Merriman and Stuart in Kilmore
Liam Merriman and Bill Stuart are back in the Stella Maris Centre in Kilmore Quay on Friday, February 22, following a recent performance at the launch in the same venue of the book Sea Fever-Inside Kilmore Quay’s Fishing Community.
The set will include an entertaining mix of Irish and international folk songs, pop hits, country classics and some of Merriman’s own inventive compositions.
Wexford-born Merriman was most recently heard on the John Creedon Show on RTE radio. He has been a stalwart of the Irish music scene for many years, has close links with Kilmore Quay where he spent many childhood holidays, and several of the songs in his repertoire have links with the sea.
In fact the water theme is strongly present in his latest album Acoustic Rivers for which he has recorded a 10-minute documentary available now on YouTube.
The album was recorded in Nashville where Liam enjoys a sterling reputation among the local music community.
Bill Stuart has impeccable credentials as an accomplished and versatile guitarist who’s as much at home in the folk-country environment of a Merriman-Stuart concert as he is with the heavy rock music of his band Meniscus. ‘Having Bill on board has opened up new musical horizons for me’, said Merriman.
Doors open at 7.30 p.m. and the gig starts at 8 p.m.