Asleep at the Reel to perform at the Gympie RSL this weekend

Asleep at the Reel evokes the sound of the lively Irish pub, of flying fiddles and rich voices in harmony around an open fire.

Asleep at the Reel will perform in Gympie this Saturday night, July 17.

Asleep at the Reel, led by Mark Cryle (Spot the Dog, Murphy’s Pigs) and featuring Tamworth Golden Fiddle award winner Hugh Curtis will deliver a mix of Irish favourites plus their own acclaimed original songs this Saturday night, July 17, in Gympie.

Asleep at the Reel evokes the sound of the lively Irish pub, of flying fiddles and rich voices in harmony around an open fire.

Their songs are stories – some of them hundreds of years old – wrapped up in music. Their rollicking jigs and reels will keep your feet tapping. The Irish call it the craic. It’s a word that means music and fun and, typically, quite a lot of the demon drink all bound up together.

This is not a musical tradition which is fixed in time or place. It shifts and evolves as it travels around the globe.

Asleep at the Reel join the dots between Celtic music and contemporary Australian song, courtesy of nationally-acclaimed songwriter Mark Cryle.

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Asleep at the Reel are not Irish – nor do they pretend to be. They are Australian yet, like so many Australians, Celtic music is in their DNA. They take this Celtic blend from its roots in the peat-smoked pubs of Ireland and Scotland, from the kitchen, the hearth, the veranda and the shearing shed all the way to the stage. There they throw in a little backbeat just for the fun of it.

The band will feature a mix of songs – Irish and folky favourites plus originals from their debut cd The Emerald Dream as well as from Cryle’s acclaimed cd Sideshow Alley.