Little John debuts new show at Tuam

Date Published: 11-Aug-2011

A NEW Little John Nee musical story, The Mother’s Arms Singing Lounge, is being staged at the Tuam Arts Festival on this Sunday, August 14.

It’s in collaboration with the Highly Strung Orchestra, featuring Jeremy Howard, Andrew Galvin and Órláith Gilcreest.

Little John Nee first drew attention to The Mother’s Arms Singing Lounge in his show, Dead Rooster Blues. The pub’s previous proprietor has recently gone to prison and his daughter Rose has returned from a failed marriage in the Florida swamps to run the place, but debt collectors are circling like vultures.

It’s been a long time since there was any singing here.

On a beautiful summers’ morning a vintage automobile struggles up the hill, driven by Taxi Mc Dermott, a founder member of The Caledonia Highly Strung Orchestra.

This new show, a mixture of music and storytelling is a comic musical helter-skelter ride through a surreal but frighteningly believable rural gothic landscape.

Jeremy Howard, an avid music performer and composer, completed his degree in Electro-acoustic Music Composition in Staffordshire, and masters in Film Composition at the Bournemouth Screen Academy.

He works as a film-maker and sound-track composer, working on various feature films and animations in Ireland, the UK and Taiwan.

Andrew Galvin is an actor, musician, playwright and cofounder of Donegal based Babalon Theatre Company. Andrew’s debut play, The Crowning Guest recently premièred at the Earagail Arts Festival.

Órláith Gilcreest is a singer and multi-instrumentalist she plays in a variety of music ensembles, playing jazz, rock, folk, blues, and classical she is currently studying at Trinity College Dublin.

Little John Nee is a writer, performer and storyteller. This year An Grianán Theatre published a trilogy of his plays. He will be travelling to the Milwaukee Irish Festival with his show, The Derry Boat directly after the Tuam Arts Festival.