Famed Irish Band to Play at Fine Arts Center
The Paul Brock Band will give a guest artist recital in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. The band will perform Irish music, song, and dance in a concert sponsored by the Department of Music at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18. The concert is free and open to the public.
Button accordion and melodeon player Paul Brock is a multiple All-Ireland champion from Athlone, County Westmeath now residing in Ennis, County Clare. Brock's solo album, Mo Charidin (Gael-Linn), was described by the Rough Guide to Irish Music as "a masterpiece of accordion playing."
Brock co-founded Brock McGuire Band in 2000 with fiddle player Manus McGuire. The band has gone on to record a number of highly acclaimed albums including Green Grass Blue Grass, a collaboration with 14-time GRAMMY Award winner Ricky Skaggs celebrating the connection between Appalachian and Irish music. In 2014, the band performed a fully-scored program of their music with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra in Jackson, Mississippi.
As a soloist, Brock has toured extensively internationally. He has performed with leading musicians and has been a special guest artist on a number of occasions with acclaimed Irish band The Chieftains.
In 1989, Brock and McGuire co-founded Moving Cloud, with whom he recorded two award winning albums for Green Linnet Records
Brock's 2006 collaboration with Enda Scahill, Humdinger (Compass Records), was voted "Irish Music Album of the Year" by The Irish Times and "Instrumental Album of the Year" by The Irish American News.
Brock's many album credits include A Tribute to Joe Cooley (Gael-Linn) with fiddler Frankie Gavin.
Contacts
Justin R. Hunter, administrative specialist III
Department of Music
479-575-4702,
jrhunte@uark.edu
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