Galway singer-songwriter Ultan Conlon has a special ability at capturing the human spirit through his lyrics, which have been honed over almost two decades of writing and performing.
As his confidence at crafting timeless songs has grown, so too have the captive audiences he regularly draws to his live shows.
Milton Keynes music fans will get the chance to check his live show themselves imminently - he plays The Stables on Monday (April 16) as Mary Coughlan's special guest.
The quality of his songwriting is equally matched by his powerful yet fragile voice that critics have likened to the great Roy Orbison.
Recorded in Galway over the winter of 2017, Ultan’s third studio album Last Days of The Night Owl was written on both the west coasts of Ireland and America.
Opening track ‘As The Light Gets Low’ was written in Ultan’s studio apartment in Santa Monica, LA - “It came to me in a hurry, one summer evening just off Pico BLVD, within view of the legendary McCabe’s Guitar Store. It’s a song about trying to let go of circular negative thoughts.”
His previous offering, Songs Of Love So Cruel, garnered widespread attention - Ultan returned to Ireland having performed the new album to a full house at the infamous Viper Room on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard.
More recently he returned stateside as the guest of The Watkins Family Hour, where he performed with Jackson Browne, Shelby Lynne and Benmont Tench of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers fame at Largo, Los Angeles.
Having shared the stage with the likes of Jackson Browne, Shelby Lynne, John Grant, Eddi Reader, Patty Griffin and Richard Hawley, Ultan has also performed duets with Glen Hansard and John Martyn. The latter Scottish folk legend later went onto record one of Ultan’s early works, Really Gone, in 2005.
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