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Luka Bloom (Ire)

– A Socially Distant Show

Wednesday 22nd July 2020

Raheen House Hotel, Clonmel

 

Luka Bloom will take to the stage in Raheen House Hotel on Wednesday 22nd July.

TICKETS SOLD IN PAIRS ONLY

These will be the second set of Socially Distanced shows following two very successful shows with Mary Coughlan last week.

The main features of the socially distant aspect of the shows are:

All current Govt/HSE guidelines for indoor events will be strictly adhered to.

Shows will be fully seated, and socially distanced. Maximum of 2 people per household/pod. The chairs are in pairs, each pair has a table, and there is exactly 2m between each set of pairs. Couples, or same household pods, will be seated together.

Seating will be numbered, and will be allocated before the show.

Luka Bloom:

Having tread the boards of stages all over the globe, a lifetime of craft honing has given Luka Bloom from Newbridge a place on the music map. Luka comes from a family of singers and writers first going on tour with older brother, Christy Moore, in 1969. It was a tour of English folk clubs and he was fourteen years of age. That was a long time ago. Luka has since brought his songs to clubs, theatres, fesitivals, bars, arenas and dives all over the world. From McGanns in Boston to The Tivoli in Brisbane to Red Hot Club in Newbridge.

Its 1987, Barry Moore flew out to America and Luka Bloom came back. Singing his songs around the US, gigging with The Pogues, the Violent Femmes, The Dixie Chicks, Hothouse Flowers, The Cowboy Junkies. He signed with Warner Music in Los Angeles, and made ‘Riverside’, ‘The Acoustic Motorbike’, and ‘Turf’.

The Clonmel shows will be Luka’s first Irish show since the lockdown, and will come on the week on the release of his new Album.

Luka Bloom has released a single from his upcoming album, Bittersweet Crimson.

Titled ‘The Beauty of Everyday Things,’ the track is the first that fans have heard from Bloom’s new album, which comes out on July 20th.

As its title suggests, ‘The Beauty of Everyday Things’ is an ode to the ordinary. Backed by delicate classical guitar, Bloom sings about the simple pleasures of summer: diving off a pier, sitting in the sun, listening to a blackbird sing.

Bloom said on his website that a “glorious” summer at his County Clare home inspired him to write these scenes. “I wanted to celebrate the simplicity of life moving outdoors,” he said, “coming together and having a laugh doing ordinary things.”

Bloom added that “this feels even more perfect now, in 2020,” alluding to the poignancy these lyrics take on as the COVID-19 crisis forces us indoors.

Bloom recorded ‘The Beauty of Everyday Things’ in Dublin just before the quarantine began. Guitarist Steve Cooney, drummer Robbie Harris, bassist Jon O’Connell and fiddler Adam Shapiro also appear on the track, which they produced at Windmill Lane studios.

County Sligo Singer Niamh Farrell contributed the track’s spectral backing vocals remotely after lockdown took effect.

Over several days of collaboration, the musicians also recorded ten more songs for the album. Like ‘The Beauty of Everyday Things,’ these songs were written by Bloom at his County Clare home over the past two years.

Bittersweet Crimson will be the twenty-second release in Bloom’s career of more than fifty years. Bloom got his start touring with his older brother, folk singer Christy Moore, but soon earned recognition for his own poetic songwriting and unique guitar style.

Check out Bloom’s latest single, ‘The Beauty of Everyday Things,’ on his website.

 

 

Doors for the gig will open at 7.45pm

Luka Bloom will be onstage at 8pm prompt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The very embodiment of the folk singer, Luka Bloom has that deep sense of social justice with an uncanny ability to distil contemporary life into the pithiest and most alluring combinations of lyrics and melody lines. His voice is still as open and honest as it was over 30 years ago, and his guitar finds chord combinations that are all his own. Passion, playfulness and pause for thought: a hearty combination in any gig.” Siobhan Long, Irish Times.

Doors 7.40 pm.

Luka Bloom onstage 8 pm sharp