Homecoming concert for Bobby Bradshaw
Bob Bradshaw is returning to Mitchelstown from the United States with his band for a homecoming show at Saint George’s Arts and Heritage Centre later this month.
Among other things, he will be remembered locally as one of the first staff members of The Avondhu newspaper back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, working as a reporter.
Bob got his start in music playing with the Mitchelstown Druids in the early 1980s, and has been exploring many facets of Americana music in the thirty years that he’s lived in the States, where he has forged a successful career as a singer songwriter. His inspiration comes from the Texas singer- songwriters whom he strives to emulate, to the roots-rock he plays in bar bands any night of the week in Boston.
He has lived in New York City and in
San Francisco, where his rock band ‘Resident Aliens’ was successful in the 1990s, and recorded a live album there, ‘Alien Alert’ along with Fermoy music legend, Ron Kavana. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 2009, having mostly played in bluegrass ensembles there. Praised as a writer of ‘instant classics’ by No
Depression magazine, and as a ‘master craftsman’ by RnR Magazine, Bradshaw is presently working on his tenth album of original songs, ‘The Art of Feeling Blue’.
Joining Bob at Saint George’s, Mitchelstown on Friday, May 27th will be Andrew Stern on electric guitar, John Sheeran on Bass and Mike Connors on drums.
Tickets (€ 20) are available from Eventbrite, in local outlets - The Favourite, Spar and Reidy’s Kitchen Garden or call 0878113611. Show time is 8pm.