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SHIRLEY GRIMES
SINGER FOLK SOLOIST OTHER
ID NUMBER	46979	click on the picture to zoom
COUNTRY	SWITZERLAND
CITY	ERLACH
ADDRESS	SUN MUSIC, P.O. BOX 130
ZIP	CH-3235
PHONE	+41 32 338 73 73	1st AUDIO	NO DATA
FAX	+41 32 338 73 74	2nd AUDIO	NO DATA
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E-MAIL	OFFSHORERECORDS@SWISSONLINE.CH
WEB	HTTP://WWW.SHIRLEYGRIMES.COM
For the first time in almost two years Shirley Grimes and the Insiders will be out touring the club circuit in Switzerland this coming November and December. Since the release Tour of her last cd ‚inside’ Shirley has been concentrating on work outside of Switzerland. Some of the highlights of this time were the support gigs that she was invited to play with Van Morrison and with Bonnie Raitt in several of the major cities in Germany and Austria, in the most renouned venues of those cities. Parallel to these concerts Shirley has helped out on several other projects (guest with Mich Gerber on his last Tour, Duett with Adrian Sieber on the latest Lovebugs unplugged album due for release January 2005, background vocalist with Mat Callahan and with Yvonne Moore, Vocalist with Simon Ho’ Winterreise) But now she is back to concentrating on her own songs and on the upcoming Tour. There will not only be several previews of new songs which she intends on recording in early 2005 but also several old ones that she hasn’t played live in almost ten years. Plus a few tracks from a couple of her idols that have always inspired her but which she has also never performed in front of an audience. So the audience can look forward to an evening of music which will range from the very intimate Shirley to the very rocky Shirley. And most of that with her Class A Band featuring Fabian Kuratli (Drums), Joe McHugh (Uillean pipes), Wolfgang Zwiauer (Bass), Oli Hartung (Guitar). To her last Album ‚Inside’......... Release: January 2003 Label: Earthbeat Distribution: EMI Records (Switzerland) AG With her new album “Inside”, the fourth from the Irish singer/songwriter who lives in Berne, Shirley Grimes reveals a great deal to us – not only about her inner being but also about the musical development of her songs. Over the past four years, she and her fellow musicians have played over 120 concerts which has resulted in them becoming a very close-knit group. This closeness can clearly be heard on the new album, which bears the personal style of bass player and producer Wolfgang Zwiauer. Zwiauer knows how to give the songs a modern feel, without the essence of Shirley’s songwriting becoming lost. The traditional Irish folk influences can still be heard in the background, but it seems almost as if Shirley Grimes is now, in musical terms, daring to make the leap into the big wide world. Today, she feels confident enough to do this, together with Fabian Kuratli on drums, the virtuoso guitarist Oli Hartung, Joe McHugh on Uillean Pipes and Wolfgang Zwiauer, the outstanding bass player. For Shirley Grimes, it is time to go beyond the borders of Switzerland and conquer the stages of this world. She already possesses the key elements for this: the new songs, in which she is able to express herself in an even more thoroughly critical and convinced manner than ever before; and the band, all top-class musicians who play well together, who in the meantime have become friends and with whom Shirley has shared many experiences over the last four years. With a loud laugh, the passionate, red-haired Irishwoman with the clear, questioning gaze tells us that in her heart of hearts she has remained a hippie. That is true –she does not conform to the image of the Irish siren who entertains in a bar performing the usual traditional folk songs of her native land. She has indeed done that too for years, only there is much more that this singer and guitarist has to offer than that stereotype would suggest. and before that......... Grimes published her debut album, “Songs of Seas and Ferries”, as far back as 1993, that is a few months after her arrival in Switzerland, and received much praise from press and public for this multifaceted collection. But instead of building on this commercial success, the singer/songwriter and mother withdrew into the background, and for some years ran a club in Berne. An experience which taught her more than all her appearances on both sides of the Irish Sea, as she says. When after a long period of silence Grimes got out her guitar again, she took the cold start of her career into her own hands. In 1997, she published “Ode”, her second album, and released it on her own record label “Offshore”. Despite clearly defined rhythms, the music of this second album was still Celtic. But through “Ode” it had become clear to Grimes that she wanted to follow new paths and had to find new partners for this. And so she eventually met one of the most sought-after rhythm sections in Switzerland: Fabian Kuratli (drums) and Wolfgang Zwiauer (bass). The experienced and extremely talented guitarist Oli Hartung came from the Berne “Shoppers”. The Californian producer Mat Callahan joined them too, and so in 2000 “New Waters” came into being, a beautiful, surprisingly modern work with a traditional timbre, which found its way into the shops in Spain as well as France. In 2001, Shirley Grimes also ventured among the concert organisers. Together with Joe McHugh, for many years her accompanist on the Uillean pipes, and other musician friends she organised her own “Irish Music Festival” in the Zurich Volkshaus. Some of the pieces performed at the very successful festival have been compiled on a CD, which is on sale not only in Switzerland but also in England and Ireland. Encouraged by this success, in March 2003 Shirley Grimes, as joint organiser, presented the hugely successful “Irish Music Festival” in various Swiss cities for the first time, featuring 18 musicians and dancers. Following the release of her latest CD in Ireland and England.		1993 <Songs of Seas and Ferries> Zytglogge 1997 <Ode> offshore / RecRec 2000 <New Waters> offshore / COD music / MV musikvertrieb 2003 <Inside> Earthbeat / EMI and appearances on......: 2002 Yvonne Moore <nomad> Zytglogge 2003 Irish Music Festival released in england/ ireland only 2004 Lovebugs unplugged due for release jan/feb 2005 2004 Simon Ho due for release winter 2004 2004 ‚Schlummerland’ lullabys for children in swiss german
MANAGEMENT	MATTHIAS KURATLI
PHONE	+41 31 386 10 00
FAX	+41 31 386 10 05
E-MAIL	INFO@EARTHBEAT.CH



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