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Guitarists Mickey Murphy, Newry; Pat Coldrick, Dublin and Thomas Leeb Austria are getting together for what should be an incredible night of music at the Sean Hollywood Arts Centre on Wednesday the 23rd of October at 8pm.
Thomas Leeb picked up the guitar for the same reason as every thirteen-year-old boy: he wanted to meet girls. He soon fell in love with the instrument, played his first solo concert at the age of fifteen and released his first acoustic guitar album at seventeen.
Leeb is a frequent performer at concerts and festivals in Asia, the Americas and Europe and has been featured in numerous guitar magazines all over the world. Every year, he teaches workshops and master classes in universities and colleges and his album “Desert Pirate” was voted one of the essential albums of the last twenty years by Acoustic Guitar Magazine.
His peculiar guitar style owes as much to percussive techniques as traditional fingerstyle guitar. What sets Thomas Leeb apart from some of his contemporaries is his ability to make pyrotechnics serve the music and three years studying West African traditional music give him a sense of timing and groove that is unusual in a guitarist.
All this has earned him a loyal world-wide following and influential fans such as Eric Roche who was his guitar teacher, “for about five minutes and then I heard him play”, Jon Gomm awarded him “ten out of ten Gomms” and Guthrie Govan who thinks that “what Thomas does on an acoustic guitar probably shouldn’t be legal.”
Check him out at www.thomasleeb.com
Mickey Murphy is a fingerstyle guitarist from Co. Down, N. Ireland and his solo performances contain a rich blend of original compositions with arrangements of popular songs, jazz standards and Irish traditional favourites. He regularly performs at clubs and festivals in Ireland and has also played in England, Scotland, France, Austria and Italy and plays his first German shows this year.
2011 marked the release of Mickey’s first solo album ‘Turais’ which has received many great reviews and lots of radio plays and he plans to release a follow up album in 2014.
He has worked alongside many of the world’s leading acoustic artists including Tony McManus, Thomas Leeb, Paul Brady, Horslips, Phil Coulter, Don Ross, Kieran Halpin, Jacques Stotzem and Beppe Gambetta.
View his website at www.MickeyMurphy.co.uk
Pat Coldrick is ultimately a classical guitarist but not in the sense that you or I think classical, he has taken this genre to another level altogether. While Pat plays his own great arrangements of modern pieces such as Desperado and Classical Gas, and huge classics like Asturias and Danza Paraguaya, the love songs like A Time For Us and Autumn Leaves, it is Pats own compositions that set him miles apart.
See his site at www.patcoldrick.com
Admission will be £8 Adults & £6 Concession - Pay At The Door
