Acoustic Room Series : Hubert Murray and Dubh Lee

Thursday 30th July, 8pm

The Acoustic Room is new platform for original music at Esker Arts. Featuring singer-songwriters from the midlands, the Acoustic Room offers an intimate, special experience of original songs. The inaugural Acoustic Room gig will feature two of Offaly’s finest music artists: Hubert Murray and Dubh Lee.

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Dubh Lee has entertained countless audiences across Ireland. With wide-ranging influences – from folk, blues and rock – and an unadorned, honest vocal style, her songs explore excess, ennui, heartache and womanhood. Dubh Lee has performed at festivals and events such as the Ruby Sessions, Electric Picnic, Fuinneamh and the Rory Gallagher festival in Ballyshannon as well as intimate shows opening for acts such as Alabama 3, Jerry Fish and Bagatelle. Not afraid of experimenting with genre, Dubh Lee’s vocals have featured on the tracks of hip-hop and drum’n’bass artists.

Hubert Murray, has a voice bursting from the soul. Growing up in a house of mix-tapes and stacks of folk & blues records, he sifted through each one, de-composing their melodies and lyrics. His distorted folk sound embodies all that is best in modern roots music, combining soul, energy and storytelling. Hubert’s songs feature lost loves, inner demons, compulsive liars & daydreamers, rounded out with a masterful hand over the fretboard. His sound bows a head to the masters of melody and word such as John Martyn, Beck, Laura Marling and Jeff Buckley

Tickets: €10. Early booking advised.

Acoustic Room I: Hubert Murray and Dubh Lee