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Pierce Turner returns to one of his favourite Towns, and a special intimate
venue. He comes armed with a new album "Love Can't Always Be Articulate"
which you have heard numerous times on RTE It would be wise to get hold of
your ticket now.
*Award winning Irish Musician Pierce Turner
*Also lives in Manhattan
* His last album “Songs For a Verry Small Orchestra” features a duet
with PhilipGlass whom he also performed in Carnegie Hall with in 2011
* Formerly solo Performer of the Year in Ireland
* Irish folk superstar Christy Moore has recorded his songs and went so
far as to write a dedication to him “I love the way Pierce Turner Sings” on
his box set with Warner Brothers Records
*Selected reviews:
“He has created what I confidently believe to be the finest body of work
in contemporary Irish music bar none” -Liam Fay -Sunday Times
”Soaring Classical melodies with a sense of freedom and joy” - Rolling
Stone magazine USA
“Clambering across the tables, little shimmies and screams of adoration,
Turner breaks down the barrier between audience and performer and really
gives himself in a way that makes him naked” - Irish Times
Rolling Stone review of Tibet house benefit 2010 with Philip Glass, Patty Smith, Iggy Pop and Regina Spektor-
"His duet with Philip Glass@ Carnegie Hall "Early in the night, composer Phillip Glass introduced
Irish singer Pierce Turner, who sat at the grand piano and performed the
soaring, Bowie-reminiscent “Yogi with a Broken Heart.” *
“A poet amongst songwriters’” -Elle Magazine USA
"Inventive songwriter Pierce Turner is one of the cities great Gems. He
fields requests, recounts amusing anecdotes and Encourages group
singalongs” -New York Magazine
“Easily one of Ireland’s most important rock artists of the last twenty
years”- The Irish Times
“Quirky lyrical images and a whimsicality one usually associates with
Ray Davies” - Stephen Holden - The New York Times
