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<\/a>Maria is an Irish singer, actor and filmmaker.\u00a0 Together with her husband Kieran Kennedy she runs a small independent record label (Mermaid Records) and they have released seven albums to date.<\/p>\nRecent acting credits include Orphan Black<\/em> (for which she won two Canadian Screen Awards). Most recently she completed filming on Jupiter Ascending<\/em> and A Thousand Times Goodnight<\/em> which won the Special Jury Prize at the Montreal Festival.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Sing<\/em> released in 2012 features duets with Damien Rice, Paul Brady<\/em> and John Prine<\/em>. Hot Press<\/em> described Sing<\/em> as \u201cMaria\u2019s Masterpiece\u201d. Inarguably Sing<\/em> is her most accomplished and accessible work yet, a celebration of \u201cthe power of the voice, the sound a group of people can make when lifting their voices together \u2013 the human act of singing\u201d.<\/p>\n Maria commented \u201cPlaying live gives me more pleasure than almost anything else. Something extra happens when you\u2019re playing live. It\u2019s the best way to share the songs, I think. The expression of them is different and affected by the people who are in the room. You\u2019re sharing the songs with your audience.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Maria has sung live with Snow Patrol<\/em> in 2011 and 2012 and has spent more than two decades performing all over the world from audiences at Glastonbury, Oxygen and the Cambridge Folk Festival, to small, intimate theatres.\u00a0 Maria\u2019s reputation was strong enough to earn her a place singing on the album \u201cThe Lady Sings The Blues\u201d<\/em> alongside Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Tina Turner <\/em>and Annie Lennox.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss your chance to hear the wonderfully talented Maria Doyle Kennedy perform at The Old Courthouse on Friday 23 September. Tickets available from Box Office on 028 9442 8331 or online at www.antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk\/boxoffice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maria Doyle Kennedy will perform in the intimate setting of The Old Courthouse, Antrim on Friday 23 September at 7.30pm. Maria is an Irish singer, actor and filmmaker.\u00a0 Together with her husband Kieran Kennedy she runs a small independent record label (Mermaid Records) and they have released seven albums to date. Recent acting credits include … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12484,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482\/revisions\/12484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}