Thursday 18 May: PORTSTEWART, Flowerfield Arts Centre (Matt McGinn and John McCullough)
Saturday 27 May: BALLYMENA, The Braid, Real Music Club (Kevin Doherty & Bob Spiers)
Saturday 3 June: DUNGANNON, The Square Box, Ranfurly House
Saturday 10 June: DOWNPATRICK, Down Arts Centre
Friday 16 June: BELLAGHY, Seamus Heaney Homeplace (Matt McGinn & Brendan Murphy)
Belfast-based songwriter Anthony Toner celebrates the release of his seventh album with a very special concert at the Lyric Theatre followed by an extensive tour across Northern Ireland.
This new collection, Ink, finds him in top form on a series of stripped back, acoustic-based songs dealing with the big themes of love, loss and happiness – the lyrics also cover subjects as diverse as politicians, 70s television, loaded guns and Alzheimer’s Disease.
The album started life as basic guitar tracks recorded by Anthony at his home, with subsequent overdubs from John McCullough at The Piano Shack. The drums, vocals and bass were added at No Sweat Studios in Coleraine, where long-time collaborator Clive Culbertson produced, mixed and mastered the album.
It’s been almost a decade since Anthony sprang onto the Northern Ireland music scene with his much-loved song Sailortown, and since then he has continued to move forward, playing live constantly and releasing a string of albums packed with radio-friendly, insightful songs such as East of Louise, Well Well Well, The Road to Fivemiletown, The Duke of Oklahoma and many more.
Anthony supports this release with a string of live performances at arts centres and theatres across Northern Ireland, mostly solo shows, but also appearing alongside artists including Ciaran Lavery, Eilidh Patterson, John McCullough, Matt McGinn and Brendan Murphy.
As always, the performances will feature Anthony’s much-admired fingerstyle guitar work and the between-song banter that has become such a strong part of his live shows.
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