CUA in Concert

Magical venue in historic Methodist Church

John Davidson, Shane Booth & Ros O’Meara bring together dynamic and contrasting instrumentation and vocal arrangements. Their debut album, “The Winter Tapes”, was released in 2012 as a duo. Since then, with the addition of 3rd member, multi-instumentalist and vocalist, Ros O’Meara, cua have been back recording and releasing new material – an expansive acoustic soundtrack blending guitars, fiddle, bazouki, percussion, 3 part harmony arrangements to create a neo classical folk styling they call Atlantean.

John Davidson plays fiddle, guitar, percussion and sings.

He started playing fiddle at age 6 and was brought up playing and listening to Scottish dance music, Classical and Country and Western. A heady mix indeed!

He spent two years in Nashville as a session musician playing and touring with bands such as “The Mavericks, Abel Kane, Footloose, The Fields,Chad Wilson, The Space Cowboys” to name a few and studied jazz at St Andrews University in Scotland {winning the Linda Trahan memorial award for best performance 2010}.

He is the co founder of Global Trad Underground  and plays with Adela and the Meanits, Shanakua, The Big Spoon, CUA...

He has written music for theatre,”King of the Fields” and “Kidnapped” by Mull Little Theatre, “Peter Pan” [Celtic Wah Wah ] By Theatre Babel, as well as for film, “The Forge” by Timahoe national school. He also has written a collection of traditional/classical peices for fiddle.

He teaches violin at the Laois School of Music and is founder and conductor of the Laois Orpheus orchestra. Mixing a multitude of styles that he has picked up over his travels and throwing in the odd wah wah pedal to creating a very individual style .He can sound Demonic or Angelic, Beethoven or Bartok, Skinner or Clemence!

Shane Booth plays guitar and sings.

Shane learned how to play guitar from his father, who was a music teacher, founder of a gospel / folk choir, and all round performer, actor, musician, singer and Laois county footballer! Growing up in the countryside in Laois long hours were spent playing and learning songs from all over the world.
At age 10, Shane took part in Cór na nÓg, the national children’s choir of Ireland, singing locally and also in the National Concert Hall.

Previous and current musical groups include Ceolaire, his folk-rock group (www.myspace.com/ceolaire), Global Trad Underground, Rhiannon & The Face Collectors, Judith Mok and her Hamsa Ensemble, Shanakua, Rain Dogs.

Shane has played at the Electric Picnic and the Indiependence music festivals in Ireland and has also travelled extensively, performing at the Bosphorus University in Istanbul as part of Yale week and having played in almost every country in Europe.
Shane has a strong inclination towards performance, busking around Dublin including a performance with Glen Hansard for TV3. He has collaborated with many artists including sharing a bill in Vicar St., Dublin with Chrsty Moore while also having pieces he has recorded and arranged for Judith Mok played on RTÉ radio, Ireland’s national broadcasting service.

Shane draws inspiration for his works from nature, the world around us and how we all interact and shape the world. Shane uses intricate finger-picking techniques, rich chord voicings and powerful rhythmic structures in his guitar playing and places a strong emphasis on symbolism in his lyrical content combined with a love of harmonies in his singing.

Ros O’Meara plays percussion, guitar, bazouki and sings.

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