Kyron Burke celebrating Leonard Cohen this Saturday. After sellout shows at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast and The Court House in Bangor, Kyron Bourke and his band (Paddy Craig (percussion), Mateusz Hmmyeahlevysky (guitars), Padraig Dooney (keyboards, EWI, backing vocals), BB Dean (backing vocals) is coming to Chandlers House to celebrate the late legendary Leonard Cohen with fresh, rousing interpretations of some of his most memorable songs.
Dublin born and Belfast based, Bourke has been referred to here as ‘the broken city’s minstrel, an outsider telling tales in song of heartbreak, guilt and experience’. From an early age the young Bourke was drawn to the haunting lyrical beauty of Cohen’s work and remembers being completely hooked after his first stage appearance performing One of Us Cannot Be Wrong at a school fundraiser.
Bourke will be performing a selection of the bard’s most loved classics, infusing them with his own special brand of loss and longing, as he too grapples with the weight of existential questions and channels the emotion through his inimitable ‘Cohenesque rasp’.
So snap up your tickets for a great night this Saturday 21st February. Chandlers House, Church Square, Rathfriland, at 8pm, (doors at 7pm), cost £15 online on Ticketsource. Or call 075 40866986. “The Gathering, Hilltown Storytelling Festival”, is organised by Hilltown Community Association, running for its fifth year, check out the full list of events online on The Gathering Facebook page at hilltowngathering
Get your tickets at www.ticketsource.co.uk
