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Ecstasy of The Soul…Siobhan O’Brien…Echoes of The Spirits of Ireland

A wonderful new discovery for us! Siobhan O’ Brien…her songs are full of depth with emotion, & beautiful soulful lyrics…Her voice has a rich tonal quality…that uniquely merges Sandy Denny and Joni Mitchell…but is all her own…her approach is refreshing, her choice of melody and chord structure have a complexity that separates her from a lot of todays singer songwriters…We can see her rising to the top” -The Young Brothers

 

 

“Ecstasy of The Soul; Most assuredly ‘Echoes of The Spirits of Ireland’ are found within the music of Siobhan O’Brien however to stop there is to never make it to your destination, home to the hearth of your heart and soul. Many write and sing of troubles, pain, Love Lost… Siobhan O’Brien is one of the extraordinary few that take it within, allowing it to go through the transformative process in her heart, her soul, to reintroduce it to her audience as a found beauty of life…Love” - Caroline Purr

 

“You know those periods in music history when music finds itself in ‘Stasis’; Citizen of ‘The State of Monochrome Gray’? History has proven repeatedly that it is exactly during these times that the Irish rise to the occasion, injecting the music scene with their gift, blasting the full spectrum of light directly into the heart of ‘The Music’. This IS…SIOBHAN O’BRIEN!” - Radio Icon Zach Martin

 

2011 Edwin McFee, 25 Aug 2011 Hotpress Magazine

Shades of Stevie Nicks on the Latest Offering from this Irish Songstress'

Songwriter Siobhan O’Brien’s self-titled album sees the tunesmith incorporate elements of folk, blues, country and soft rock into her own musical brew. For the most part, the genre gymnastics work really well on this charming LP. Bolstered by an impressive, quivering,Stevie Nicks-esque croon, the record is at its best when the singer really lets those melodies soar.

 

 The Irish World Magazine 4/10/2011 (staff reporter) Siobhán O'Brienfrom Limerick is flying over from Ireland toHEADLINEthe UK's only Bob Dylan Festival South Manchester . The event is just one of 120 events taking place duringLevenshulme Festival  which with over 45 venues staging events over 17 days is one of Europe's biggest community festivals. The two week festival runs from Friday 21 October to Sunday 6 November in South Manchester and is expected to attract over 10,000 visitors. Interview with Siobhán O'Brien Here

 


Celtic tigers By JIM SULLIVAN | March 12, 2008   Interview: the Chieftains at Symphony Hall — again

At 69, Paddy Moloney is still the world’s foremost uilleann-pipes player. He started playing at 10, around Dublin. In 1962 he co-founded the Chieftains, who would spread traditional Celtic music throughout the world. They’ve released 45 albums — the latest a two-CD compilation called The Essential Chieftains — and won six Grammys, an Emmy, and an Oscar, They’ve played with Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, the Corrs, Marianne Faithfull, Bonnie Raitt, Lyle Lovett, and the Boston Pops, to name a few. I caught up with Moloney — the remaining original — on the phone from Princeton, New Jersey, where the bandhad just played the 12th date of a 17-date US tourIt’s called “The Celtic-Scottish Connection Tour" We’re going down the road this time with the Scottish. Alyth McCormack comes from one of the islands off the West Coast of Scotland [Lewis] and sings in Scots Gaelic and English. She’s with two great musicians, Brian Mcalpine and Jonny Hardie, who play fiddle, accordion, guitar, and keyboards. They’re on stage from the word go, right at the top of the show. We have a guest singer nobody’s ever heard, Siobhán O’Brien. She has a magic voice.


Read more:   http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/57746-celtic-tigers/#ixzz1tMoax1sZ

BOSTON GLOBE INTERVIEW

 'Siobhán O'Brien Finds Her Own Voice with a New CD of Cover Songs'

By Linda Laban - Globe Correspondent / March 14, 2008

When Siobhán O'Brien heard that the Frames frontman Glen Hansard had won the Oscar last month for best song for "Falling Slowly," his duet with Markéta Irglová from the film "Once," she was so happy for him that she cried. Her father told her he had heard the company that makes the guitar Hansard favors had seen him playing his battered old instrument at the awards show and offered him a new one"I was going, 'Don't take the guitar, don't take the guitar,' " O'Brien recalls from her home in Limerick. She got her wish. Her father said Hansard had declined."That's Glen. I knew he wouldn't take the guitar," says the 38-year-old Irish singer-songwriter. O'Brien seems to need her heroes unsullied and intact; she isn't into the "glitz and the glamour" of success: "I just love doing this," she says of making music.O'Brien met Hansard 15 years ago when they bonded over a mutual love of Bob Dylan. Around the time, Dylan had invited O'Brien, a plucky girl with a strong, delicately tremulous voice, to sing his song "The Fox" onstage in Dublin with him. That song is just one of many covers - from Harry Chapin's "Shooting Star" to Brian Wilson's "In My Room" - that O'Brien recently recorded for her self-released covers record, "Songs I Grew Up To."   read more here of Interview

 

 

 

 March 2009

Interview with Siobhán O'BrFROOT
ROOT SALAD ~

A cross-section of featurettes:In this months issue

read about Irish squeezebox queen Sharon Shannon

and singer/songwriter Siobhán O'Brien