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Music Tuesday – Katharine Philippa

Katharine Philippa is a musician who hails from Portadown. We have known about her for a few years and wanted to include her in a Ballymena Today Music Tuesday blog post! She is an incredibly talented songwriter, with beautifully haunting lyrics. Music Tuesday – Katharine Philippa We would love you to watch this video below which showcases her vocals in a collaboration with HyperDuck SoundWorks.  and now watch this incredible cover, I feel like we don’t really need to add anything else! Want more? Check out her latest release – Futures Full- Edward F Butler- ft- Katharine Philippa. Katharine saw music as a means of communication from an early age: she sang in the pram to unsuspecting persons when out for a walk; she crawled to the piano upon hearing her mother play. Years later, graduating from Music at Queen’s University, Belfast and completing an organ scholarship developed her eclectic influences. (Source) We absolutely love Katharine’s music and it has provided the perfect soundtrack for our autumn. To find out more about Katharine Philippa and her live performances click...

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Ballymena Today Music Tuesday Update

Here at Ballymena Today we love seeing acts and artists who are regulars on out playlists doing well. Recently we spotted SOAK, who we featured here, on the shortlist to win a Northern Ireland music prize. Up against the likes of Duke Special, Ciaran Lavery & Ryan Vail, and Tim Wheeler we are quietly confident that SOAK might just go home with an award. Recently we also featured Ballymena act Lilla Vargen – if you didn’t catch that blog post then find out more here. The beautiful singer, songwriter got an invite to perform her song “This is Love” at Mount Stewart as part of the Burberry Acoustic which supports new musical talent. Click here to view more from Burberry Acoustic and just play the video below to see Lilla Vargen in action.  And for anyone who was following our reports about musicians who were playing at the Gig’n the Bann but didn’t have a chance to be there, you might just be able to grab a listen. The Gribben Girls recently shared that their musical night was recorded by BBC Radio Ulster and will be available to listen to here. Phew, that is us up to date for now. Please keep sending us your favourite local musical acts from Ballymena and throughout Northern...

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Music Tuesday – Gig n the Bann Festival Pt2

Welcome to part two of our Gig n the Bann Festival music feature. Last Tuesday we introduced you to two of the act which are playing at the Gig n the Bann Festival this weekend. Here are two more acts – The Gribbin Girls and Phil Coulter. The Gribbin Girls The ‘Gribbin Girls’ are an acoustic sister singing duo, with a folk type vibe. Both Edel and Clodagh started singing at an early age but it was only about four years ago that they decided upon focusing on it as their sole career!  Having started out singing at wedding ceremonies and drinks receptions,...

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Music Tuesday – Gig n the Bann Festival

The Gig n the Bann Festival is being held in Portglenone, near Ballymena next weekend and for our music Tuesday blog post this week we want to feature a few of the acts who will be playing at the annual Music Festival. The Gig n the Bann Festival does a great job of picking great established acts alongside brilliant youthful local acts. For example on Friday night the Wild Duck will host two great artists – Aurora and The Illegals with Niamh Kavanagh. Aurora Aurora are Catherine and Jane and they love performing covers of popular songs in their traditional style. This...

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Music Tuesday – Lilla Vargen

Today we want to introduce Lilla Vargen as one of our favourite new musical acts. At Ballymena Today we have used our Music Tuesday blog posts to showcase talented local musicians including SOAK (who is currently on the Radio 1 playlist), Foy Vance and Robyn G Shiels. Originally from Northern Ireland, Lilla Vargen has been playing on repeat in the Ballymena Today office. She has released her first single This is Love earlier this year, which showcases her beautiful voice and piano playing. Her Soundcloud features her single alongside an unrecognisable cover of the Red Hot Chili Peppers song Don’t Forget...

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