Mikey Kenney

About

Sunday 20th April | 2025 | Doors at 6pm

Peggy's skylight

Tickets: £8-£15

Mikey Kenney is a respected fiddle player, singer, songwriter and composer from Liverpool. Embracing duality, Kenney is very much the musical outsider artist; he is hailed by many as an important conduit of learning, conserving and handing down both English and Irish traditional fiddle music in England's Northwest while constantly composing alternative and progressive music of his own with his last two releases Counsel of Owls and The Reverie Road receiving widespread acclaim.

For Kenney both of these releases serve as stepping stones in his artistic disciplines, as he seeks a way to use his knowledge of traditional fiddle music in his own compositions without compromising the integrity of either. Kenney allows other musical forms such as psychedelia, bluegrass, jazz and Italian tarantella to seep into his music but never so far as to allow any one influence to dominate his deep love for traditional fiddle playing.

As he joins us at Peggy's this April, we'll hope to see hear some sneaky previews from Tiny Little Light, his new album due out this September. The record is, with the exception of two instrumentals, a collection of songs written around original fiddle tunes in keeping with traditional forms but progressive in their arrangement and instrumentation.

Aside from his reputation for his original work, Kenney is also very much in demand as a collaborator and session musician for his fiddle-playing and string arranging and has worked with the likes of: Vinicio Capossela, Alabaster dePlume, Katherine Priddy, Josephine Foster, Bex Burch, Band of Burns, Adam Beattie, Emily Portman, Dominie Hooper, Victor Herrero, Alessandro 'Asso' Stefana, Dan Haywood's New Hawks, Liverpool Céilí Band, Jon Wilks, Johnny Campbell and more.

We can't wait to bring Mikey Kenney back to Nottingham this spring for the latest instalment of our much-loved Folkroom events at Peggy's Skylight.

"Mikey Kenney is a rare gem… there are few people who seem to embody traditional music in quite the same way. He's like a walking tune book, and his dedication to keeping the old music of his native Lancashire alive is something to be cherished. In person, he's much as his press images suggest he might be. Surely born in the wrong era, there's a wide-eyed wonder about him, and a sense that he was left on this planet to roam and soak up as many musical traditions as he possibly can. He's seen a lot and he's played a lot and his music positively drips with the wisdom and experience he's picked up along the way." – Jon Wilks,TradFolk

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