Irishman Ryan Sheridan was a teenage dancer in ‘Riverdance’, spent two years acting in the USA and then formed a Rockband in Glasgow. He was ‘discovered’ busking with a cajon playing friend in London, and now here he is this evening in Germany. The Harmonie Bonn to be exact. 3songs caught the show by a man whose biggest hit is a song called ‘Home’ but who seems to be at home all over the World.
Now don’t say you have better things to do than listen to this beautiful voice at the Harmonie on Friday. Layla Zoe and band (with superb guitarist Bonn’s own Jan Laacks)
Recommended listening to end a hard week’s work!
Bonn Folk Club number 73 was themed ‘Old Favourites’ which made Tom Kannmacher the ideal special guest for the evening. Not because of Tom himself of course, who at the mention of musical instruments immediately has the enthusiasm of a teenager, but because of his partner for the evening a 1905 German Lute. It was an evening that dipped it’s feet into oldies from Folk, Pop and Bluegrass so take a walk with me on the vintage side…
Tommorrow’s (9 Oct) guest at the Harmonie in Bonn is Irish troubador Ryan Sheridan
Here a foretaste…
It’s a tiny ballroom venue. It’s hot, it’s sweaty, it’s intimate, it’s fun – and it’s 1983. That was the last time I saw Robert Cray live on a stage. Portsmouth England, with Scottish legends Blues n Trouble supporting. Cray was only into the eighth of his currently forty years of touring then. At Cologne’s Tanzbrunnen Theatre, thirty three years later, would the fire still burn?
I know it’s only just October in 2016 and wishing time away is a sin but…
Make your diaries free for 17 March 2017 when The Harmonie in Bonn has Laurence Jones and King King as a double bill not to be missed by Blues, Rock, guitar and generally ALL lovers of great live music.
Many thanks to Ryan McGarvey for taking time after his sensational concert at Bonn Harmonie to answer a few questions at very short notice (he agreed, I had five minutes to assemble my thoughts on the back of a 3songs visiting card, and here we are…) Fender or Gibson? Big venues or small? who was behind the foot-pedal wizardry of Purple Haze? and the secrets of that Toggle Switch solo…
