10/22/2016
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
The Opera House
86 Townsend Avenue
Event Type
The show begins at 7:30 PM. Doors for seating open at 7:00 PM. Advance tickets $20, day of performance $25. Here’s what people are saying about the Grammy-nominated, John Doyle, “Doyle on guitar has risen to a level occupied by him alone. No one in Irish traditional music is a better guitarist than him right now. His chops, always assured and adroit, have now entered a rarefied zone of inspired, instinctive, in-the-moment creativity that made me gasp in awe and for breath. In my Wall Street Journal article on him this past March, I described John as one of the world’s best acoustic guitarists. I now think that may be an understatement. In addition, his vocal delivery and his songwriting have never been more impressive, reaching an apogee in “The Arabic,” where his singing and guitar accompaniment (this is really a misnomer: his self-backing and instrumental fills and runs on guitar constituted a tour de force in and of themselves) on his own song were unforgettable. What are they putting in the potable water where John resides that has made him so mind-vaultingly good?,” says Earle Hitchner of the Wall Street Journal and the Irish Echo. The Chicago Tribune calls Doyle “A complete rhythm section all on his own” and the Philadelphia News says he has “More talent than anybody deserves to have all to themselves.” The Opera House is honored to welcome John Doyle back to our stage this season. Artist website: johndoylemusic.com