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Sue Rynhart

"Beautiful vocalist...wonderful composition" - BBC Sue's debut album 'Crossings' (Songs for Voice & Double Bass) with Dan Bodwell was nominated 'Best Jazz Album' in the Irish Times Ticket Awards 2014. and her new album 'Signals' is receiving International critical acclaim from publications and radio including; The Irish Times, American website 'All About Jazz', Folk Radio UK, Scandanavian Jazz Review 'Salt Peanuts', RTÉ and BBC. In performing with Dylan Rynhart's Fuzzy Logic Ensemble, she has sung with international Jazz artists, Rick Peckham, Tom Arthurs and Florian Ross. She has premiered works by many of the Composers from the Irish Composers Collective & the Contemporary Music Centre and and has performed on BBC Radio with the Choir of Christchurch Cathedral Dublin. She has been featured extensively on Róisín Ingle's Irish Times podcast 'Róisín meets', The Blue of the Night RTÉ Lyric fm and on Bernard Clarke's award winning radio programme 'Nova' on RTÉ Lyric fm. Sue has performed her music at many festivals such as Electric Picnic, Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, Drogheda Arts Festival, Bray Jazz Festival, Waterford New Music Week, Liverpool Irish Festival at the Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room, Jazzy Colors Festival Paris and in the Main auditorium in the National Concert Hall Dublin for the Perspectives Jazz festival as a support act for ECM Trumpeter Tomasz Stanko.

Sue's album 'Signals' was released in 2017 and presented by Note Productions.

Sue recognises support from the Improvised Music Company, Culture Ireland and the Arts Council Ireland.

Awards

Culture Ireland Bursary Award to attend Jazzahead! 2018 Arts Council Ireland Music Bursary Award 2018 Award nomination for Best Jazz Album in the Irish Times Ticket Awards 2014.


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Sue Rynhart at The Cresent Arts Centre

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Sue Rynhart The Crescent Arts Centre jny: Belfast, N. Ireland September 7, 2017 Beatroot, Moving On Music's folk 'n' roots music festival, returned for its third annual outing with a typically eclectic line-up that embraced contemporary folk music of the broadest possible spectrum. With almost as much cross-genre pollination in folk as there is in jazz these days, more and more artists defy facile categorization. Sue Rynhart, who opened the four-night festival ...

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Sue Rynhart: Signals

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Following her impressive debut, Crossings (Songs for Voice and Double Bass) (Self Produced, 2015), Dubliner Sue Rynhart returns with more finely crafted, beguiling songs. Once more, bassist Dan Bodwell lends hefty doses of jazz-inflection, his infectious ostinatos and roaming improvisations shadowing and shading the contours of Rynhart's artfully through-composed pieces. There are more timbral textures on Signals than its predecessor; Rynhart's deft use of mbira, recorders and zither, and Francesco Turrisi's lute and Medieval drum add specific colors that are, ...

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Sue Rynhart: Crossings (Songs For Voice And Double Bass)

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Life is a series of crossings: from ignorance to knowing; fear to courage; love to heartbreak and from one time and place to the next. It's the bare emotions and the mind-sets inherent in such hazy transitions that provide the inspiration for vocalist/composer Sue Rynhart, who is joined here by Dublin-based American double bassist Dan Bodwell in intimate musical communion. The stark setting of voice and bass boldly frames the poetry of Rynhart's lyrics, while the duo explores the rhythmic ...

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'Signals' is a collection of new songs by Sue Rynhart. Drawing on Classical and Jazz traditions, Sue places her precise, delicate voice in the starkest, most revealing of settings. Her songs are both soulful and severe, a fine fusion of the avant-garde and the emotive.

“Songs that sound at once ancient and modern, with echoes of folk and early music, contemporary jazz and the avant garde, recalling Theo Bleckmann, Bjork and a hint of Joni Mitchell.” **** The Irish Times

"Signals really is one of the most exciting, rewarding and stimulating albums I've heard so far this year " - Folk Radio UK

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