Bending the Strings play 'Poems & promises' concert in Lanesboro, Friday 12 Nov. 2010

Thanks to Vinny Baker of Bending the Strings for this news:

Bending the Strings play a forty-minute set at the 'Poems & promises' concert in St Mary's parish hall in Lanesboro, Co. Longford, on this coming Friday (12 November). The concert is organised by the Lanesboro Heritage Committee and features well known acts from the traditional music scene: Noel Carberry, Brendan Doyle, Jimmy Flanagan, and Johnny Duffy, who have all played with international trad band Rig the Jig. Guest singers are Siobhan Casey and Willie Kelly.

Bending the Strings are the featured bluegrass act in this cultural concert of trad, roots, and bluegrass music, but this year's concert is taking a different format than in previous years, as the usual format was for all musicians to take the stage together and join in on each set; but this year, each group of musicians do their own sets and join together at the end for a Grand Finale jam session. The musicians taking part include pipers, banjoist, harpists, accordionists, keyboardists, fiddlers, and vocalists, and this night promises to be a fabulous night of music. Doors open at 7.45 and the concert starts at 8.30 p.m.

Bending the Strings will play their most popular set list on the night, which will feature most of the tracks from their All keyed up album, plus all the bluegrass instrumentals which are most requested. The band hope you will be able to make it to this wonderful night of roots, trad, and bluegrass music at the 'Poems & promises' concert in Lanesboro, Co. Longford, this coming Friday, 12 November 2010.