David Gray has confirmed two dates at Dublin's National Concert Hall for next March.
The British musician will play the venue on Saturday and Sunday, March 4 and 5 2023. Tickets for both shows go on sale from €59.40 this Friday, October 21 at 10am via Ticketmaster.
As part of his string of shows in Ireland David will also play Cork Opera House on March 1 and The National Opera House in Wexford on March 2. David Gray and his Skellig choir present the songs of Skellig live.
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Skellig was released on February 19 last year. David's 12th studio album features atmospheric songs centring themselves around six-part vocals with Gray trading his signature gravel for a softer tone. The piece of work takes its name from a formation of precipitous rocky islands off the coast of County Kerry, the most westerly point in Ireland.
The seemingly un-inhabitable location of Skellig Michael became an unlikely site of pilgrimage in 600AD for a group of monks, who believed that leading such a merciful existence, they would leave the distraction of the human realm to be ultimately closer to God. Told to him by a friend, the story has haunted Gray's imagination ever since.
"The more I contemplated the idea of a small group of people landing on those rocks and establishing a monastic life there, the more overpowered I became by a dizzying sense of awe," he said. "Life must have been unbelievably hard for them and trying to fathom the deep spiritual conviction that compelled them to escape the mediaeval world lead me to acknowledge my own deepest longings to be free of all the endless human noise that we now so readily accept as being such an inescapable part of our day to day lives."
"Dreams of revelation, dreams of a cleansing purity, dreams of escape. Ideas that I think almost any 21st century person shouldn’t find it too hard to relate to," he added.
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