TONY JAMES SHEVLIN

“Affable and unpretentious” would sum up Tony James Shevlin perfectly,  yet this UK-based Anglo-Irish musician has a musical pedigree that would have gone to a lesser man’s head.  It’s not often you’ll have a solo guitarist playing a small venue who can introduce his next song and casually mention  “this was the International Anthem of Peace chosen by Amnesty International”  or  “I wrote this one for REM”.  However,  as he starts to play,  the tune and lyrics have that rare quality of true originality and you wonder why you’ve never heard of this singer-songwriter before. Tony’s been a professional musician for most of his adult life,  and has performed around the world,  from Europe to Russia,  Africa,  America,  the Middle East,  Australia…  in fact it would be quicker for him to tell you where he hasn’t been.  In between songs he’ll tell you of times spent in a cell with Shane McGowan singing in his ear or some of his many other tales from a life spent in music.

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