'The Duke of Oklahoma

and Other Stories'

on course for September release

Anthony started work earlier this month on the next album, The Duke of Oklahoma and Other Stories, due for release in autumn of this year, and to be accompanied by a Northern Ireland tour from September through to February 2010. The title track was previewed before live audiences at the recent Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival, where he shared the stage with songwriting legends like Nanci Griffith, Raul Malo and Benita Hill.

Anthony Toner's most recent album, A Sky For Every Day, released in March 2008, 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.

In the last 18 months Anthony has appeared 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.  He has performed to great acclaim in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia, Canada.  In the last year he wrote songs and incidental music for the stage satire, It’s Not All Rain and Potatoes, by Nuala McKeever and Andrea Montgomery and later wrote the theme and incidental music for the pair’s BBC radio sitcom pilot Is It Me?