13th United Airlines Belfast Nashville Songwriters® Festival 5 Days 30 Concerts 100 Songwriters PAUL BRADY, DARRELL SCOTT & DECLAN O’ROURKE Paul Brady In Conversation KIMMIE RHODES, Gareth Dunlop & Brian Houston KAZ HAWKINS, PETER MCVEIGH RYAN MCMULLAN, URSULA BURNS MAC MCANALLY, TRIONA tickets available from www.belfastnashville.com Tickets www.belfastnashville.comor visit belfast or Visit welcome Belfast Welcome centre Centre, 028 9 Donegall 9024 Sq6609 N, 028 9024 6609 2 Belfast Nashville Songwriters® the art of song writing™ PANARTS CELEBRATES TWENTY FIVE YEARS 1992–2017 • Panarts was founded in 1992 to encourage respect for diversity through the arts and international cultural exchange. Our first project was a six month inter-community musicians’ showcase which included three months performing across nine states in America. • Over the years we have created and delivered many diversity programmes for schools and communities using the arts including... Learn About Us – a six month community relations programme for primary schools Changing Lifestyles – An intergenerational project exploring the history of the Ards Peninsula Musical Frontiersmen – Songs and stories of Emigration to North America • Thirteen years ago we created the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival & Conference to celebrate the art of song writing and since then we have been successfully organising concerts, showcases and music industry meetings in both cities. “One of the highlights promises to be the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival, which is one of the best showcases for established and emerging talent in Northern Ireland” Belfast Telegraph Editorial “As a performer, some moments stand out amongst the others, gems that remain untarnished in any musician’s career. Those moments that will never be repeated, don't need to be bettered, and will last a lifetime. The Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival delivered this with every gig. The value of this experience as a writer is immeasurable” Stephen Macartney, Local songwriter, part of the Panarts showcase in Nashville A Panarts Event Clayton Hotel, Ormeau Ave Belfast 3 5 Days 30 Concerts 100 Songwriters Becoming a teenager is quite a milestone and this year, BelNash is thirteen years old! 2017 is also a landmark as Panarts celebrates 25 years of exploring diversity through the arts and organising international cultural exchanges. It all began in 1992 with an inter-community project with sixteen unemployed musicians. After three months training in Belfast, we toured for a further three months, across nine States in America, driving from Miami Florida to New York. In BelNash 2017, we’re celebrating the art of song writing, and the cultural links between Belfast and Nashville. This year is going to be very special with award winning artists and twenty five students and staff coming to our festival from Belmont University Nashville. Welcome to Belfast and we know you’re going to enjoy linking with the Panarts Young Songwriter of the Year finalists and the Forestside & Panarts Youth Project. Many local songwriters will benefit from our ‘In The Round’ concerts, changing their musical CV overnight. Each year, local artists make new connections through BelNash and friendships formed often last for years. Special thanks to Panarts Trustees and Volunteers, who help to make it all happen. To Nick Martin for his work on the website, Sean Harty & Paul Digby for design, Les Hume & the Dawsons team. To our Principal Sponsor, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Downtown Radio and to all our sponsors for their support. To Panarts Patrons, Paul Brady and Gallagher & Lyle and especially to the many songwriters who perform. Colin Magee, Panarts Director & Anne Coulter Festival Manager This year, we’re dedicating our festival to the memory of our good friend in music Bap Kennedy, who died in November 2016. Bap performed in several BelNash festivals, including our very first one in 2005. We’ll continue to remember him through his wonderful songs and our thoughts are with Brenda & family. Colin & Anne Tickets www.belfastnashville.com or Visit Belfast Welcome Centre, 9 Donegall Sq N, 028 9024 6609 4 Belfast Nashville Songwriters® the art of song writing™ WEDNESDAY 1 MARCH KIMMIE RHODES IN CONCERT SUPPORT SAM WICKENS A PANARTS & FRONTIER PROMOTIONS EVENT MC Downtown Radio’s Trevor Campbell “Kimmie has the voice of a beautiful and Emmylou Harris. A prolific artist, she child coming from an old soul. She has released sixteen solo CDs, written and touches us where the better angels produced three musical plays and has a of our nature dwell, and I believe catalogue of hundreds of songs. we need that now more than ever.” Kimmie will be joined on stage by multi- Emmylou Harris instrumentalist and producer Gabriel Rhodes. Singer-songwriter Kimmie Rhodes is a native www.kimmierhodes.com Texan who calls Austin home. Her multi- Olympic Concert Room, Clayton Hotel Belfast platinum selling songs have been recorded Early Show Doors 18.00 by such stellar acts as Willie Nelson, Wynonna Show 18.30 - 20.15 Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Amy Grant, Waylon Unreserved Seating Jennings, Peter Frampton, Mark Knopfler Tickets £16 Tickets www.belfastnashville.com or Visit Belfast Welcome Centre, 9 Donegall Sq N, 028 9024 6609 A Panarts Event Clayton Hotel, Ormeau Ave Belfast 5 FREE SONG SESSION - OPEN TO ALL 20.00-21.30 In Olympic Bar, Clayton Hotel Belfast. Bring Your Guitar & Join in. Two songs each Tickets www.belfastnashville.com or Visit Belfast Welcome Centre, 9 Donegall Sq N, 028 9024 6609 6 Belfast Nashville Songwriters® the art of song writing™ WEDNESDAY 1 MARCH NEIL FOSTER & BAND IN CONCERT An experienced session musician, and music therapist, Neil Foster writes enchanting songs celebrating life, love and wild open spaces. He has brought together a range of influences from Syrian Concert Room, Clayton Hotel Belfast folk, classical and world music to create his own Doors 20.00 Show 20.30 - 22.00 unique and expansive style with soaring, haunting Unreserved Seating melodies and beautiful lyrics to lift the soul. Tickets £5 WEDNESDAY 1 MARCH URSULA BURNS IN CONCERT SUPPORT PETER MCCAULEY The most dangerous harpist in the world is a songwriter from Belfast called Ursula Burns. Titanic Concert Room, Clayton Hotel Belfast She has won awards, toured the world, written Doors 20.00 Show 20.30 - 22.00 for circus and theatre, found a comedy career Unreserved Seating along the way and self released 5 solo albums! Tickets £6 Tickets www.belfastnashville.com or Visit Belfast Welcome Centre, 9 Donegall Sq N, 028 9024 6609 A Panarts Event Clayton Hotel, Ormeau Ave Belfast 7 WEDNESDAY 1 MARCH PAUL BRADY IN CONVERSATION WITH RALPH MCLEAN BBC RADIO ULSTER This is a unique one off special event; a reputation as a passionate and exciting Paul Brady in conversation with BBC artist and attracts a dedicated following Radio Ulster presenter Ralph McLean. worldwide. His songs have been recorded by Ralph will talk with Paul about his artists including Tina Turner, Eric Clapton and life in music and Paul will treat the Bonnie Raitt. To date, Paul continues to push the boundaries not only of his own talent but of audience to some of his best loved Irish contemporary music. songs. The session will be broadcast on the BBC at a later date. Olympic Concert Room, Clayton Hotel Belfast From his folk beginnings with The Johnstons and Planxty in the sixties and seventies, to an Doors 21.15 Show 21.40 – 23.10 exceptional solo career as a songwriter and Unreserved Seating performer, Paul Brady’s musical journey is Ticket £12 fascinating. Touring extensively he has forged Tickets www.belfastnashville.com or Visit Belfast Welcome Centre, 9 Donegall Sq N, 028 9024 6609 Tickets www.belfastnashville.com or Visit Belfast Welcome Centre, 9 Donegall Sq N, 028 9024 6609 8 Belfast Nashville Songwriters® the art of song writing™ Tickets www.belfastnashville.com or Visit Belfast Welcome Centre, 9 Donegall Sq N, 028 9024 6609 A Panarts Event Clayton Hotel, Ormeau Ave Belfast 9 THURSDAY 2 MARCH KIMMIE RHODES, GARETH DUNLOP, BRIAN HOUSTON IN THE ROUND CONCERT Texan songwriter Kimmie Rhodes, Brian Houston constantly shifts the mood with who has written and recorded with songs that ache and break and tell the story of great artists including Willie Nelson the human condition. and Emmylou Harris, shares the kimmierhodes.com stage with two of Belfast’s finest garethdunlop.com songwriters Gareth Dunlop and Brian Houston. brianhouston.com Olympic Concert Room, Clayton Hotel Belfast For many years Gareth Dunlop has been playing shows, writing and producing records and Early Show Doors 18.00 Show 18.30-20.00 over the past number of years his songs have Unreserved Seating featured in hit TV shows and films. Tickets £16 Tickets www.belfastnashville.com or Visit Belfast Welcome Centre, 9 Donegall Sq N, 028 9024 6609 10 Belfast Nashville Songwriters® the art of song writing™ Festival Food & Drinks Promo At Clayton Hotel Belfast Harp & Carlsberg Pints £3.50 Buckets of Beer, 5 bottles of Coors or Bud £15 Glass of Wine £5, Bottle £18 American Cocktail Special £6.50 ONLY SERVED IN OLYMPIC FESTIVAL BAR THURSDAY 2 MARCH FIONA MCCOURT & BAND IN CONCERT ‘Memories That Lie Ahead’ is the fionamccourt.co.uk latest EP from Irish artist Fiona Syrian Concert Room, Clayton Hotel Belfast McCourt recorded in Nashville, Doors 18.00 Show 18.30 – 20.00 Tennessee. Unreserved Seating Sharon Corr on the ‘Voice of Ireland’ described Tickets £5 Fiona’s tone as gorgeous, sweet and quirky, captured beautifully by the Nashville team. Tickets www.belfastnashville.com or Visit Belfast Welcome Centre, 9 Donegall Sq N, 028 9024 6609 A Panarts Event Clayton Hotel, Ormeau Ave Belfast 11 THURSDAY 2 MARCH SONGS FROM THE HEART EDELLE MCMAHON, BRIGID O’NEILL, CIARA O’NEILL, MANDY BINGHAM, JANET HENRY IN CONCERT This exceptional show brings together a superb line-up of five of Northern Ireland’s finest female singer-songwriters.