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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Aindrias de Staic
- City: Galway
- Country: Ireland
My 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
- Email: andrias (@) gmail.com
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: aindestaic
- ▶ Website: http://www.aindrias.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/latchicko
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5dH4bwlEDLJEzA7wm31Uzw
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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 world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
