"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Andy Irvine is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 8 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Andy Irvine is rated as a remarkable live performer, with impressive shows that are worth watching. Andy Irvine concert reviews describe live shows and performances as thunderous.
Andy Irvine (born Andrew Kennedy Irvine on 14 June 1942) is an Irish folk musician, singer-songwriter, and a founding member of a litany of renowned bands: Sweeney's Men; Planxty; Patrick Street; Mozaik; LAPD; and Usher's Island.
Has Performed With
Paul Brady
Critic Concert Reviews
Americana (UK)
May 9, 2024
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A glorious day had led onto a glorious evening in the company of a true legend of folk music – a teller of great tales, a sterling supporter of the rights of workers, and a man with more eight stringed instruments than you’d imagine, surrounded on stage by mandola, bouzouki, guitar-bodied bouzouki
A much delayed gig for Andy Irvine at the Junction 2, with an audience turn-out doubtless still affected by the ongoing pandemic if only with the attendant difficulties of a rearranged date.
Perched precariously on a collapsible stage barely large enough for his four bouzoukis, bag of harmonicas and himself Andy Irvine looks surprisingly comfortable. This in spite of the perils experienced by those sat in the front row of the unusually full side room of The Orange Tree pub where the Baldock and Letchworth
The ovation was thunderous and sustained. If this is how our heroes are received for the mere act of coming onstage, then how rapturous will the acclaim be when they’ve well and truly blown the dust off the seminal album we are here to commemorate?
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