CONCERT FEATURING DAVID FRANCEY with CRAIG WERTH

A Singer-Songwriter from Canada

DAVID FRANCEY

Canadian singer-songwriter David Francey will bring his beautifully crafted songs, vivid stories, and wry humor back to the Irish Fest Center on Friday, May 2. Tickets for the 8 p.m. concert are $15. Guitarist/bouzouki player Craig Werth will accompany David as well as adding harmonies and some of his own original songs.

Recognized as one of Canada’s most revered folksingers, David was born in Ayrshire, Scotland and emigrated to Toronto with his parents when was 12 years old.

His attachment to his adopted country grew as he hitchhiked from one end of Canada to the other. This attachment, the people he met along the way and jobs as varied as truck driver and carpenter, surface in his songs of rail lines, farms, and the St. Lawrence Seaway. David’s songs and stories have been recorded by numerous other artists including the Barra MacNeils and the Rankin Family. He has played many of the major festivals and concert stages across North American as well as Europe and Australia.

David was recently nominated for a 2008 JUNO award for his seventh album, “Right of Passage.” This is the fourth nomination for the two-time JUNO (the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy) winner in the past six years. He was named one of the top 100 folk artists of the past 25 years in 2007 by WUMB, Boston’s folk music station.

“David Francey’s songs are lean, whippet-like creations…. He takes the everyday… and elevates it into something infinitely more noble and memorable….” – Eric Bogle, Australia.

WHEN: Friday, May 2, 2008 – 8:00 p.m. – Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: The Irish Fest Center, 1532 Wauwatosa Ave. (North 76 th St.)

TICKETS: $15 adults, $8 children ages 18 and under

Call (414) 332-8521 or e-mail kathy@turkeyhollow.com for information and advance tickets.