Seán Tyrrell launches new album in Matt Molloy’s
Galway Bay near County Clare. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Moonlight On Galway Bay’, the much-anticipated album of big songs by Seán Tyrrell, is finally here, and the acclaimed folk singer will launch the album in Matt Molloy’s Pub in Westport this coming Thursday night, April 24, at 8pm The idea for the album was dreamt up back in the early ’90s by Davy Spillane, who suggested these classics tracks be covered. A chance request for ‘Galway Bay’ from an old lady at the Milwaukee festival many years later got Seán thinking. Once he read the lyrics, he was hooked. Humbled by what he had ignorantly regarded as songs for the corned-beef and cabbage circuit, he set to work learning them. He has taken old gems and lovingly breathed new life into them, presenting them in his own unmistakeable style. These songs include ‘Danny Boy’, ‘Galway Bay’, ‘I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen’, ‘The Black Velvet Band’, ‘Come Back Paddy Reilly’. No big symphonic manoeuvres here: For Seán it i...