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Bróna McVittie - The Woman in the Moon
Bróna McVittie album tour Oct/Nov 2022 - The Woman in the Moon
The Woman in the Moon is the new album from Northern-Irish singer/songwriter Bróna McVittie, due for release on 2nd October 2022. This release follows her acclaimed albums We Are the Wildlife (January 2018) and The Man in the Mountain (September 2020). Bróna has steadily built a reputation for her eerie, Celtic lore-inspired electronic folk and with The Woman in the Moon she adds more than a touch of Alice Coltrane with a mix of harp, transcendental melodies and electronics.
She will be on tour in the UK in October and November 2022, performing solo (vocals, harp, guitar and electronics) and with guest musicians Brazilian drummer Marius Rodrigues (who recently recorded with Robert Wyatt) and jazz double bassist Oli Hayhurst (who performs with Pharaoh Sanders). (See below for the full tour schedule).
In 2019 Bróna performed with her trio at Dublin’s National Concert Hall, the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, London’s Kings Place, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Celtic Connections, TradFest and WOMAD. Bróna’s second album The Man in the Mountain was ranked 4th in The Guardian’s 10 Best Folk Albums of 2020 and received four-star reviews from Mojo, and the national and local press. Her tracks have been broadcast on BBC Radio 2 Folk Show, BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6Music by Mark Radcliffe, Iggy Pop, Gideon Coe, Cerys Matthews and Lauren Laverne; on regional BBC channels by Lynette Fay, Eve Blair and more; in Ireland on RTÉ radio by John Kelly, Ellen Crannitch and Cian Ó Cíobháin as well as in Italy, The Netherlands, the USA, Canada and Australia.
“You’re put in the place of a bird navigating wide open landscapes, absorbing light, space and air. This is music that takes you on its wing, and gives you fresh visions”
★★★★ Jude Rogers, The Guardian
“McVittie takes her inspiration from W.B. Yeats’s idea of a kind of Celtic phantasmagoria which can be felt but remains essentially ineffable”
★★★★ Mike Barnes, MOJO
12 OCT - MANCHESTER The Peer Hat
Solo show with support from Danny Bradley
21 OCT - OXFORD The Jericho Tavern
With full band (Marius Rodrigues: drums; Oli Hayhurst: double bass) and support from Louisa Lyne Patterson and her quartet
23 OCT - BRIGHTON The Folklore Rooms
Solo with support from Chalk Horse
Album recording funded with support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
