Peter Mulvey Returns to Ballymore

Mick Murphy's Bar Ballymore Eustace, Monday November 19 2007 8pm

Peter Mulvey began as a self-described "city kid" from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He played, wrote, and sang in bands while studying theatre at Marquette University. After graduating, he traveled to Ireland, where he learned the trade of busker on the streets of Dublin. Returning to the US a few years later, he settled in Boston, building an audience through street and subway performing, while also immersing himself in the thriving musical community.

Since his 2000 release 'The Trouble with Poets', Mulvey has found a home with the venerable indie label Signature Sounds Recordings. His most recent albums for the Massachusetts label were the 2006 release 'The Knuckleball Suite', the 2004 release 'Kitchen Radio', the 2003 collaborative 'Redbird' album (with label-mates Kris Delmhorst and Jeffrey Foucault), and his 2001 CD, 'Ten Thousand Mornings', an album of cover songs recorded entirely in the subways of Boston. MOJO described the album as 'simultaneously Mulvey's homage to his one-time training ground and a beautifully atmospheric record of gifted interpretations'.

Compared at times to Tom Waits and Randy Newman he is one of the finer exponents of the contemporary singer/songwriter genre. "Peter Mulvey is consistently the most original and dynamic of the US singer-songwriters to tour these shores… a phenomenal performer with huge energy, a quick fire, quirky take on life, and an extraordinary guitar style… a joy to see." -- so said the Irish Times.

Supporting on the night will be label mate Chris Pureka, 'a New England folkie with a parched, wounded voice and a mean way with an acoustic guitar, Pureka makes romantic depression seem, somehow, invigorating' according to the LA Daily News.

Opening the evening will be local singer/songwriter Roy Thompson.