On Wednesday 14 May at 8pm Lisburn Tale Tellers Season will close with a highlight event featuring Len Graham and Jack Lynch and on Friday 16 May at 1pm blues guitarist Roy Fulton will perform an acoustic set accompanied by Davy Neill on bass.
Len Graham is one of Ireland’s best known traditional singers with a recording history spanning over thirty years and twenty highly acclaimed albums to his credit. He has appeared on numerous Irish and International Folk, Literary and Storytelling Festivals, radio and television programmes. In 1992 he received the Seán O’Boyle Cultural Traditions Award in recognition of his work as a collector and singer. In 2002 he was awarded the Irish television TG4 National Music Award for ‘Traditional Singer of the Year.’ Storyteller and comic actor Jack Lynch is a founder member of Storytellers of Ireland and of the Dublin Yarnspinners. He has been a regular teller at local arts and storytelling festivals – Cultra, Omagh, Scéalta Shamhna, Slieve Bloom, Sperrins and Courtmacsherry. Further afield he has appeared at Alden Biesen in Belgium, Sidmouth Folk Festival, Newcastle Irish Festival and the Illinois Storytelling and Education Programme and has twice been the featured Irish storyteller at the Cape Clear Festival and at Gimistory in the Cayman Isles. Jack has wide experience in the classics (Shakespeare, Ibsen and Synge) and has toured throughout Ireland, in England and in Poland. He has much experience in television and his film credits include “The Snapper”, “The Van” “Angela’s Ashes”, “When Brendan Met Trudy”, ”Bloom” and “The Drip”, co-written with director Trish MacAdam.
Originally from Lisburn City, guitarist Roy Fulton has been described by the music media as a blues guitarist virtuoso. In 2007 he appeared at the London Guitar Show, brought out an acoustic guitar teaching (double) DVD, was featured in the UK music magazine GEAR and was also featured in the US magazine Guitar Player. More recently Roy has been invited to play at the London International Music Show and appears in the new worldwide Cort Guitars 2008 catalogue as an endorsee. Accompanied by Davy Neill on bass, Roy will be playing an acoustic set made up of songs from artists such as Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and John Prime to name a few. This is a golden opportunity for fans of acoustic blues, roots americana and easy listening guitar to get close and enjoy the experience in relaxed and pleasant surroundings of Lisburn city library.
