Coming up at the Culturlann Sweeney

Coming up at the Culturlann Sweeney

Friday October 13th

Chris Wood 8pm

Tickets €20

Ex member of the Oysterband (Oyster Ceilidh Band) Chris Wood is an uncompromising writer whose music reveals his love for the un-official history of the English speaking people. With gentle intelligence he ​ ​weaves the​ ​tradition with his own contemporary parables.​ ​A self-taught musician, composer and song writer, Chris is a lifelong autodidact​ ​whose independent streak shines through everything he does. Always direct and​ ​unafraid to speak his mind, his song writing has been praised for its surgical clarity.​ ​​ ​His most recent album ‘So Much to Defend’ (2017) received ecstatic reviews: ROOTS MAGAZINE “Chris Wood might be the Ken Loach of songwriting. Very political, but at the​ ​same time full of compassion, and he grows sharper and more acute with each​ ​passing album. He’s good, quite probably the very best we have today, and we​ ​need him more than ever.
Hollow Point, his chilling ballad of the shooting of Jean Charles Menezes, won a BBC​ ​Folk Award (he’s won six.) and emphatically secured Wood’s place as a serious​ ​speech-master for the unofficial history of England.




Dates for the diary.

November 1st @ 7:30 pm Film Club – The Night Of The Hunter

November 10th – Donal Lunny and Mick Hanly.

December 8th – Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh with Donal O’ Connor and Gerry O’ Beirne.

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