Published: Wednesday, 4th November, 2009 5:00pm

Origins in November

Friday November 6

McGinnity's Bar Audrey Ryan, 8pm. Highly recommended! Went down well last year; myspace.com/audreyryan

Friday November 13

The Widows Bar, 8pm Lisa O'Neill; myspace.com/lisaconeill

Friday November 20

McGinnity's Bar, 8pm TBC; myspace.com/marymcclorymusic

Friday November 27

The Widows Bar, 8pm Bobby Noonan; myspace.com/bobbynoonansongs

Saturday November 28

The Railway Station, Belturbet: Jinx Lennon and Miss Paula Flynn with support by String Theory (O'Brien Bros and Co). Doors open 8pm, €12. Presented by Macanna Teoranta in association with Origins; myspace.com/originscavan.

Audrey Ryan

Audrey Ryan grew up in a musical family on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine. Her dad played guitar and Hey Good Lookin' Whatcha Got Cookin to her mother as she made dinner. Mrs. Ryan sang and played piano in the living room and the organ at church.

Audrey started learning guitar at 10, and through school learned folk tunes from the likes of Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, John Fahey, and Bob Dylan. In college she discovered jazz and became immersed in Miles Davis, Coltrane, Bill Evans and Herbie Hancock.

She spent a few years living and travelling in Africa, Asia, and Australia, writing songs and building up to a point where she would play them with other people in front of other people, as she puts it on her myspace page.

Audrey's debut record, Passing Thru, came in 2004. She self-released two EPs in the following two years and started recording a second full-length with help from Stephen Brodsky (known for his work in Cave In). Dishes & Pills is the result - released in the UK by Folkwit Records.

Audrey tells her website that over the years her music "has evolved into an eclectic form of experimental folk, singer-songwriter indie rock of some alien breed using backwards and forwards loops, finger pianos, and other unique instrumentation".

She tours a lot and has shared the bill with Suzanne Vega, Steve Forbert, Josh Ritter, Fionn Regan and Ra Ra Riot... See her for yourself in Cavan this week.

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