Doorway opens a window into singer/songwriter’s life

Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell

Bríd Kenny’s music works best with an audience that is attentive and willing to listen – and fortunately for the Galway-based singer/songwriter, her voice casts the sort of ethereal frequency that makes a room fall silent as soon as she starts singing.

Her debut EP, Doorway, is bold and inventive by way of songwriting but holds true to the entrancing simplicity of her sound.

Bríd will launch her EP upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday. The three songs, including the title track, were recorded in the Black Gate with Liam King.  Though she usually performs solo, Bríd’s guitar and vocals are accompanied by cello and violin on the record. It’s testament to the thought and detail that’s gone into the release.

“I recorded it in The Black Gate with a guy called Liam – he was very sound,” she notes.

“I went to the Róisín Dubh Open Mic one of the Sundays and just happened to meet Dusty who is a cellist – his artist name is Fish in a Bird Cage. He’s playing the cello [on it] and then Ella Partington, who is unreal, is playing a bit of violin as well.

“The extra instruments give it a lot more depth and that’s what my vision was for it I suppose. You have the bones of the song with the guitar and vocals but you can kind of hear the other parts in it.

“I didn’t instruct them on what to play but I knew that there was potential in a couple of the songs to do more with them.”

Given Doorway is set to be Bríd’s first official release, it is perhaps fitting that the songs on the EP all seem to represent different periods of her life.

Her feelings may be mixed on elements of certain tracks but ultimately, whether older or more recent, the songs she has chosen all reveal different things about her style.

“One of them, Doorway, I wrote two years ago,” Bríd recalls.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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