Re opening the Heksenketel gig

Wanneer: zaterdag 13 februari
Het optreden van Daithi Rua begint om 21.30 uur.
Waar: De Heksenketel, Pelgrimstraat 22, Antwerp

Daithi Rua (Irish for red David) is an Irish musician and songwriter from Shannonbridge in county Offaly. Brought up by musical parents, he was given the songs of the Dubliners and Planxty to eat and drink and later digested artists like the Furey's, Christy Moore, Moving Hearts in the 1980's.

He never seemed to get full and apart from singing in his parents’ folk band as a teenager, Daithi took part in several musical productions both in school and in local musical societies.

No stranger to treading the boards, he went on to win several talent shows and busking competitions. By the time he left school he had been making a living from music and had started writing songs.

Now based in Belgium, Daithi has been playing music for the best part of fifteen years and his tours take him all over mainland Europe, the U.K., Ireland, Scandinavia and the Middle East both as a solo performer and with different musical outfits such as COMAS, Helen Flaherty and Aidan Burke.

Daithi has appeared on local and national Tv and radio and his songs have been recorded and considered by many well established artists and he has been acknowledged by his contemporaries to be an artist of great future potential. His influences today include artists such as Luka bloom, Nanci Griffith, Andy Irvine, Paul Brady, Mick Hanley and Tom Russell to name a few.