Posts by Niall Connolly
Thank you Bangor
Morning Ireland Tuesday morning, September 6th, 2016 Dublin airport- Belfast The sun rises over the eastern hills, casting an orange, then pink and purple hue on the blanket of clouds.…
Read MoreGuitar, suitcase, backpack? Tour Countdown
In Newark airport. Driving from Sunbury, PA back to Newark. Listened to the new Chris Michael album “Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando Scream Peace and Love into the Darkness” most…
Read MoreIt Says In The Papers – Tour Countdown
Take that Rupert Murdoch! Take that Tronald Dump! Take that Flinthart Glomgold!* Take that, Take That! My tour countdown continues. Ireland are you ready for a post Electric Picnic, Connolly…
Read MoreNew Song – Tour Countdown
On May 12th 2016 the grammy award winning singer Susan McKeown invited me to perform at Cooper Union, NYC. It was part of an event marking the 100th anniversary of the…
Read MoreTour Countdown : I probably shouldn’t eat that?
Tour Countdown Continues: Leaving Ithaca for East Durham, our friends drove with us as as far as the town of Caroline, where we went for a quick hike at Roy…
Read MoreTour Countdown: A Day in Ithaca
I just spent a beautiful day with some old friends at Treman State Park in Ithaca. If you are close, go. We went swimming in a watering hole that seemed…
Read MoreThank You For The Music – BCFF Review
Saturday morning, I woke up sweating and switched on the radio to the sound of the Mayor cautioning people to stay indoors till 9pm, Sunday. The heat advisory, collided precisely…
Read MoreBig City Folk Festival This Weekend
“All music is folk music; I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song,” – Louis Armstrong Twice as efficient as the Olympics and with only half the doping— Big…
Read MoreDream Away Lodge
“9 people killed in Munich. 80 people killed in Kabul…..” I cannot take listening to election talk for another a few months. July 22nd, 2pm ish I am sitting on…
Read MoreIceland, The Princess Bride, Bruce Lee & Mike Tyson
Monday June 27th, 2016 Running for the 2 train in Brooklyn today, I was stopped on the street by a group of about five, smiling, twenty something year old black…
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