Bothy Band announced for special Sligo Live concert Pre-sale tickets set to open tomorrow, Friday
SLIGO Live Festival has announced a very special festival headline concert featuring the Bothy Band on Saturday, October 26 in the Knocknarea Arena ATU Sligo at 8.30 pm.
Pre-sale tickets are priced at €52.50 + €2.50 service charge and are on sale tomorrow, Friday at 10am.
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The Bothy Band is the first headline act announced for the Sligo Live International Festival which runs for 11 days from October 24 to November 3 featuring a host of performances spanning acoustic, traditional, indie, folk, americana, blues and alt-country genres together with a healthy sprinkling of comedy shows.
Other revered names and exciting new performers will follow in the coming weeks and months.
The Bothy Band is one of the most important traditional bands in history and stands out as the most influential and revered of the many ensembles who revolutionised the playing of traditional music in recent generations. They have not played a major live show in more than 40 years.
During their brief five-year history they blazed like a comet across the firmament of Celtic music. Coming together in October of last year to record a documentary for Irish television, the band members – all legendary figures in Irish music – enjoyed the experience so much that they agreed to perform some long anticipated concerts.
Donal Lunny (bouzouki), Tríona ní Dhomhnaill (keyboards), Matt Molloy (flute), Paddy Keenan (uilleann pipes, low whistle), Paddy Glackin (fiddle) and Kevin
Burke (fiddle) will perform at ATU Sligo’s Knocknarea Arena on October 26th next. They will be joined by Seán Óg Graham on guitar.
Between 1975 and 1979 the band released four albums, all of which are regarded as classics of their type. They gave incendiary live performances driven by a front line of fiddle, pipes and flute and underpinned by their powerhouse rhythm section, which cemented their reputation as perhaps the most innovative and exciting combinations ever to play traditional music.
Founding member, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill died in 2006 and Tommy Peoples, who played fiddle on the band’s first recording, died five years ago.
Sligo Live producer, Rory O’Connor said, “The Bothy Band are playing a small number of gigs in Europe and Sligo Live are privileged to have them for one night only.
“Many of our longstanding festival fans will remember the excitement of their appearances at the Ballisodare Festival and in other Sligo and national venues during the 70’s. In an interview a few years ago, when asked who was my dream Sligo Live act, I said ‘The Bothy Band but that will never happen’. And now, I can hardly believe they are playing again and have selected Sligo Live as one of their first gigs. As the saying goes - Never say ‘never’!”
The Bothy Band pre-sale tickets are on sale on February 9 using the presale code subscribers receive by email from Sligo Live Festival.
To get your Bothy Band pre-sale code, visit sligolive.ie to subscribe or email info@sligolive.ie for further info and assistance.
Remaining tickets for the show will go on general sale at 10am on Thursday, February 15 from sligolive.ie, Ticketmaster and the Hawk’s Well Theatre box office in person or by phone (071) 916 1518.
Tickets cost €52.50 plus €2.50 s.c. and are limited to eight per person.