SHOWS FOR THE PARTING GLASS an Irish Journey

[thebraff (Braffy)]

www.irishaustraliantheatrecompany.com/

Damien Leith takes you on a journey to Ireland in his acclaimed theatrical and Irish musical production with the classics.

08 May Milton Theatre NSW

09 May Illawarra Performing Arts Centre NSW

14 May Gladstone Entertainment Centre, QLD

15 May Brolga Theatre, Maryborough QLD

16 May QPAC, Brisbane QLD

23 May Hydro Majestic, Blue Mountains NSW. Now on 12 th September

04 Jun Griffith Regional Theatre, NSW

05 Jun Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre, NSW

06 Jun Albury Entertainment Centre NSW

07 Jun National Celtic Festival, Port Arlington VIC ( near Geelong)

08 Jun National Celtic Festival, Port Arlington, VIC (near Geelong)

11 Jun Hayes Theatre, Sydney NSW

12 Jun Hayes Theatre, Sydney NSW

13 Jun Canterbury Leagues Club, NSW

14 Jun Hayes Theatre, Sydney NSW

19 Jun Evan Theatre, Penrith NSW

20 Jun Dee Why RSL, NSW

26 Jun Glasshouse, Port Macquarie NSW

27 Jun Lizotte's Newcastle NSW

04 Jul Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club, NSW

10 Jul The Palms at Crown, Melbourne VIC

11 Jul La Trobe Performing Arts, Traralgon VIC

18 Jul Street Theatre, Canberra ACT

25 Jul Mingara Recreation Club, NSW

30 Jul Wesley Performing Arts Centre, Horsham VIC

31 Jul GPAC, Geelong VIC

01 Aug Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre, VIC

14 Aug Wrest Point Entertainment Cente, Hobart TAS

15 Aug Launceston Country Club, TAS

16 Aug Burnie Arts & Function Centre, TAS

28 Aug Souths Juniors, Sydney NSW

29 Aug Wenty Leagues, Wentworthville NSW

12 Sep Hydro Majestic, Blue Mountains NSW

19 Sep The Jetty Theatre, Coffs Harbour NSW

08 Oct The Astor Theatre, Perth. WA

24 Oct Castle Hill RSL, Sydney NSW

09 Oct The Gov, Hindmarsh, Adelaide SA

27 Nov The Brass Monkey, Cronulla NSW

28 Nov the Central Hotel, Shellharbour NSW

[thebraff (Braffy)]

Not long for the Milton Theatre show

[plugger]

Thanks Braffy, great to see so many shows on the go, hopefully giving people the opportunity to go.

[thebraff (Braffy)]

Queensland - your turn this week

[zeeta]

It sounds like people are absolutely loving The Parting Glass shows, He's so talented.

[plugger]

I am hearing the same Zeeta. Yes he is so talented. I am looking forward to taking a couple of my girlfriends who have never seen him before. I actually am feeling really excited...I actually saw a poster up advertising it here...which is fantastic! And no I didn't steal the poster, but took a photo.

[thebraff (Braffy)]

Shows in Wagga Wagga and Albury this weekend.

Then the National Celtic Festival on the 7th and 8th at Portarlington in Victoria near Geelong


Are you ready Plugz and co?




5, 6, 7 and 8 June

[plugger]

Still in a spin this morning Braffy! The show and night was just fabulous I will do a little thread on it and hopefully have some photos to come through that others took to share.

When is your next show Braffy and Dawn ?

[zeeta]

I can't wait to read your report plugger, the comments on Facebook about his Parting Glass Show have been brilliant but not long enough.

[thebraff (Braffy)]

Last weekend Damien performed at Griffith, Wagga Wagga and Albury. Then he went to Portarlington in Victoria for the National Celtic Festival for the final 2 days of the long weekend.

Here is what someone that attended Portarlington wrote:

sbalding67.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/who-would-have-thought/

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?

Something surprising happened at the National Celtic Festival yesterday and I am so very fortunate to have been one of the people who witnessed it.

Every year there is a Festival highlight. That one performer, that one band, that one ‘thing’ that stays in the minds of festival-goers for years. For many, Claymore is the annual highlight. (Deservedly so) A few years back it was Gaelic Storm from the USA. Last year, for me, it was Sasta from Brisbane, the year before it was Taliska. Being able to give the late Jimmy Moore from Claddagh a hug only a few months before he lost his battle with cancer is a Festival memory I will treasure.

I would never, in my wildest dreams, have imagined that the little Irishman who won Australian Idol in 2006 and sort of disappeared off the music charts a couple of years after that would be the performer to give the 2015 National Celtic Festival a performance so perfect, so magical and so vocally sublime that I am compelled to write about it today.

And to be brutally honest, words would be inadequate to describe the power of what Damien Leith achieved yesterday. Parks Hall was filled to capacity, as it usually is, but 80 percent of the audience had no real idea who Damien Leith was. Until yesterday, I had completely underestimated what Damien Leith was capable of.

Yesterday, the capacity crowd in Parks Hall, Portarlington, were taken on a journey. This was a performance piece. A combination of story and song that was completely unexpected and completely mesmerising. As Damien wove his tale the audience was silent. The last time I felt such silence was at the Anzac Day dawn service. Everyone, infant and adult alike, knew in their bones that reverence was required.

The tale told was captivating. When we expected the narrative to take us down one path Damien took us down another. We journeyed through laughter and tears, life and death. I witnessed grown men and women so moved by the story they cried.

But the singing………….

Damien Leith’s voice was sublime yesterday. When the point in the storytelling called for song, Damien sang like an angel. I can’t believe I just wrote that, but it’s true. He sang like an angel. His voice was pure, it was breathtaking, it was magical. Irish tunes that I have heard sung a hundred different ways, by a hundred different performers over the thirteen years I have been going to Portarlington were transformed into something new and divine. I was only one of many who could but close our eyes and allow our ears to devour the notes.

We listened, we sang along with him, we silently mouthed the well-known words so as not to break the spell with our own voices.

And when it was over we rose as one to acknowledge a performance that was truly amazing. Bravo!!

[plugger]

Zeeta it's just a fabulous show...hope you get to go.

Braffy what a review...it is brilliant!

[thebraff (Braffy)]

PENRITH AND DEE WHY - ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?



Penrith tonight 19th

Dee Why tomorrow night 20th

[dmac]

whoot whoot great we have members going

[plugger]

Great that some members are going Dawn.

Isn't the review fantastic....it is also great that it is being tapped into as well. Check out Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre on FB ...they are using it too! Yeah ...hope it go's viral

[thebraff (Braffy)]

Port Macquarie on Friday night 26th June and Lizottes Newcastle on Saturday 27th June.