Fureys set for Kilmore show

The Fureys are set to return to Cavan once again for yet another highly anticipated concert.

Playing in the Hotel Kilmore on Thursday, December 28, the show will make a perfect addition to your Christmas plans.

One of Ireland’s all-time most acclaimed and influential middle of the road, folk and traditional bands the Fureys are set to play classics like I Will Love You, When You Were Sweet 16, Red Rose Café, Leaving Nancy, and The Old Man.

The Fureys’ indelible musical footprint is rivalled only by their vast collection of personal stories of their musical experiences and friendships, gathered by Eddie and George Furey along an amazing 44-year journey which shows no signs of reaching a final destination.

The Furey brothers were still trying to make it as folk singers in the late 1960s when Eddie Furey shared flats in Scotland with then fellow folk stars-in-waiting, Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty.

Eddie recalls: “It was quite a group to be living under the same roof and we had great fun. I bet the neighbours never slept with all the singing and drinking.”

So impressed were they by the quality of Gerry Rafferty’s songwriting at that time that they recorded his song, Her Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway, now a Fureys’ classic.

The Fureys will jump at any chance to play and not just on stage.

Stories of the band striking up spur of the moment music sessions with fellow music stars are legendary. Joe Dolan, Philomena Begley, Tom O’Connor, Chris Rea, the Chieftains, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, LiamClancy and Sean Maguire are just a few of those who have joined.