Award-winning Amelia Curran returns to Monroe’s

Award-winning Canadian songwriter Amelia Curran returns to Monroe’s Live on Saturday, February 14, showcasing songs from her seven albums, including her most recent, They Promised You Mercy.

Curran, who released her first album in 2000, reached new audiences in 2010 when her album Hunter, Hunter received a Juno award [Canada’s equivalent to the Grammys] for Roots and Traditional Album of The Year.

“That was delightful and it was so lovely,” recalled the native of St John’s, Newfoundland. “I had never won an award before, and it meant a lot to me.”

Amelia follow-up album the 2012 Spectators, a meditation on frailty, restlessness and time, was also nominated for a Juno award. It didn’t win, but did receive rave reviews, and found its way on to many ‘Best Of’ lists across Canada in that year.

Her latest work, They Promised You Mercy, released last November, sees Amelia’s knife-sharp lyrics set to lush layers of music, the result of a collaboration between her and well-known Canadian producer Michael Phillip Wojewoda.

While music takes up most of her time at present, Amelia Curran is also a playwright and short story writer.

“I write a lot of poetry and stories that are slowly developing into other things. I’ve no particular goal for that work, but it’s something I can’t help doing. Songs are one medium of writing, and I love to write.”

Doors 9pm, admission €10/€8 online.