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DylanFest Bands

Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007

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DylanFest Bands

Booked

The Phantom Engineers

The Phantom Engineers will be playing in the Malin Road on Saturday Night between 8pm and 10pm.

Tony Villiers, the lead singer will be playing in Rosatos between 2pm and 4pm on Saturday afternoon.

Another member of the band Alias will be doing a Dylan Vinyl Disco in the Town Clock on Friday night from 11pm.

Buick 6

Local guys Paddy, Sean and Tim will be playing the Bar-A-Cuda on Friday night, Rawdons on Saturday night and are playing Rosatos on Sunday night.

The New Fools – The 6-piece band will be playing in the main square in Moville from 8-10pm on Friday the 30th of June.

They are Belgium's top Dylan band and they said said that they will play for free. They said “If you want to pay our flight and hotel, then we play for free, even several times (e.g. Once on Friday, once on Saturday and in another place/pub)”.

Lauren Murphy

Lauren Murphy is a singing sensation and has played the Rory Gallagher Festival as well as supporting major bands. Her father has seen Bob Dylan 26 times and he has passed on his love for Dylan.

Quite a few people from Moville saw Lauren sing at the Rory Gallagher concert and are looking forward to see her sing in Rawdons on the Saturday at 3-4:30pm and in the Bar-A-Cuda from 5-6:30pm on Sunday.

Steph Buhe

Steph Buhe is coming over from France to play the DylanFest. He can be caught on Friday night at Rawdons from 11pm onwards and from 2-4pm at the Bar-A-Cuda on Saturday afternoon.

James O'Connor

James O’Connor, a 21 year musician from Laois, has been writing songs for the last number of years. This year marks James’ first appearance in the Irish Compilation charts with his playlisted track “Mr. Moon” and “Something Keeps Me” appearing on the top 5 album “Our Space”.

After teaming up with Audrey Trainor, a classically trained violinist, who also appeared on the hit album, they have been performing both James’ songs and other artists songs such as “Don’t think twice, It’s alright” by Bob Dylan at various venues around the country such as “Radio City” and “The National Concert Hall”. Audrey and James are delighted to be a part of the DylanFest.

“Other highlights include the acoustic stylings of James O’Connor and his song “Mr. Moon”, which recalls the melodic, dreamy song – writing of Nick Drake” – John Cleary, The Kilkenny Advertiser, April 2007.

William Byrne

A young songwriter, who has also been influenced by Bob Dylan. William’s song “Gateway to Eire” received national exposure on RTE radio last year, when it was featured on the hit album “One Good Jukebox”, particularly impressing the “Seascape” listeners.

For the last couple of years, William has been playing nationally and internationally, and is just after finishing a residency in “Foley’s” in Merrion Square, as he puts the finishing touches to his debut album “Building Bridges” which is due for release late this summer.

“’Gateway to Eire’, a ballad by William Byrne, sits comfortably somewhere between the feistiness of early Saw Doctors and Paddy Reilly” – Jackie Hayden HotPress, July 2006.

Niall Dunleavy

Nial from Kildare will be playing Rawdons on saturday night from 11pm onwards.

Martin Menihane

He will be coming up from Cork to play in Rawdons at 5pm on Saturday afternoon.

The Plea

The Plea from Ballyliffin will be playing Rosatos on the Friday night from 11pm and will be playing at tthe Bar-A-Cuda from 5pm to 7pm.

Denis and Dermott of The Plea have been the top Dylanesque band around Donegal for years and guest bands will have to be good to outdo them.