Eleanor McEvoy

Eleanor McEvoy continues her Naked... Live tour, which will take her to Ireland, Spain, Germany, Australia Scotland with more territories to be added in the UK and elsewhere in 2017.

 

Naked Music is Eleanor’s new album, her music played in solitude in a beautiful farm recording studio in Norfolk, England. The recordings became a collaboration with famed British artist Chris Gollon. The Purchase of a Chris Gollon, a meeting and conversations led to the Title Naked Music. With this focus, 4 canvasses were painted for the album album art work, then the tour de force Naked Music The Exhibition in Gallery Different in Trendy Fitzrovia London, the opening night, a special concert by Eleanor playing Naked…Live, surrounded by 24 paintings inspired by the songs and titles of the album.

 

Naked... Live sees this solitary exploration of the best of her catalogue in the simple engaging starkness of her own performance. 

 

She walks in a single pool of light the stage set is with her electric guitar, acoustic guitar, violin, piano and a small amp. What follows, enthralled houses across Britain. Referred to by a critic as "musical stand-up” The previous ALONE show entranced audiences with her singing, talking, anecdotes and playing, using her own songs and insightful interpretations of other writers (Chuck Berry, Georges Moustaki, Brian Wilson...) In Canberra last time out, the response to her song 'Deliver Me' was so vocal the SBS1 TV news crew covering the festival demanded an interview and a song on prime time news the next day.

 

Eleanor’s history is well documented at this point, a difficult childhood in the emerging dreary 1960s Dublin. The light at the end of the tunnel was the music brought to her and played by her elder siblings. So by the age of 14, she was winning violin competitions (the Oireachtas), playing in youth orchestras, and in folk groups. Sufficient musical acumen and sufficient grades, earned her a place in Trinity College Dublin’s music degree course. From there she went on to a parallel career of playing in Ireland’s Symphony Orchestra and being a band and session musician for Greats including Phil Coulter and Mary Black, eventually the need to do her own music won out and she was propelled into orbit by the success of Woman’s Heart and a US record deal. This trajectory continues to this day with the wonderful musical intimacy of her show Naked… Live, featuring her own music   as well as co-writes with the likes of Lloyd Cole and Rodney Crowell.