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Name:
Aindrias de Staic
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City/Place:
Galway
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Country:
Ireland
Life & Work
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Bio:
Born in Galway Ireland, Aindrias's rich 'n' rare style of fiddle playing is as unique to the west of Ireland as his story-telling, antics and humor.
Aindrias is well known internationally for his one man theatre show "Around the World on 80 quid" which won Best Solo Show at New Zealand Fringe and rave reviews thoughout Australia. "Around the World on 80 quid" also got Aindrias the nomination for Most Outstanding Performer at the Dunedin Fringe Festival 2008.
"The year I got Younger" was initially written as a spoken word novel loosely based on Aindrias own experience in Australia. Aindrias joined thousands of other Irish travelers to enjoy the sun and the 1year working holiday visa in Aus. The story was later fashioned into a one-man theatre show, which was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award at Edinburgh Fringe in 2008, and won rave reviews.
Later, holiday video, found footage and other scenes were edited into a performative documentary, directed by Gen Bailey with new music composed by Aindrias, who also produced the short film. "The Year I got Younger" went on to screen internationally and won BEST IRISH SHORT DOCO at Galway Film Fleadh as well as Best Documentary at Open Channel's Love Your Work event in Melbourne.
Other Theatre shows include "Summer I Did The Leaving" which won the Three Weeks Editors Award at Edinburgh 2009.
Star of stage and screen, Aindrias de Staic has enjoyed recent success in film, music and theatre. has enjoyed various other acting roles in Film and Tv including the role John the drug dealer in Ras na Rún (TG4), ) an Argentine patient The Clinic (RTE) a street trader in Neighbours, and has been cast as a diverse range of characters in various feature films including "Simon The Gypsy Fiddler" in feature movie "Further we Search" by Darias Devas, as well as mixed roles in the Magma Films: Green Freedom(1998), Summer of my Flying Saucer (2007). Aindiras recently played the lead role of Michael in "Moment of Grace", which won the Bright Spark Award at Trop Fest 2010.
"The Year that I got Younger" - The show, written and performed by Aindrias was Nominated for The Malcom Hardee Award at Edinburgh Fringe this year. The award is for comic originality in performance, and is made in honour of the late Malcom Hardee, god father of Alternative comedy. The short trailer movie of the same title, written and produced by Aindiras to promote a larger project, "The Year I Got Younger" (dir Gen Bailey 2008) won BEST SHORT Doco at the Galway Film Fleadh 2008.
Aindrias grew up primarily in the West of Ireland. But, by his teenage years, the globe-roving youth would be as familiar with the nearby Mayo Gaeltacht as he would with the Spanish speaking Mission district of San Francisco. From Hobo to Boho via Soho, this multilingual traveling entertainer has delighted audiences around the world with his unique humour, lively storytelling and captivating music.
Originators of Gyp-Hop (Gaelic gypsy hip-hop!), Aindrias and his band, The Latchikós, deliver a sound heavy with wild fiddle playing, driving Gaelic beats and comical lyrics, combined to give new sound in the colourful tapestry of World music.
They regularly perform at major festivals and popular music venues. During 2015, The Latchikós brought their dance music pandemonium to multiple stages at the Electric Picnic, the Body & Soul and the Tuam Trad Festivals, rounding out the year with shows in Dublin, Galway, several appearances during Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Sligo and the Quicksilver World Surfing Championships in Hossegor, France.
In 2014, Aindrias and The Latchikós played large events countrywide, including the Body & Soul Festival, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Sligo, a Night Circus Extravaganza in Salthill, the Tuam Trad Festival and the Electric Picnic - a performance which was featured on the Irish television cultural and artistic entertainment programme, "Imeall."
Earlier that year, The Latchikós took their rare and witty combination of sham-poetry, blues harmonica, and gypsy violin to eastern Australia, delivering a legendary New Year’s Eve performance at Woodford Folk Festival, plus shows at the Illawarra Folk Festival, Sydney and Melbourne. They also launched their hit single song, "Off to Bondi Junction," with a packed St. Patrick's Day season tour of Sydney, Bondi Beach, Melbourne and a guest appearance with Damien Dempsey. "Off to Bondi Junction" first became a popular YouTube hit, showing a humorous contrast between the wet west of Ireland and sunny Sydney beaches. The song reached No. 2 in Ireland's folk music charts as the band appeared on several television and radio shows, including SKY TV's "Up for the Match" and the first ever broadcast of TG4's "Roisin" which focused on Australian immigration.
Starting out as a busking band in Galway City, The Latchikós gained international popularity in 2013 after supporting the Saw Doctors on their US tour. Following their selection for the Folk Alliance showcase in Toronto, The Latchikós exploded onto the national and international festival circuit; appearing at Glastonbury, the Main Stage at Body & Soul, Calgary Folk Music Festival, Halifax International Busker Festival, playing alongside 'The Waterboys' at The Vancouver Folk Festival and lastly returning to Ireland for the 10th anniversary of The Electric Picnic.
Over his career, Aindrias has collaborated on many musical projects. In 2015, he co-wrote and appeared as front man in the Rolling Tav Revue's wildly popular YouTube and chart hit protest song, "No Privatisation - Irish Water, Irish Nation," which they performed in front of a massive crowd in Dublin at the December 2014 Irish Water protest.
Contact Information
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Email:
aindrias (@) gmail.com
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
"... exquisite, picaresque. Rarely has storytelling been so foot-tappingly funny."
- Nick Awde, Theatre Guide, London
"A wild-eyed shock of Celtic unpredictability, the man's got talent and humour in abundance."
- Malcolm Jack, The Scotsman
"The performance is half seanchaí, half shaman, half 'Fiddler of Dooney' with a whallop of Flann O’Brien thrown into the mix for good measure."
- Philip Dunne, State.ie
"A demented Trad trio whipping an already frothing crowd into a frenzy ... highlight of the festival ... The Latchikós had steam coming off bald men’s heads."
- Mark Graham, The Irish Times
"... We just love their energy ... their repertoire includes political songs, spoken word and some of the best damn fiddling on the planet from actor, musician and storyteller Aindrias de Staic ..."
- Francois Marchand, The Vancouver Sun
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The Integrated Global Creative Economy, uncoiling from this sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix.
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—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
www.salvadorbahiabrazil.com
Conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to Havana and the provinces of Cuba to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
Sodré
*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed up the irony in this sequence by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" Hence A Massa, anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil, which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until Sodré was silenced, threatened with death and forced into exile...
And hence a platform whereupon all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of degree of fame, location, or the censor.
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome (seat of the Integrated Global Creative Economy* and where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
Assis Valente's (of Santo Amaro, Bahia) "Brasil Pandeiro" filmed by Betão Aguiar
Betão Aguiar
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
*Darius Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and lives between Washington D.C. and Salvador da Bahia.
Between 2000 and 2004 he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Mozambique and Angola. In that capacity, Darius led a team which generated $150 million in annual lending to Mozambique, including support for public private partnerships in infrastructure which catalyzed over $1 billion in private investment.
Darius was an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he worked closely with the U.S. Treasury and the IMF to establish a framework to avoid debt repudiation and to restructure private commercial debt in Brazil and Chile.
He taught Economics at the University of Maryland and was a consultant to KPMG on infrastructure projects in Latin America.
Replete with Brazilian greatness, but we listened to Miles Davis and Jimmy Cliff in there too; visitors are David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR/WXPN
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
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