Concert News

Sharon Shannon – Tour

• 23rd Apr 2013

Sharon Shannon

15th November 2013
St Philips Church
Manchester

Sharon Shannon has music at her fingertips….literally! The accordionist from Ireland has achieved legendary status throughout the world and has made the much-maligned accordion ‘cool’ in her home country. Renowned for her collaborations, not just in Irish traditional music, but through all musical genres – Hip-Hop, Cajun, Country, Classical and Rap.
Sharon has recorded and toured with a who’s who of the Irish and Global Music Industry, including Bono, Adam Clayton, Sinead O’Connor, Jackson Browne, John Prine, Steve Earle, The Chieftains, The Waterboys, Willie Nelson, Nigel Kennedy, Alisson Krauss and Shane MacGowan – a list that is testament to Sharon’s versatility as well as talent.
She has entertained US President Bill Clinton and Irish Presidents Robinson and MacAleese and more recently President Obama during his Dublin visit .
Sharon records and produces her albums at her own studios ‘Poets Corner’ outside Galway in Ireland.
She has won several music awards and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement at the Irish Meteor Awards in 2009.
The genre-defying star has had multi-platinum album sales and has had several number one albums, singles and DVDs in her home country including Diamond Mountain Sessions, Live at Dolans and the phenomenal Steve Earle penned The Galway Girl with Irish rock singer Mundy which won a Meteor Award for most downloaded track two years in succession. The album of the same name was No.1 in the Irish charts for 4 weeks and has now achieved quadruple platinum status in Ireland!
Sharon Sharon continues to tour globally and this year she has been to Australia. New Zealand,Saudi Arabia, France,Spain and the US.
She is currently producing an album for the HIGH KINGS and also releases an album of original tunes written for and recorded with the RTE Concert Orchestra. This will be released in the UK by IRL in November. Sharon with a four piece line-up tours the UK in November and December.