 Date: Fri 12-03
Time: 21.30
Adm: FREE
The Rye is from the West Coast of Ireland and has the freshest and most exciting approach to Irish Music heard in recent times. ''Turn-on-a-dime chops rarely seen outside a lowerManhattan jazz club!" Celtic Pulse. NYC
A gig with The Rye is high-spirited, full-blown entertainment. "Not only does the band have that really fantastic ability to make even a stone statue tap its feet, they also have this amazing stage energy and presence that makes it difficult to turn away once they start performing." writes John O'Hara in The Galway Music Scene Review.
The band's line-up features Kevin Melly (vocals, acoustic guitar), Anna Falkenau (fiddle, backing vocals), Cian Mulligan (banjo, electric guitar, backing vocals), Barry Wallace (bass, banjo) and Dessie Harrington (drums). Some highlights of The Rye's busy gigging schedule -over one hundred gigs in 2009 - including Electric Picnic, The Life Festival, support slots to Mary Coughlan, Delorentos, The Pale, two Tours of Germany, including an open air gig for the St. Patrick's Day Celebrations in Munich with an audience of over fifteen thousand.
Galway Bay FM has described The Rye as "the liveliest band to come out of the West of Ireland since the Saw Doctors."
Their weekly appearances at The Cellar Bar in Galway were praised as "one of the most exciting residencies in Galway!" Jimi McDonnell in Tribune Life
"No one embodies the spirit of Jerry Garcia quite like the Rye, my new favourite band. They are on this disc with 'Big Dip,' a fiery instrumental jam that pits frantic fiddling against a stomping beat and wicked acoustic licks." Mike Farragher in Irish Voice. NYC
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