LUKA BLOOM! - THURS 6th NOV (From Ireland via New York! Brother of Irish folk legend Christy Moore!) The Barn @ Square+Compass, Windmill Hill, Nr Ilminster, Somerset. TA19 9NX 01823 480467 Superb food from 7pm table booking essential. No Accom left but there’s camping or park your campervan in the field next to the venue - phone first for details and booking. Adv £15.00 Door £18.00 Venue doors 8pm Start 9pm SEATING CANNOT BE GUARANTEED - FIRST COME ETC... NO REFUNDS UNLESS SHOW CANCELLED. youtube/watch?v=N8It3VIZLnI TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FROM THE VENUE, COLLECT IN PERSON OR PHONE TO PAY BY CARD. Tickets also available online from or or at: Black Cat Records, Taunton. The summer of love in 1969 was the first time Luka Bloom (known then by his birth name Barry Moore) set to the stage to support his older brother and renowned Irish singer Christy Moore and since then he has been bringing his unique, passionate sound to indigenous and international audiences on stages from the United States to Australia, and through every venue imaginable in his native Ireland (in turf bogs, record stores, up on a bike and on protest sites) Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Holland playing atop mountains, cycling onto stage and even supporting His Holiness The Dalai Lama in 2011 in Australia, brought about by sharing a stage in his native Kildare with the Dalai Lama during his visit to Ireland. He moved from Ireland, first to Holland and then to Washington DC and New York City, USA and his song changed somewhat to a new sound for the Irish Emigrant as the sense of displacement in his lyrics mingled with a positive delight to be exploring the world outside the boundaries of Ireland. On his way to New York in 1987 he decided to embrace fully the change of leaving the home land and became officially for the first time Luka (from Suzanne Vega’s song of the same name) Bloom (Joyce’s great Dubliner from Ulysses). Bloom by name and bloom by nature, the music and the man blossomed in New York and songs of love and loss such as ‘Dreams in America’ and songs with humour and vivaciousness, with a nod to a new beginning such as ‘An Irish Man in China Town’ sprang forth and Luka Bloom was firmly on the scene. With a poet’s heart and a rockster’s soul, Luka Bloom is regarded as one of Ireland’s best-respected contemporary folk artists, having produced 20 albums since the 1970s, Bloom continues to push the boundaries of what his music can do, and the present Heartman Tour proves he is still making provocative, poetic music that delves deep into the intricacies of the human soul and pulls out the nuggets and puts them in a song. Like many who write songs, Luka’s orchestra of choice is the guitar, what makes his career a little different is his constant search for a new voice within the guitar. The guitar is the landscape on which the song is created, and he is forever probing that landscape for new inspiration. No effects, no gadgets, Time, effort and a whole lot of love bring forth new voicings within the instrument, and bit by bit, the songs come to life. And eventually they fly, bringing Luka with them to be heard in Byron Bay, San Francisco, Hamburg, and now The Barn.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:32:50 +0000
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