| Thursday, November 15th, 2012 |

So tonight (THURS Nov 15), Ross and I are performing with some others at a hurricane relief benefit concert at the beautiful St John’s Lutheran Church in Greenwich Village, also known as the Christopher Street Coffee House, as part of the once-monthly Songwriter’s Beat concert series, organised by Val Ghent.

ALL proceeds made on the door will be donated to local grassroots relief efforts. Some of it will go to help musicians who lost their instruments when their studios were flooded, and the rest will go to pop up grassroots organisations run by concerned New Yorkers who were first responders in the aftermath of the storm, bringing hot food and essential emergency supplies while official agencies were still scratching their arses. In the main these relief efforts have been peopled and supplied by locals with tremendous dedication and hard work. People heard the call, cooked, donated and delivered hot food, hot chocolate, blankets and emergency supplies to those left without electricity, water and heat, and their efforts continue.

So we’d love to see you later. Come on down.

DOORS: 7pm, music starts 7.30 pm
ADMISSION: $10, more if you have it, ALL proceeds go directly to people in need
DRINKS: $5 wine, $1 coffee / fizzy water

VENUE: St. John’s Lutheran Church, aka Christopher St Coffee House
LOCATION: 81 Christopher Street, between 7th Ave and Bleecker St, NYC 10014.

TRAINS: 1 to Christopher st, A/C/E/B/D/F/M to West 4th st, PATH to Christopher st or 6th Ave.
PARKING: Garage parking on Morton/7th ave.

Cheers,
Lucy
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| Monday, September 17th, 2012 |

I’ve been away in Ireland and London all summer and there were many adventures with thrilling and dastardly moments and now we’re back in New York and we’re getting ready for the second EVER performance of Songs For People I Will Never See Again, which will receive its Brooklyn premiere on September 28th at 7:45 pm at a favourite haunt of ours, Freddy’s bar at 627 Fifth avenue in Brooklyn.

I’ll be performing a slightly different selection of stories than the first performance at apexart, the likelihood is that they will be more heart wrenching than the first lot and the roar of ecstacy at the end might be a little more raucous than in an art gallery context. :

Performing with her four headed, multi-armed rock and roll dragon, Lucy Foley brings her rousing music, video and story-filled show Songs For People I Will Never See Again to Freddy’s for its Brooklyn premiere. Ecstatic, sad and true stories of highly unusual alliances and quiet revolutions in unlikely places.

If you feel this might suit you down to the ground, you’re very welcome to join us, we’d love to see you there. You are what makes it fun for me, you see.



| Friday, June 15th, 2012 |

I come to you today bearing videos and photos from a dream. A dream in which this happened. A packed room full of beautifully attentive people gathered together in a gallery in Soho a few weeks ago and together we shared the first performance of my new show, Songs For People I Will Never See Again. This show is the fruition of a lot of work, truth be told. It feels like an amazing journey I’m taking. Ross and I worked intensely the night before the performance, editing the video for No One Owns It, but these photos took a few years to accumulate. That song finished the show. My Lagan Love came at a quiet point, earlier.

And here are a variety of funny faces I made during the show.

We’re playing at Freddy’s tomorrow night, June 16th for the Freddy’s Bloomsday party. Bloomsday is the date on which Mister Joyce’s Ulysses takes place, it is usually celebrated in a variety of fun ways in Dublin. We’ll be doing a Brooklyn version, the whole evening is going to be a blast. I’ll be reading a few short extracts from Ulysses (and probably from Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman too) and singing to wake The Dead. Lots of other bands will be playing throughout the night, including the Highland Shatners at 9pm. We take the stage at 10. And it’s free, free, all free.

And then next Thursday June 21st we’ll be playing at the Make Music NY Festival! The festival happens on the summer solstice, filling the five boroughs of New York city with music in all sorts of unlikely locations. We are thrilled to be performing this year in Washington Square Park on a (hopefully) sunny afternoon in June. Come have lunch with us!

We are the guests of Songwriter’s Beat and Solar Punch and we be performing on completely solar-powered gear. Solar Punch play at noon, We’ll be on at 12.30 pm, and the music continues throughout the afternoon. Bring a packed lunch and we’ll try to go easy on your digestion.

Cheers m’dears from Lucy HQ.
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Details:
June 16th, 10 pm
Freddy’s Bloomsday party at Freddy’s Bar
627 Fifth ave, between 17th and 18th st.
SUBWAY: R to Prospect Ave
BUS: to 17th st

June 21st, 12.30 pm in the afternoon
Make Music NY Festival 2012
Washington Square Park, New York NY 10003



| Thursday, June 14th, 2012 |

My Lagan Love, performed at apexart, May 24th, 2012. With Ross Bonadonna on guitar.
Video courtesy of apexart.



| Monday, June 4th, 2012 |

I’ve just put up a set of photos from our first performance of Songs For People I Will Never See Again at apexart on May 24th. Here are a few, and you can see the full set on Flickr. Photos courtesy of apexart.



| Saturday, May 19th, 2012 |

“Sometimes you have to breathe fire into the dreams that come to you for fire, whoever’s dreams they turn out to be. They might be yours and you don’t know it yet.”

- From Songs For People I Will Never See Again, by Lucy Foley

I’ve been working on a new show and we’re about to reveal it for the first time! It’s called Songs For People I Will Never See Again and my band and I will be performing it for the first time at apexart, an art space in Tribeca next Thursday, May 24th at 6.30 pm. It’s a multimedia show of live music performance with projected video and photographs, woven through a spoken word narrative. Refreshments will be served.

Ross and the band and I have been working like maniacs on this show. Accompanying me will be Ross Bonadonna (guitars, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, laptops, video), Gavin Smith (synthesizer, steel pan, clarinet, toy piano), Andrew Mattina (bass) and Tom Pope (drums and percussion). I have written the show and will be singing and telling it.

This is a very personal show, culled from encounters, stories and photographs I have been making for a long time, as well as all the songs from Copenhagen in new arrangements, and a couple of marvellous new ones. We are delighted to be performing it for the first time at apexart, a dynamic non-profit arts organisation doing very interesting work in New York city and worldwide.

Songs For People I Will Never See Again is a celebration of people who have moved through my life and disappeared again.

The performance will include stories and songs of the wood turner of Sunset Park who turns devastating loss into beautiful objects, a woman who discovers her beauty accidentally by the side of the street, the great courage of daisies, Philoctetes the Greek air traffic controller who returns nightly to a cave to mourn his lost youth, and an unexpected love affair with a French mosquito. We celebrate this night the moment freed from time into story and song, and hear of people I will never see again.

We’d love to see you there if you’re in New York, and if you’re not in NYC, the performance will be videoed and available on the apexart website from a couple of days after the event, so you can get a flavour of what the show is like. I’ll also be posting some photos and possibly videos from our rehearsals over the next few days on twitter and facebook, in the lead-up to the show.

Cheers,
Lucy

May 24th, 6.30 pm
Songs For People I Will Never See Again
apexart, 291 Church Street, New York NY 10013
A public program of apexart

DIRECTIONS:

apexart, 291 Church street, New York, NY 10013

SUBWAY: A,C,E, N, R, Q , J, Z and 6 trains to Canal street / 1 to Franklin st

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| Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 |



| Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 |

Hello folks

I’ll be performing with my band on Thursday in a club on the lower east side. If you are in the NYC area and free that night I would be greatly glad to see you there. It’s this Thursday, March 22nd at 10pm in Fat Baby, 112 Rivington street, NY NY 10002.

My first gig of this year was in fan/friend Ana’s house on a typical rainy night in Dublin. Her house was packed to the gills with lovely people and great listeners all. Ross and I performed as a duo to candlelight and we all had a blast together. We flew back to New York the very next morning.

Next gig back in NYC was in early February and New York Music Daily blog gave it a very enthusiastic review. We’re just raring to go, now.

So, since I wrote to you last, I got married (last September, in New York, to Ross), and my parents came to New York for the first time. While he was here, my dad Charles played piano on a version of a favourite Irish song of mine that we recorded together. It’s a folk melody called My Lagan Love, if you’re Irish you’ll probably know it well. I used to think about this song all the time when I lived in Dublin, I finally started to sing it when I lived in Copenhagen, probably in 2004. I’d go into the forest and sing it there, usually. My grandfather died in 2006 and I sang it at his funeral. This song has always had a strong resonance for me, and I’m surprised it has taken me this long to actually record it. We did this version very quickly, live in the studio. Ross contributed some lovely undertones to it and it’s now streaming on my bandcamp page, with a photo of me taken in Washington Square Park on my wedding day, when a cockatoo landed on my shoulder (I think there was a white on white love thing going on).

I sang it at my last gig at the Parkside Lounge, and I will probably sing it again on Thursday night (10 o’clock!), before my band and I kick into our set of raucously poetic love songs. Yet again, I will be joined by this thrilling band of gentlemen: Ross Bonadonna on guitar, Gavin Smith on keys and horn, Andy Mattina on bass and Tom Pope on drums.

See you soon (Thursday, I hope).

Cheers,
Lucy
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| Friday, February 17th, 2012 |

I love it when somebody notices exactly what I hope I’m doing and writes about it. The New York Music Daily blog has just reviewed my last gig at the Parkside a couple of weeks ago:

As many bands as there are here in New York, you’d think that finding good new ones would be like shooting fish in a barrel. It’s not – but isn’t it fun when you do? Two new acts who’re already good and seem like they’ll get even more interesting are Lucy Foley and Llama. Foley is a newcomer from Ireland, a confident, dynamic and often dramatic singer who’s equally at home with retro new wave pop and stagy noir cabaret. At a gig a couple of weeks ago at the Parkside opening for the perennially brilliant, inscrutably charismatic Tom Warnick, she was backed by a great band: her new husband Ross Bonadonna on guitar, Tom Pope on drums, Andy Mattina on bass and a guy who doubled on synth and tenor sax. Anytime a musician can get a supporting cast of that caliber, it’s an auspicious sign. Fans of Blondie and the Dresden Dolls should check her out; she’s at Fat Baby on March 22.

We’ll be onstage at 10pm sharp at Fat Baby, on March 22nd. You should come.



| Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 |

Forthcoming gig, just booked: February 04, at the Parkside Lounge, opening for Tom Warnick and the World’s Fair. We’re on at 8pm, Tom takes the stage at 9. Tom was one of my first favourite New York songwriters when I started to spend more time here and he doesn’t perform live very much these days so it’ll be a bit of a special one. We’ll be playing the same set list we just played at a house gig in Dublin, which was a lot of fun. Looking forward to performing in this setup again. This gig will be pared down to the basic two: me on vocals and Ross Bonadonna on guitar. Playing with such bare bones is very different to the full band setting but I’m enjoying the performative possibilities it offers, right now. There’s a lot of space to fill.  I’d be delighted to see you there. No cover.

UPDATE: I’ll be playing this gig with my full band. 8pm, Saturday February 04, 2012. Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston Street, New York.