SABRINA PIGGOTT


Date: 01 Jun 2019
Time: 8pm

SABRINA

with support from

SIOBHAN MAC MAHON

JUNE 1st

THE VINTAGE ROOM

 

Sabrina’s songs are full of a sense of open space and possibilities. For Sabrina is an adventuress. An award-winner. In many ways a free spirit.

Her rich traditional music background derives from her ancestral home, the countryside of Cork, in Ireland. And her distinctive rippling, almost Philip Glass evoking, acoustic guitar style sets the tone for a heart-melting voice, with its Celtic timbre, that pulls the emotion out of the lyric.

In the last couple of years Sabrina has honed her material and live act, touring Ireland, England and in the USA. Now she’s teamed with ace cellist David Hornberger (recorded with Badly Drawn Boy / cellist for BBC Radio 4 Daily Services) and producer David Crickmore (Steve Tilston / The Durbervilles / Fiat Lux).

The result is the exciting album Roots & Wings melding folk / roots / singer-songwriter with nu-classical and a sprinkling of tasteful dance beats which will be released on the 5th April 2019.

 

Siobhan Mac Mahon is an award-winning Performance Poet who has been creating Spoken Word projects for many years, combining poetry with music, dance and with film. She has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at UCD.

Winner of the WOMAD Festival Poetry slam 2017and the Ilkley Literature Poetry slam. She is published both online and in print – most recently in the Irish Times and in Skylight 47 and in a Bloodaxe Anthology – Hallelujah for 50 Foot Women. She is currently shortlisted for the Hennessey New Irish Writing Poetry award 2019.