THE CROOKED JADES

“The Crooked Jades are on a mission to reinvent old-world music for a modern age, pushing boundaries and blurring categories with their fiery, soulful performances. Innovative, unpredictable and passionate, they bring their driving dance tunes and haunting ballads to rock clubs, festivals, traditional folk venues and concert halls across America and Europe……” So goes the blurb on their web site http://www.crookedjades.com/press.html

This band played last night at the Flowerfield Arts Centre http://www.flowerfield.org/ in Portstewart and lived up to and indeed exceeded expectations. The have just started a short tour of Ireland and will be in Belfast (29/10/08 Spiegel tent, Belfast Festival at Queens) then Bangor, Lisburn and Letterkenny. They played a variety of tunes including Bluegrass, Americana, traditional American and their own compositions (they have a new album out) and kept the adience enthralled from the first fast fiddle driven tune to the last stomping and ‘howling’ encore. I can thoroughly recommend attending one of their gigs.

Congratulations to Anthony Toner and the team at the Flowerfield for yet another success.