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Monday Club Events in conjunction with The Harrison Hotel [https://www.chambersofdistinction.com/] presents : A Rare Monday Night Encounter: Blue Room Sessions:…
Monday Club Events in conjunction with The Harrison Hotel [https://www.chambersofdistinction.com/] presents :
A Rare Monday Night Encounter: Blue Room Sessions: Ronnie Greer and Ken Haddock, Live at The HarrisonTwo remarkable Belfast musicians. An intimate room. This is exactly what the Blue Room Sessions were created for.Details:Venue:The Harrison Chambers of Distinction, Belfast
Date: Monday 5th October - Doors: 8 PM, Music: 8.30 PM - 10.30 PM
Setting: Fully seated, intimate cabaret layout (Tables & Candlelight)
Capacity: Strictly limited to 30 seats. Early booking advised.RONNIE GREER - A Lifetime With The Blues .. and Jazz
One of the great figures of the Northern Irish blues scene,Ronnie Greer is a guitarist whose playing carries more than five decades of experience, influences and stories.Steeped in Chicago blues but with jazz running through his musical DNA, Ronnie is known for beautifully judged playing capable of being fiery and exhilarating one moment, subtle and soulful the next. Ronnie isn't simply a virtuoso guitarist. He's an old-school musician who understands feel, restraint and interaction.The Irish News: Over a remarkable career he has shared stages with some of the great names in blues, including Dr. John, Memphis Slim, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Lowell Fulson, while remaining firmly rooted in the Belfast music scene that shaped him.For the Blue Room Sessions, Ronnie joinsKen Haddock for something rather more intimate: two hugely experienced Belfast musicians, two guitars, great songs, stories and the freedom to take the music wherever the evening leads.Ronnie's albums A Lifetime With The Blues (2013), The Jazz Project (2016), Blues Constellation: The Ronnie Greer Band & Friends Live (2020)
Recorded live at a sold-out concert in Lisburn in October 2019.KEN HADDOCK - One of Belfast's Great Musical Storytellers
Ken Haddock is one of the most distinctive voices on Belfasts live music scene a superb guitarist, gifted songwriter and wonderfully instinctive interpreter of a great song.With a voice that can move from a whisper to a roar, Ken brings together blues, roots, folk and classic songwriting with warmth, humour and an effortless connection with his audience. Ken has that rare ability to take a familiar song and make you hear it differently.Having shared stages with the likes of Nanci Griffith, Bruce Cockburn, Guy Clark andFoy Vance and after more than two decades presiding over his celebrated Sunday-night Supper Club at the Belfast Empire Ken is very much a musicians musician.For the Blue Room Sessions, he joins one of Irelands great blues guitarists,Ronnie Greer, for an intimate evening built around two exceptional musicians, great songs and the chemistry that happens when old friends make music together.Ken's albums Almost (2008), The Sweetest Hour (2013), One Night in Willowfield (2018)
One of Belfast's most distinctive singers, songwriters and interpreters of song.
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