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Hermitage Green Live at the Big Top 2016

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It is only a few months wait for fans as Limerick’s own Hermitage Green return for Hermitage Green Live at the Big Top 2016 in our county’s iconic Milk Market on Sunday May 1st 2016. Read on to find out where you can get your hands on some greatly anticipated tickets!

The fivepiece are Darragh Graham on banjo, djembe, backing vocals; songwriter Darragh Griffin on vocals, guitars; Dan Murphy on vocals, guitars, dobro, and harmonica; Barry Murphy on vocals and bass; and Dermot Sheedy on bodhran. They formed in July 2010 in what started out as a spontaneous jam session between friends and soon developed into a strong acoustic outfit with an original acoustic trad/folk sound for which the band have credited their contrasting musical tastes.

The group have evolved from playing back room gigs in older Murphy Brian’s Curragower pub in Limerick city to a major touring outfit with one live album under their belt.

Hermitage Green have spent the last couple of years touring relentlessly, winning over legions of fans and selling out shows in Ireland, the UK and Australia. Incendiary live performances and a curious arrangement of instruments help give Hermitage Green their distinctive live sound. Captivating audiences and earning the respect from music pundits, it seems fitting that their debut album should capture the raw power of the band on stage.


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The band released their debut EP, ‘The Gathering’ in September 2012, rocketing straight into number 1 in the iTunes chart. The band followed this success with tours of France, the UK, the Middle East, South Africa and the US.

Last year the lads got signed to a record deal after almost three months of wooing by the Sony Ireland subsidiary of the worldwide label. The deal is for one album, with the option of four more to follow potentially. “We met the whole Sony team, they are all very sound, they haven’t signed many artists in the last few years and they are promising that they have got their whole team behind us,” Barry tells me.

2015 was a phenomenal year for Hermitage Green. The Band sold out venues in Dublin, Cork, Limerick (Spiegeltent and Dolans), Galway, Belfast, London, Cardiff and Dubai as well as releasing two singles “Jenny” and “Quicksand”.
 
They are now putting the final touches to their eagerly anticipated studio album, set for release in February 26 through Sony Music.

Tickets for Hermitage Green Live at the Big Top 2016 are €23 (including booking fee) and are available from Dolans.ie and Ticketmaster and will be on sale on Friday Jan 8th at 9am.

 

On Sales Date Friday 8th January

Announcement Wednesday the 6th  2pm

Tickets 23 euros plus booking fee

For more info see http://www.hermitagegreen.com/

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