Roman Candle, Off The Beaten Track and HSP are delighted to welcome Fionn Regan with special guest Yoshika Colwell to St Mary's Creative Space, Chester, on Tuesday, 21st October.
Tickets are £22.50 in advance from Grey n Pink Records or See Tickets.
FIONN REGAN
Fionn Regan is a Mercury Nominated Artist amongst numerous other nominations (Choice Prize, Shortlist prize and Meteor Awards) and has 125 million streams worldwide.
His song “Abacus” has been recently sampled by Bon Iver for the song “00000 Million” on his GRAMMY® Nominated album, 22, A million.
Following this, Fionn performed both his own song “Abacus” and “00000 Million” with Justin Vernon.
Fionn is a unique poetic voice in music and has been consistently critically acclaimed with 4/5 star and 8/10 reviews from the likes of MOJO ✭✭✭✭ Q ✭✭✭✭ THE GUARDIAN ✭✭✭✭
OBSERVER ✭✭✭✭ DAILY MAIL ✭✭✭✭ THE MIRROR ✭✭✭✭
THE SUN ✭✭✭✭✭ THE SUNDAY TIMES ✭✭✭✭ “Album of the Month”
FINANCIAL TIMES ✭✭✭✭THE EVENING STANDARD ✭✭✭✭
THE INDEPENDENT ✭✭✭✭ UNCUT 8/10 NME - 8/10
HOTPRESS 8/10 PITCHFORK over the course of six albums.
Regan was invited to speak and made an ‘Honorary Member’ by the Trinity College Dublin Literary Society, its chairman saying, “In his music, Mr. Regan has done more than many artists to erode the boundaries between music and literature, with his lyrics always possessing the most beautiful poetry." He was granted their GOLD MEDAL in honour of his achievements.
Fionn was photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair magazine’s prestigious ‘music portfolio.’
Fionn was invited to perform “Hunters Map” on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC), the intricate finger-picking style of this song being one of the host’s personal favourite.
Oscar winning actor Cillian Murphy appeared alongside Fionn in the music video for his song “The Meetings of the Waters” (60 million streams worldwide).
YOSHIKA COLWELL
A captivating talent and vital new voice in the great canon of English folk music, Yoshika’s songs are often deeply personal and concerned with attempting to understand the self & others, time, nature and mortality. A life-long Joni Mitchell fan she also takes inspiration from a wide mix of artists inc. Gillian Welch to Linda Perhacs, John Prine to Talk Talk.
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