Trad with a multi-cultural twist from the magnificent Moxie

The magnificent Moxie will return to Monroe’s Live on Thursday, October 6.  A trad band on another level, this quintet formed in 2011 when brothers Ted and Jos Kelly met Cillian Doheny, Darren Roche and Paddy Hazelton at the Wille Clancy Music Festival in Milltown Malbay.

“We were playing sessions and stuff, and there was so much energy between us that we were going off into little areas of the night, playing when everyone else had left,” recalls Ted Kelly “Ten o’clock in the morning, and we just kept playing!”

A heady fusion of banjo, guitar, percussion, accordion and synthesisers gives Moxie their own sound. The synths may ruffle some feathers, but this is still Irish music, albeit with a modern twist.

“We’re playing music that represents multi-culturalism,” Ted says. “With the internet and YouTube, you can listen to any type of music in the world. We all live in Dublin, and there are so many different nationalities and cultures. We’re trying to create our music, the way we see it, through our eyes.”

Moxie are young, prodigiously gifted and are a real sensation live. This is energetic, uplifting music, with percussionist Paddy Hazelton responding to the fluid, melodic playing of the other lads, making Moxie a band that really deserve to be seen, and heard. Don’t miss this.

Tickets €12.50/€10