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| Una on Shakira's Sale El Sol world tour |
Well the piece has started trending on my Blog again as the
advert is being reprised on TV. In the meanwhile the deeply talented Una’s
career is going from strength to strength despite my Blog! Here is Una (and Lizzie Ball) performing at the great musical
shrine in London known as Ronnie Scott's. This is what she does in between backing
Shakira and playing with Balkan Bears!
Una shaking her booty on Shakira's Sale El Sol world tour
Una often appears as a talented session musician or vocalist on other artist’s tours or records. She is a violist, violinist and vocalist now based in London. Born in Cork, Ireland Una began her music studies at the Cork School of Music at the age of 4. She won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London where she was awarded the Wolfson Trust award by the Academy, a Royal Philharmonia Martin Musical Scholarship Award, and was a string finalist in the RTE Millennium Musician of the Future Competition before graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in Performance.
Una often appears as a talented session musician or vocalist on other artist’s tours or records. She is a violist, violinist and vocalist now based in London. Born in Cork, Ireland Una began her music studies at the Cork School of Music at the age of 4. She won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London where she was awarded the Wolfson Trust award by the Academy, a Royal Philharmonia Martin Musical Scholarship Award, and was a string finalist in the RTE Millennium Musician of the Future Competition before graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in Performance.
She is currently Shakira's solo violinist / backing vocalist
/ multi-instrumentalist on Sale El Sol world tour. Una has performed and toured
with many major artists including Gnarls Barkley, Moby, Take That, P Diddy, The
Killers, Patrick Wolf and is the singer on the Specsavers 'Sheep' advert. She
has a particular interest in cross overs between Folk Music traditions and
regularly collaborates as special guest with BBC World Music Award winners
Terrafolk and is the lead vocalist/violinist in Una and The Balkan Bears.
Here is Una Palliser’s MySpace page and website;
And you can “Like” her (why wouldn’t you!) on Facebook;
And follow her on Twitter (I do! @daithaic) @unapalliser
For the story of the song Mo Ghile Mear (My Gallant Darling)
featured in the Specsavers Ad and versions by Sting and Mary Black see;
Here is Una singing Mo Ghile Mear with The Balkan Bears,
Bostjan Gombac, Janez Dovc and Goran Rukavina at Ronnie Scott’s in London on
their first ever tour (Ireland / London)in May 2010. As I said Una is a great talent and
with my well known gift of Prophecy I am tipping her as one to watch for the
future. I am also doing this to show I can be inclusive. Una (who is a scion of
a talented musical family) hails from Cork where we, in another city, used to
joke that at the train station they only ever sold single tickets to Dublin! Unlike
Una, I’m not sure that joke travels well!
There is more on music and things musical (inevitably with
an Irish tinge) see Music Blogs on my sidebar. My personal musical ambition, as
one who couldn’t hold a note to save my life, is to bring out CD’s of different
artists covering one Irish standard – hence “Danny Boys” “Raglan Roads” “Ghile
Mears.” !
See also; Danny Boy
On Raglan Road
Is it just me or is there something electric about the Ball and Palliser video?
ReplyDeleteMind you, I also enjoyed the saw. Must take it up sometime.