Thanks to the good folks behind the Rhythm & Roots Festival, we’re giving away two tickets to the Canadian Night Special taking place in Langton’s on John Street on Friday, May 2nd. Featuring The Tom Fun Orchestra and Fred Eaglesmith, the gig kicks off at 10pm and tickets are priced at €20 each. But, you can bag yourself two tickets by doing the following.
Simply email info@kilkennymusic.com with your name, email address and contact phone number mentioning the line (in the body or subject) “I want tickets for Langtons Canadian Night Special!”. We’ll alert the winner on the morning of Wednesday April 30th.
About the acts…
The Toronto Star declares Eaglesmith as an artist who is “without doubt, relentlessly true to his craft, to his world view, and to his fans.” With 16 independent albums to his credit, Eaglesmith has won a Juno Award - the equivalent of a Grammy in his native Canada - for Best Roots and Traditional Album - Solo and the Canadian Independent Music Award. He is the subject of not one but two tribute albums of Eaglesmith’s work that have been recorded, and his devoted coterie of fans, known as “Fredheads,” follow him from show to show. In addition to “Thinkin’ ‘Bout You” in Broken Bridges, his songs have also been used in films by noted director Martin Scorsese and actor James Caan.
The Tom Fun Orchestra is a nine-piece cluster-rock ensemble from Cape Breton Island featuring an ambitious mix of electric and acoustic instruments and enough skilled musicians on stage to intimidate even the largest crowds.”My live artist pick of the weekend was undoubtably Cape Breton’s rolling party known as the Tom Fun Orchestra. This ten-piece ball of energy put on an unbelievable set of pure joy. You should not miss them.”- CBC Radio 3 , Canada.
