Sligo Live line-up filling up as more acts announced

THE line-up for the 2024 Sligo Live Festival is filling up with two more acts announced.

The Felice Brothers take to the stage on Friday November 1 and This Flight Tonight - The Songs of Joni Mitchell takes place on Saturday Oct 26. Tickets for both shows are on general sale online from Sligolive. ie and in person, or by phone (071) 9161518 from Hawk’s Well box office.

The Felice Brothers first emerged from the Hudson Valley nearly two decades ago with a gloriously ramshackle sound that drew on everything from Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan to Walt Whitman and Flannery O’Connor.

In just a few short years, the group went from busking in the subway to playing Radio City Music Hall and appearing everywhere from the Newport Folk Festival to Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble.

Beginning with 2007’s Tonight At The Arizona, the band helped pave the way for the modern folk revival, while at the same time challenging its boundaries and conventions with bold sonic experimentation and unyielding integrity.

The New York Times likened their music to “the rootsy mysticism of the Band,” while Rolling Stone praised the “scrappiness” of their “folk-rock noir.” The Guardian hailed their songs as “impeccably crafted, with literary-minded lyrics that are both playful and profound.”

The band’s latest record, Valley of Abandoned Songs, marks The Felice Brothers’ debut for Conor Oberst’s new Million Stars label. It showcases the group at their most intimate and unvarnished.

Balancing hope and despair in equal measure, the album explores the search for meaning and connection through the eyes of a wide-ranging cast of misfits and outcasts.

The recordings here span several years of almost-lost tunes. The result is a thoroughly cohesive collection that manages to feel both utterly timeless and particularly attuned to the present, all at once.

Tickets for The Felice Brothers are €29.50 plus fees and are on sale now.

Joni Mitchell is one of the most influential artists of the modern age, rising to stardom in the late 1960’s, Her music and song-writing are jewels in the crown of the Woodstock generation.

Bursting onto the scene with a sound entirely her own, Joni earned the respect of her musical peers and the love of her audiences worldwide.

Mitchell’s albums and songs are widely recognised as masterpieces, standards that would become the soundtrack to the lives of countless fans throughout the world and continue to draw and inspire new generations of fans.

‘ This Flight Tonight’ is a celebration of Joni Mitchell’s music that Zervas and Pepper have been crafting for many years.

The carefully-crafted set list will feature songs from Joni’s million-selling albums such as Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon, For The Roses, Court and Spark and includes many tracks from her 1972 landmark release ‘Blue’.

Welsh Singer/Songwriters Paul Zervas and Kathryn Pepper have been creating and performing original music for over a decade professionally. The duo and their recording/ touring band enjoy cult success on the UK and European Folk/ Americana scene and have released five critically-acclaimed studio albums. The duo took the This Flight Tonight – the Songs of Joni Mitchell show on the road for the first time in 2023.

Tickets for ‘ This Flight Tonight – The Songs of Joni Mitchell’ are €28 plus fees and are on sale now.

Although initial sales have been phenomenal, there are still some tickets remaining for The Bothy Band reunion of perhaps the most popular-ever traditional ensemble, through the same outlets at €52.50 plus €2.50 service charge and from Ticketmaster who apply their own service charge.

Tickets are also selling fast for both Paul Brady in The Knocknarea Arena Oct 25 th, €47 plus sc and John Paul White in Hawk’s Well Theatre Oct 25 th, €29.50 plus sc. Act quickly to secure your ticket and avoid disappointment.

More tantalisingly-tasty Sligo Live shows in the Hawk’s Well and in the Knocknarea Arena will be announced in the coming weeks and months.