Tracy Bruen

If you like your folk like Joni Mitchell and your pop like Kate Bush, multi instrumentalist and spellbinding vocalist, Tracy Bruen is your only woman. In 2017 Tracy released her debut album, Mirror, to critical acclaim (Galway Album of the Year, Galway Advertiser) and many songs received airplay on national and regional radio.

2018 saw her complete a hugely successful tour with her band in Ireland and Europe, headline a gig at the Galway International Arts Festival and play a storming set on the main stage of Body and Soul at Electric Picnic. 2019 brings with it an upcoming single relase and another Irish, UK and German tour. Tracy has played many major Irish festivals including Electric Picnic, Body and Soul, Sunflowerfest and The Galway International arts festival and has supported well known artists including John Smith, Lisa Hannigan and Mick Flannery. Tracy writes on guitar, piano and ukulele and is very much looking forward to sharing her ukulele songs with the audience at the festival this year.

"A spellbinding blend of indie, folk, prog, country, and roots topped off by her powerful, and varied, vocal abilities...her honesty and vulnerability create something quite moving" Kernan Andrews, The Galway Advertiser

"...a lovely sliver of pop" The Point of Everything Blog

“A voice of husky, whispery, and sky-reaching heights is unapologetically Kate Bush-like and the blend of hill-walking candle-lit voyaging and blues guitar make it both timeless and fitting with the current music trend.”

MARC GALLAGHER

Previously played at Ukulele Festival of Great Britain, Berlin Ukulele Festival and Munich Ukulele Festival.With three pop solo albums and hours of covers at his disposal, Marc prides himself on his versatility. Whether you want to dance on tables to pub-rock or laugh with nostalgic fondness over underrated hits of your childhood, Marc has something for everyone.

OPERA-LELE

The Award Winning Opera-Lele has rapidly established itself as one of the most innovative and exciting new acts in the world.

Opera-Lele is a crossover act specialising in singing music from Opera and Musical Theatre accompanied by the emotionally powerful yet understanding twang of the ukulele.

Having both trained as singers at the Royal College of Music and Goldsmiths College in London, George Bartle and Amanda Harkett have gone on individually to forge careers for themselves as entertainers of the highest calibre.

Since 2016 Opera-Lele has been counting the standing ovations at festivals, theatres and even castles across the UK and overseas.

NORIANA KENNEDY

Noriana is best known as a singer with band The Whileaways who were nominated for two RTE Folk awards last year. She has appeared several times on RTE's Late Late Show, and recorded four critically acclaimed folk and self penned albums to date. The Irish Times described her vocals as “a knockout: translucent and tenacious in equal measure”.

For the Galway Ukulele Festival Noriana will perform songs from her upcoming new ukulele album 'Swing n Turn'. Returning to the heart and start of her voice, Swing n Turn is a joyful songbook of folk, ragtime and country where her quirky ukulele banjo sends listeners to New Orleans, Appalachia, the deep south and back again. For this performance she is joined by her good friends Noelie McDonnell (Guitar) and Kelvin Busher (double bass).

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