CLARE BYRNE and INK THE OCTOPUS


Date: 01 Aug 2017
Time: 8pm (The Vintage Room)

CLARE BYRNE AND INK THE OCTOPUS ANNOUNCE IRELAND TOUR

IN SUPPORT OF NEW MUSIC RELEASES

What happens when a Vermont country-based singer-songwriter and an urban alternative acoustic duo

from Brooklyn, NY come together for a common purpose? A week of musical exploration and touring in

Ireland:

August 1 Workman’s Pub, Dublin

August 2 Greywood Arts Residency, Killeagh

August 3 Crowley’s Bar, Kenmare

August 5 Roisin Dubh, Galway

August 9 NellieFred’s, Dingle

Byrne and Ink the Octopus bring city and country together: sharply crafted songwriting in heart-and-

soulfully rollicking folk-indie arrangements on guitar, keyboards, harmonica, percussion and harmonizing

vocals. The three musicians draw on influences diverse and rich: Wilco, Simon and Garfunkel, Joan

Armatrading, and Joni Mitchell.

Byrne, Strauss and de Laroque met in the candle-lit bohemian music club of Radio Bean in Burlington,

Vermont in 2014. The three have been sharing engagements since. Raised in Amish country and a New

Yorker for fifteen years, Byrne now hails from the tiny hamlet of Huntington, VT. DeLaroque, originally

from Paris, France, and Strauss, born in Queens, are now residents of the Brooklyn music scene.

Byrne is a lifelong contemporary dancer and choreographer who picked up the guitar six years ago and

began a second career in music & songwriting. Remy De Laroque started a career as a singer in the

French band Dyva, signed to the French Record Co. Carrere. He moved to NYC and collaborated with

Rebecca Martin and Rew in addition to promoting his own career. Dan Strauss is a connoisseur of

instruments who calls the recording studio his true home. He began learning piano as a boy by playing

Springsteen and Beatles songs, eventually taught himself guitar and began writing songs in his twenties.

danstraussmusic.com

Though they have always supported each other musically in New York City and Vermont. DeLaroque and

Strauss formed Ink The Octopus in 2016 to truly merge their musical journeys and are releasing their

debut EP this summer. Byrne also released her first EP, Seed in May 2017, in a recording and release

party that included Strauss and DeLaroque.

Contact information

Please get in touch with Clare at clare.s.byrne@gmail.com and Ink The Octopus at

theoctopusink@gmail.com for guest list, interviews, or promo copies of Seed and Ink The Octopus.