ROCK D LOUGH 2009

ROCK D LOUGH 2009

Profile Music Group Ltd in association with The Backroom Music Venue and E2 Music hosted Rock ‘D’ Lough Festival 2009 Headlined by Damien Dempsey.

DAMIEN DEMPSEY

Damien’s collection of Meteor Awards include both Best Irish Male and also Best Traditional / Folk and his roots in Traditional music can be clearly felt in his own compositions on his previous albums. Damien says; “Ballads are my roots, it was the first music that turned me on, and the first songs that I heard being sung in my home by friends and family”. “I would have over two hundred ballads in my head, and I used to sing them regularly in pubs around Dublin in the 1990’s. I reckoned I had a good feel for these songs, and as I studied Irish history, I felt I could really tell their story and do them some justice on an album….I’ve always been an advocate of the sing-song, and I have a lot of very young fans, so naturally if I do this album, these kids are gonna hear all these timeless songs that they may not have heard otherwise”. “I want to give the young kids an alternative to the new MTV generation, gangster rap, Britney Spears and maybe get them interested in their own history through music”.

Supporting Damian Dempsey for his Rock ‘D’ Lough Performance were locals Ruairi Coogan, Peadar Farrelly & Co and Fiona Melady