32 Chris Difford Win Two Tickets to


of Squeeze Saturday 10 March at


Ballymaloe Grainstore Shanagarry, Co. Cork


info@eastcorkjournal.ie


Thursday, 22nd


February 2018


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Closing date Thursday 8th March at 12 noon. All entries to be sent to , 88 Main Street, Midleton


Win Two Tickets to


The Voice Squad


Sunday 4 March at


Ballymaloe Grainstore Shanagarry, Co. Cork


THE VOICE SQUAD The Voice Squad is an


Irish vocal trio consisting of tenors Phil Callery and Fran McPhail and bass Gerry Cullen, who togeth- er have a unique style of a cappella singing. They will bring their brand of close harmonic singing to Bally- maloe Grainstore on Sun- day 4 March. Listeners will hear ech-


Name: Address: Phone Number: Email:


Closing date Thursday 1st March at 12 noon. All entries to be sent to , 88 Main Street, Midleton


oes of British groups such as The Watersons and The Copper Family in their unaccompanied harmony style. The Voice Squad’s approach is highly unusual in the Irish tradition, and the effect is spectacularly lovely. Callery, whose voice is clean and strong, sings lead most of the time, while McPhail sings high harmo- nies in his warm, muted high tenor, and Cullen


Ballymaloe Grainstore, Sunday 4 March complex, yet


glides and rumbles below. The group’s arrangements are


utterly


and effortlessly beautiful. Anyone who loves the tra- ditional music of Ireland and Britain will fall instant- ly in love with their sound. As a group they are


much in demand as studio session musicians adding their vocal textures and melodic colour to the re- cordings of artists includ- ing The Chieftains, Christy Hennessy, Elvis Costello, Jimmy McCarthy, Sinead O’Connor, Liam O’Flynn and Dolores Keane. They are


equally in


demand as ers.


Sessions at live perform-


‘We did the Steeple the Unitarian


Church in Stephen’s Green in Dublin recently and it was sold out,’ says McPhail.


Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email: info@eastcorkjournal.ie • Web: www.eastcorkjournal.ie


‘What we do is what it says on the tin. That’s why peo- ple keep coming back.’ ‘The Voice Squad’s har-


monies eking subtleties in one another’s inter preta- tions that would most likely be lost in a solo per- f or mance. They are, unquestiona- bly, a force to be


with.’


reckoned - Siob-


han Long, The


Irish


Times The


Tickets for Voice


Squad in Ballymaloe House Sunday


on 4


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March are €30. They can be booked online at www. ballymaloegrainstore. com or by phone on 021 475 7200. Pre-show buf-


fet dinner in Ballymaloe House is available at 6pm for €50 per person. Please ring Ballymaloe House on 021 465 2531 to reserve.


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