Venue: St. Barrahane's Church, Castletownshend, P81 AH51, 8pm
Tickets €20
Online, at the door, at Thornhill Electrical Skibbereen or text/call 086 226 4797
Camilla Griehsel - voice
Maurice Seezer - keyboard
Paul Tiernan - guitar
Renaud Pion - bass clarinet
Camilla has been singing in front of an enraptured audience since she was five years old and living in Sweden. When she was ten, she won a place in the prestigious Adolf Frederik Musik School in Stockholm where her love of choral work and collaboration blossomed.
Her late teens saw her singing in a Baptist church choir in Virginia, busking in a Sweet Adeline group in Stockholm’s Old Town, and entertaining holiday makers in Gran Canaria and skiers in Switzerland.
Camilla was in chart-topping Norwegian pop group ‘One 2 Many’ in her early twenties and then, after being persuaded she was really a lyric soprano, and furthering her vocal education with professionals from the opera circuit, including a spell at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, she played the lead role, sung in Yiddish, in the world premier of The Dybbuk, in Tel Aviv.
By this time Camilla was a mother of two and living in London with her professional musician husband, Colin Vearncombe (aka Black). After a trip to South America with her third son to record an album with legendary percussionist Julio ‘Chocolate’ Algendones in Lima, Peru, the family decided to up sticks and move to beautiful West Cork.
Camilla kept her career moving while bringing up her family. Her performance in the lead role in Astor Piazzola’s Maria de Buenos Aires opera which was performed entirely in Spanish, at Cork Opera House was described by the Irish Examiner as ‘sensuous yet poignantly fragile’. In a desire to engage with the live music culture of Ireland she formed the band ‘Dogtail Soup’ with her husband Colin, Fergus O’Farrell (of Interference), and Maurice Seezer. They played regularly in Ireland and toured in Eastern Europe. After all the members of the band played in Interference and opened for the Swell Season in The Radio City Music Hall, New York, Glen Hansard fronted Dogtail Soup for two special tribute concerts.
2018 saw the launch of Mamasongue, Camilla’s two-hour stage show featuring songs from across the world. The show is performed in five languages and weaves stories of magic and mystery in between tangos and lullabies, gospel and blues, laughter and tears. “A Musical Delight” ~Irish Examiner
Maurice Seezer is a musician, songwriter and composer for film and theatre.
Film-scores written or co- written by Maurice include ‘Angel Baby’ (1995), ‘The Boxer’ (1997), ‘Disco Pigs’ (2000), ‘In America’ (2003), ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ (2006), ‘The Pier’ (2011)
He collaborated on 3 albums with Gavin Friday for Island Records from 1989 until 1995. “Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves”, Adam ‘n’ Eve and ‘Shag Tobacco’
He has contributed original songs to soundtracks for Jim Sheridan, Baz Luhrmann and Michael Rymer . (‘In The Name Of The Father”, “The Boxer”, “In America” ‘Romeo And Juliet’, ‘Moulin Rouge’ among others).
He was a proud member of “The Mohawks”, Billy Hatchett’s backing band in Neil Jordan’s “Breakfast On Pluto” where he made his onscreen speaking debut with the key line “Wumba Wumba Wumba”.
Collaboration and production credits include work with Bono, Gavin Friday, Maria McKee, Andrea Corr, Camilla Griehsel, Sinead O’Connor, Interference (Fergus O’Farrell), DogTail Soup and Colin Vearncombe (aka Black).
A founding committee member of the Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull, Maurice was Chair and Co Artistic Director of the festival for three years until September 2013. He curated “Music In Film” for the festival until 2023.
He has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe (1994, 2004), twice for an Ivor Novello Award (1995, 2004), once for a Broadcast Film Critic’s Association Award (2004).
In July 2014, IMRO & ASCAP presented an award to Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer in recognition of the ongoing success of their film compositions in the USA.
Renaud Pion is an instrumentalist and a composer who plays low woodwinds: bass and contrabass clarinet, bass flute, baritone saxophone, English horn.
He has published music of his own and has taken part in many recording and touring projects.
His latest is a multimedia performance based on an opera which he completed in 2023. www.renaudgabrielpion.org
Paul Tiernan. The man who in 2008 had a song (How to say goodbye) featured in Holly-wood teen cult movie !Nick and Norah"s Infinite playlist", who once played with the legendary Donovan, who has 9 solo albums released, who has played his trusty mandola with Nick Harper, Boo Hewerdine, Robyn Hitchcock, Mark Geary, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Sinead Lohan, Katell Keineg and Glen Hansard to name but a few. He also sang and played the same trusty mandola on Morcheeba"s album !Blood like lemonade"#(released June 2010). In 2011 !How to say goodbye"#was in the English, Australian and Mexican top 30 Itunes singer-songwriter charts. Before we forget, also a member of cult Irish band !Interference"#who"s song of beauty and wonder !Gold"#featured in Oscar winning Irish film !Once"#and is now a huge broadway hit. Paul released his latest album ‘Rollercoaster’ in 2023 only available on bandcamp: https://paultiernan.bandcamp.com/album/rollercoaster