Alan McBride with special guest Sylvia Burnside
The Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen
Thursday 6th February at 8.00pm
Tickets £15.00 available from the Box Office. Tel: 028 6632 5440
or online @ www.ardhowentheatre.com
Alan McBride and his band will be performing a range of popular favourites with songs from the shows, popular light opera arias, and some traditional tunes, from artists including Frank Sinatra, Kenny Rodgers, Michael Ball, Il Divo, Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson, Simon & Garfunkel, The Drifters, Lionel Richie and Eric Clapton. The special guest on the evening will be Sylvia Burnside. Alan and Sylvia have worked together on several occasions; they recently stole the show at The Belfast Tattoo at The Odyssey Arena, Belfast when they performed to an audience of more than 10,000.
Alan McBride
Alan McBride is five times World Champion Senior Drum Major; his other titles include Ulster, All-Ireland, Cowal, Scottish, British, European, and Australian. He has travelled over the world to do exhibitions, tutor and judge. Alan’s other passion is singing, which has given him the opportunity to perform in the Opera House Belfast, Ulster Hall, Lyceum London, Helix Dublin, and in the Aras an Uachtarain in Dublin for former president Mary McAleese.
Sylvia Burnside
Sylvia Burnside is growing in reputation as a performer and as one of Ireland’s leading singing teachers under the tutilage of The Royals Schools of Music. She has dedicated her adult life and studies to the pursuit of what she calls ‘core communication in song’ and has had the joy of teaching hundreds of pupils using her own enthusiastic benchmark style of education. It was in 1994, that Sylvia began her Singing and teaching studies with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). From these initial poignant undergraduate stages, Sylvia has devoted herself to a deepening understanding of what it is to engage fully with songs in performance. This fundamental skill is the foundation of both her performance practice and her teaching. In 2005 Sylvia was awarded the ‘Fellowship of the Royal Schools of Music’ continuing in the Royal School’s tradition of establishing performance as an excellence. Sylvia, who was awarded a Distinction in the University of Ulster’s Masters of Music in 2008 said, “I continue a maturing interest in the knowledge of singing and its interpretation; it has brought colour and vibrancy into my life, and other’s. I’ve come to appreciate that people need the song, for in it, is represented all that makes us human. The edges of mortality and fragile life exposed in each note and phrase, from which is suspended the depth of soul and emotion….what a gift!”
Watch Alan & Sylvia’s performance @ The Belfast Tattoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQuVND-nWso
