James Keelaghan Concert

James Keelaghan brings an evening of stories and song to Waterloo. Expert song-writing and rich voice will transport you through a several lifetimes and histories.

Contemporary folk songs, at their very best, offer an insight into the hardships, attitudes, and resolve of characters and events that shape our day-to-day lives. You can dress these songs up in inspired arrangements and intricate instrumentation but, at their very essence, the archetypal folk song is all about stories. Stories and people. Something such compelling songwriters as Eric Bogle, Si Kahn, Ewan MacColl, and Stan Rogers … all understood and mined so effectively. James Keelaghan, too, burrows into that same rich seam with equal ability and comparable conviction.