Details
$22 general / $18 membersDate(s)
Wed, Jul 17, 2019
9:00pm
Contact
Box Office
888-616-0274
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday
In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days
Location
Irish Arts Center
553 W 51st Street
New York, New York 10019
Overview
Following sold-out shows on both sides of the Atlantic and appearances in music festivals across the globe, the beloved Dublin folk ensemble I Draw Slow returns to IAC for a one-night-only performance.
About the band
Featuring siblings Dave (vocals/guitar) and Louise Holden (vocals), Adrian Harton (violin), Colin Derham (clawhammer banjo), and Konrad Liddy (double bass), Dublin's I Draw Slow combines American folk and Irish storytelling traditions with close-harmony vocals, instrumentation, and subject matter. Their second album, Redhills, released in 2011, garnered attention internationally with the breakout track “Goldmine” featured on a Spotify playlist placement. The 2014 follow-up album, White Wave Chapel, reached No. 2 on Ireland’s iTunes chart, driven in part by the video for “Valentine,” which featured Game of Thrones actor Aiden Gillen. In April 2017, the band released their debut with Compass Records, Turn Your Face to the Sun, funded entirely through crowd-funding and tracked over one weekend in County Wicklow, Ireland, with engineer Brian Masterson (U2, Van Morrison).
Between albums, I Draw Slow has toured internationally in both solo shows and festivals, appearing at MerleFest, Pickathon, Wintergrass, RockyGrass, Grey Fox, Red Wing, Edmonton Folk Fest and High Sierra Music Festival. They’ve also appeared on many radio shows, including “Mountain Stage.”
Our Supporters
Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours International; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.
