Seomra Spraoi Cafe Gig: Alt County/Roots from Australia

dublin | miscellaneous | event notice Saturday December 26, 2009 12:55 by seomra spraoi - seomra spraoi seomraspraoi at gmail dot com 10 Belvidere Court, Dublin 1 01 8728670

Van Walker & Liz Stringer:

Seomra Spraoi Cafe Gig: Wed 30th Dec 2009

Van Walker & Liz Stringer:
Alt County/Roots from Australia

www.myspace.com/lizstringermusician

www.myspace.com/ramblinvanwalker

Food Served 7.30pm
€5 suggested donation for 3 courses

Music: 8.30pm
€5 suggested donation/more/less as you can afford

Relatively unknown outside their Australian homeland, Van Walker & Liz Stringer bring their original roots music to Europe on this two month xmas/newyears tour that covers Irleland, ENgland & Germany. Liz Stringer is a demon guitarist with the voice on an angel. Her 1st album SOON (20067) & follow up PENDULUM (2008) earning her commercial & critical acclaim & supporting slots on national tours with Eric Bibb & Mia Dyson, plus a spot on SxSW. Van Walker is a figer-stylist in the grand tradition of the bard, weaving his strange stories around beguiling melodies & driving blues. His releases, The Celestial Railroad (2008) & The Last Record Store, Greetings From Penguin Tasmania, & Love Fate (2009, three releases in one year!) have seen his reputation grow as the new songwriters songwriter, sharing stages with Paul Kelly, Chris Bailey (Saints) & The Old Crow Medicine Show, & gaining support from such oz rock lumanaries as Tim Rodgers, Mick Thomas, Kim Salmon & Spencer P Jones.
They're here in town playing releatively unknown so come down & catch them in this initmate show & judge for yourself.

Seomra Spraoi: Dublin's Autonomous Social centre
10 Belvidere Court
Off Gardiner Street
(Near Mountjoy Square)
Dublin

www.seomraspraoi.org