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Sabrina Piggott – Sirius Arts Centre – Sat Frb 26th
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A Cobh native now resident in the Yorkshire Dales, Sabrina’s songs are full of a sense of open spaces and possibility; she has taken her rich traditional music background and fused it organically with an eclectic range of influences from Tricky to Kate Rusby, from Bjork to Kristen Hersh. Backed by gifted Leeds djembe player Mark Taylor, and the sympathetic cello of David Hornberger, she has crafted a sound which is uniquely her own.
Since leaving Cobh in the mid 1990’s to attend University in Leeds, she has quietly been crafting her unique style. Best known for her virtuoso Bodhran playing, and through her work as Chair of the Leeds-based Irish Arts Foundation, she has spent the last two years honing the material for her first album, and has been paying her dues gigging around the north of England, and recently did a mini-tour in and around New York.
Though music fans around Cork will know her as the niece of De Dannan’s Charlie Piggott, she has been determined to stand on her own merits and self-financed her debut so as to preserve her artistic independence. Not content just to develop her own work, she has also provided the musical accompaniment for acclaimed poet Siobhan MacMahon’s award-winning work The Mouth of the Cave, which featured this year at the Wicklow Arts Festival where her solo fringe gig was awarded the AOIFE Best Musical Individual award, given each year to the performer who, in the opinion of the panel, gave the best performance at any of AOIFE’s festivals in 2009.
She recorded her self-financed debut album, Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers, in a garden shed in Wakefield during August 2009 and launched it in her home town of Cobh, County Cork in October 2009 and has been busily promoting it in the UK, Ireland and the USA..
Reviews
AOIFE Award winner 2009
Awarded the Best Musical Individual award, given each year to the performer who, in the opinion of the panel, gave the best performance at any of AOIFE’s festivals in 2009. AOIFE is the all-island advocacy, support, resource and development network of festivals and events and the award adds to Sabrina’s growing reputation as a performer of genuine talent.
“Stunning folk…the best of Irish” – Leedsmusicforum.co.uk
“Musician Sabrina Piggott creates a passionate and provocative piece … where humour meets pathos, interweaving word, sound, music and drumming…” irisharts,org.uk
“a great modern Celtic sound” Acoustic Rotherham
“Sabrina Piggott had a lovely voice and excellent accompaniment from percussion and cello.” Lacey’s Films
“Beautiful self penned songs based very much in the Celtic tradition. Her quiet yet spell binding performance was quite stunning.” Rawmarsh Mashers
Read more:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=130697807 blogId=540335214#ixzz14SEguHUB
“This is the sound of the new music in exile. Don’t wait for it to come to you. Go seek it out.” Jimmy Andrex Red Shed Readings
Sabrina interviewed on Phoenix FM http://www.phoenixfm.co.uk/guests_podcasts.htm
Sabrina on Video http://www.nme.com/musicvideos/id/620843
Sabrina Piggott – Singer, Songwriter, Musician
tel 07707 116955
www.myspace.com/429515321
Email: sabrinapiggott@hotmail.com
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