Friday 6th December | 7pm | £14 advance tickets
“This is magical, medicinal music that defies labels and borders” - Liverpool Echo
“Mikey Kenney is an artist for whom music is a calling, not a career choice…a singular and inspiring talent... unfettered by expectations of geography or genre, and a wanderer of worlds both seen and invisible, Kenney is an authentic free spirit” - fRoots
This guy is seriously unmissable - his bantering stories, his original and deeply touching voice + lyrics that undulates and yodels into sounding of a soprano (psychedelic) angel, multi instrumental excellence and shit hot fiddler! Truly joyous to witness. Excellent original songs interspersed with old old folk tunes he has gathered on his way!
WE CAN’T WAIT!!! He’s always saying ‘Folk music is dance music’ and that’s just how he makes it feel!
Mikey Kenney is a well-respected advocate for traditional music – a brilliant Liverpool-style fiddler drawing primarily on his native North West English and Irish heritage – but grounded in a present-day, urban reality.
He is a musician with wide-open horizons and insatiable curiosity for new possibilities. As evidenced on his latest album, The Reverie Road (Penny Fiddle Records), Kenney’s song-writing is both adventurous and earth-bound, with his high lonesome voice exploring sun-drenched Italian vistas, dream worlds and sounds of the city.
With a reputation for both making quality music and producing wondrous flourishes of creativity, Kenney is also a multi-talented and in-demand collaborator, including, formerly, with band Of Burns, and now, with his electric trio World Turned Upside Down, as well as playing with BBC 6 Music favourite, Alabaster DePlume and Italian singer-songwriter, Vinicio Capossela. Mikey is also Musical Director of the Lancashire Youth Folk Ensemble.