LAST GIG OF THE YEAR!
Take a break from Christmas preparation on Monday December 22 for a short concert at Flowerfield Arts Centre in Portstewart (start time 5.30pm, duration about an hour). We're hoping to serve mince pies, mulled wine and good music.
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Anthony Toner songs cover subjects as diverse as disoriented astronauts, urban renewal, jilted lovers wracked by paranoia and Ian Fleming’s links with Northern Ireland.
His latest album, A Sky For Every Day, has notched up impressive sales, with the singles ‘Sailortown’ and ‘Marion, That’s All Right’, being playlisted by the major radio stations in Northern Ireland. The album – and its predecessor, Eventually (2002) – have attracted strong reviews.
Anthony’s work was included by the Northern Ireland Music Industry Commission on their compilation New Folk, Traditional and Roots Music from Northern Ireland in 2005, and he was also the recipient of a Support for the Individual Artist award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 2007.
In 2008 he wrote songs and incidental music for the stage production of It’s Not All Rain and Potatoes, written by Nuala McKeever and Andrea Montgomery; he later wrote the theme and incidental music for the pair’s BBC radio sitcom pilot Is It Me?
Recently he featured in the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival, sharing the stage with songwriting greats like Benny Gallagher, Iain Archer, Pat Alger and Ralph Murphy. In September he appeared as special guest of Frances Black at the Grand Opera House in Belfast, and also shared the stage with Brendan Murphy and Bap Kennedy at the Aspects Literary Festival in Bangor.
Anthony has also had a number of short stories published by The Black Mountain Review, and has seventeen years experience as a journalist, supplying articles for local press as well as Fortnight magazine, Hot Press and the Irish Times.
He is currently working on a batch of new songs and laying plans for recording and writing projects for the months ahead.
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