David Muldrew Singer/Songwriter

Bio:

David is a singer/songwriter who has peddled his cast throughout Europe and America over the past years. He is the winner of the prestigious Ballyshannon Folk Festival songwriters award and has recently been honoured by receiving the Armagh Festival of Song Award for the keeping of the tradition. THE LONG AWAITED CD "THE SOUTHERN CROSS"FEATURING JOINTLY MYSELF AND WRITER,UILLEANN PIPER AND WHISTLE PLAYER BRENDAN MONAGHAN WAS RELEASED TO GREAT ACCLAIM AT THE FIDDLERS GREEN FESTIVAL ON THE 21ST JULY 2009 AND WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM MY WEBSITE AT www.davidmuldrew.com and at www.muldrewmonaghan.weebly.com. JUST LEAVE DETAILS AND WE WILL CONTACT YOU... David has appeared in many different bands and festivals and recently had the opportunity to hear one of his songs Path to Peace being performed with a 200 piece orchestra and 500 school children at the magnificent Waterfront Hall in Belfast.. David has also played in the Middle east at the Dubai Festival, Singapore, Australia and will be touring in Middle East in June 2009, October 2009 in Norway and hopefully if all goes to plan in Canada and the USA in 2009. He has had some of his works signed to Warner-Chappell publishing and Aoife ni Fearraigh has recently recorded Long hard Night on her latest CD. David has also been working on a new musical which he has written along with Brendan Monaghan, and Mark Wilson called the Planter and the Gael, which should be on the shelves in November. www.theplanterandthegael.info .www.fivefmdj.com www.linenmusic.info.. David is also the producer and presenter of a very popular radio programme called GAELFORCE which is broadcast on FIVEFM in Newry Northern Ireland. It is a specialist show featuring singer/songwriters in the folk genre and also features music from the genre of Celtic traditonal...The show is broadcast on Sunday's and is streamed on broadband for foreign listeners and has contributors from the USA Canada Denmark Norway Australia and South Africa who regularly access it. Summer 2009 is shaped up quite nicely with a trip to Saudi Arabia in early June, appearing with Malachi Cush at the Celtic Fusion Festival, Fiddlers Green Festiva with Brendan Monaghan l in July and a trip to Norway in August with Crooked Jack Ireland..

Member Since:

August 26, 2008

Members:

Am working with the Ulster Scots Irish Scottish band Bernagh..., Crooked Jack... Ireland trad Irish band... , Blackthorn folk rock Belfast band,... Malachi Cush and various other musicans in the trad, singer/songwriter scene when the opportunity comes around.

Influences:

I have had a great many influences on my music and not just from the folk world. I love Thin Lizzy and currently like the Artic Monkeys in the indie and rock scene and really like the writing of James Taylor, Stan Rogers and a fairly unknown but great writer called the Montana Tunesmith. My family are very musical and my grandmother was an opera singer and my mother spent a lot of her life on the stage. Other influences are people like the Sands Family from my local area, the great songwriters and singers Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, Tim O'Brien and songs of the old tradition passed on from generation to generation.. Currently I have been very interested in the writings of Irish songstress aila Patterson and the current music of Scottish group Brebach, so all in all it is a pretty mixed bag

Sounds Like:

I have been told that I sound like myself and a few others thrown into the mix so I would be more than happy to get your opinions as to how I sound and who I resemble.............in the nicest ways i hope!!!

Record Label:

some tracks signed to Warner-Chappell publishing