Mary Black

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  • 1975
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Mary Black is a performer equally at home singing traditional Irish folk tunes and contemporary music including blues, rock, jazz, country, and soul. She was born into a musical family as the daughter of a fiddler and a singer. She started out professionally with her brother and sister in Dublin nightclubs and then performed with General Humbert, a folk group, until 1982 when she released her eponymous solo debut. The album made it to the Top Five on the Irish album charts and won the Irish Independent Arts Award for Music. At the invitation of Alec Finn, Black joined the band De Danann. A week later, she took part with them in the recording of Song for Ireland. She remained with De Danann for three years. In 1984, Black helped produce and sang backup on Black's Family Favourites. She was still performing with De Danann when she launched her solo career with the Declan Sinnott-produced, largely pop album Without the Fanfare. Many of the tracks went gold, and for both 1987 and 1988, she was named Best Female Artist in the Irish Rock Music Awards Poll. Black's music crossed the Atlantic in 1990 when her 1989 album No Frontiers debuted in the U.S. and climbed to the Top 20 of the New Adult Contemporary chart. It was also a top-seller in Ireland. That year Black began a successful concert tour of Japan. Though her music is firmly based in Irish tradition, Black was interested in performing all kinds of music, with influences that included Sandy Denny and the Fairport Convention as well as Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, and Bonnie Raitt. Throughout the '90s she continued to release a steady stream of albums, including 1991's Babes in the Wood, 1993's The Holy Ground, and her first American record, 1997's Shine, which found Black singing more-polished pop songs (though its follow-up, Speaking with the Angel, saw her return to folk). In 2005 Full Tide, which included a cover of Bob Dylan's "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" along with new tracks, came out in the U.K., and hit American soil the following year. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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  • Jul 18 Thursday
    Dublin, Ireland The Convention Centre Dublin
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  • Jan 24 Friday
    Berlin, Germany Passionskirche Kreuzberg
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  • Jan 25 Saturday
    Lübeck, Germany Kolosseum
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  • Jan 26 Sunday
    Düsseldorf, Germany Savoy Theater
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  • Jan 28 Tuesday
    Osnabrück, Germany Lutherkirche
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  • Jan 29 Wednesday
    Bochum, Germany Christuskirche
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  • Jan 30 Thursday
    Frankfurt, Germany Heiliggeistkirche
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  • Mar 12 Wednesday
    Leeds, UK Leeds Town Hall
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  • Mar 13 Thursday
    Glasgow, UK Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
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  • Mar 14 Friday
    Gateshead, UK The Sage Gateshead
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  • Mar 15 Saturday
    Salford, UK Salford Lowry Lyric Theatre
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  • Mar 16 Sunday
    Manchester, UK The Bridgewater Hall
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  • Mar 17 Monday
    Birmingham, UK Symphony Hall
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  • Mar 18 Tuesday
    Cambridge, UK Corn Exchange Cambridge
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  • Mar 19 Wednesday
    Liverpool, UK Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
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  • Mar 21 Friday
    Eastbourne, UK The Congress Theatre
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  • Mar 22 Saturday
    Plymouth, UK Plymouth Pavilions
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  • Mar 23 Sunday
    Basingstoke, UK Anvil Arts Centre
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  • Mar 25 Tuesday
    Nottingham, UK Royal Concert Hall
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  • Mar 26 Wednesday
    Leicester, UK De Montfort Hall
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  • Mar 27 Thursday
    Leicester, UK De Montfort Hall
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  • Mar 27 Thursday
    Cardiff, UK St David's Hall
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  • Mar 28 Friday
    Oxford, UK New Theatre Oxford
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  • Mar 29 Saturday
    London, UK O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
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Discography

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  • Stories from the Steeples (2012)
    Mary Black
    Stories from the Steeples (2012)
    Blix Street Records
  • Full Tide (2005)
    Mary Black
    Full Tide (2005)
    Pure Pleasure Records
  • Live [CD & DVD] (2003)
    Mary Black
    Live [CD & DVD] (2003)
    MRA
  • Speaking with the Angel (2000)
    Mary Black
    Speaking with the Angel (2000)
    Curb Records
  • Shine (1997)
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    Shine (1997)
    Curb Records
  • Circus (1995)
    Mary Black
    Circus (1995)
    Curb Records
  • The Holy Ground (1993)
    Mary Black
    The Holy Ground (1993)
    Gift Horse Recordings
  • Babes in the Wood (1991)
    Mary Black
    Babes in the Wood (1991)
    Gift Horse Recordings
  • No Frontiers (1989)
    Mary Black
    No Frontiers (1989)
    Gift Horse Recordings
  • By the Time It Gets Dark (1987)
    Mary Black
    By the Time It Gets Dark (1987)
    Gift Horse Recordings
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