Mikey Kenney is a respected fiddle player, singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist from Liverpool.
Embracing duality, Kenney is very much the musical outsider artist: both an advocate for English and Irish traditional fiddle music and an alternative and progressive music creator, taking in multiple musical influences from psychedelia, bluegrass to jazz and Italian tarantella. He will perform new material from forthcoming album Tiny Little Light, due for release in September 2025, with Michael Paul Metcalfe (drums) and Hannah Miller (cello). With the exception of two instrumentals, this new album is a collection of songs written around original fiddle tunes in keeping with traditional forms but progressive in their arrangement and instrumentation. Kenney considers it his finest work yet and the truest expression of a life devoted to his craft.
“Mikey Kenney is an artist for whom music is a calling, not a career choice…a singular and inspiring talent... unfettered by expectations of geography or genre, and a wanderer of worlds both seen and invisible, Kenney is an authentic free spirit.”
— 5/5 fRoots
Aside from his reputation for his original work, Kenney is also very much in demand as a collaborator and session musician for his fiddle-playing and string arranging and has worked with the likes of: Vinicio Capossela, Alabaster dePlume, Katherine Priddy, Josephine Foster, Bex Burch, Band of Burns, Adam Beattie, Emily Portman, Dominie Hooper, Victor Herrero, Alessandro 'Asso' Stefana, Dan Haywood's New Hawks, Liverpool Céilí Band, Jon Wilks, Johnny Campbell and more.
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