Mundy and guests to rock Beggy's

Beggy's Bar is continuing to copper fasten its position as the best live music pub in the North East with Mundy performing at the venue this Friday 26th February.

Beggy's help up and coming local musicians to pursue their dreams by providing them the opportunity to play alongside the best musical talent in the country. They held a competition for young local singer songwriters for 25 minute slots to support Mundy this Friday. The winners were Pauly Fagan and Carla Hilton Mulligan who were selected by a crowd vote on the night. The standard of music was exceptionally high from all the performers who competed.

Pauly Fagan was born and raised in Navan. A talented singer and songwriter, he grew up with music in his blood, influenced by his parents love of music. His unique booming voice has entertained wherever he goes. 2015 was a busy year for Pauly recording new music. Pauly is the host of the 'O' Sessions which promote Irish musicians and their original music at Boyles in Slane.

Carla is a Navan native. She is a singer song writer with a powerful classic female voice. She will perform a number of her own songs and some classic female anthems including Dolly Partons ‘Jolene’.

On Saturday, Beggy's will be answering Irelands call and showing the hugely important annual battle between Ireland and England. On Saturday night there is another brilliant gig with local legends Toby Creegan and Martin rocking with all the classics.

Sunday sees the weekly trad session from 6pm with ‘The Feckers’ playing the fireside sessions from 9.30pm.

NEXT SINGER SONGWRITER COMPETITION TO SUPPORT CHRISTY DIGNAM and JOE JEWELL OF ASLAN

Beggys is running our singer/songwriter competition again on Friday 11th March for the chance to support Christy Dignam and Joe Jewell of ASLAN fame on Friday 18th March 18th. This is a huge opportunity to take to the stage and perform before one of Ireland's greatest ever singers. To enter, call Stephen on 086 8074560 or go to our Facebook site and message them.

Tickets are available for MUNDY and CHRISTY DIGNAM AND JOE JEWELL of ASLAN from BEGGYS BAR, www.liveatbeggys.com, on ticketstop.ie or email stephenbeggy@gmail.com.

About BEGGYS BAR

BEGGYS BAR, located on Bridge Street Navan is the premier live music venue in Leinster. BEGGYS BAR pride ourselves on having the best live musicians perform in BEGGYS. There is live music 6 nights a week, see (www.liveatbeggys.com) for details. Sunday nights are one of the highlights of the week with a Trad session every Sunday at 7.00 pm followed by, the hugely popular in house session band, ‘The Feckers’ at 9.00.

Some of the famous acts who have performed in BEGGYS recently include Mary Coughlan, Don Baker, The Geddes, The Lost Brothers, Pilgrim Street, Wheatus, Willie Byrne (Navan's star of Jesus Christ Superstar in Londons West End) and many more.

BEGGYS are famous for their house band - The BEGGY EXPERIMENT – made up of the best musical talent in the North East. The BEGGY EXPERIMENT and special guests perform every month in BEGGYS.

In August 2015 the first ‘FOLK, BLUES and BEYOND FESTIVAL’ was held in BEGGYS BAR, NAVAN. The highlight of this weekend festival was WILLIE BYRNE guesting with the BEGGY EXPERIMENT. This gig was described as the best gig NAVAN had seen in decades.

MUNDY

Following Jellylegs, Mundy went on to release the multi-platinum record 24 Star Hotel, with hit tracks ‘July’ and ‘Mexico’ becoming firm favourites. Raining Down Arrows, which hit the #1 slot in the Irish Album Charts, came next and was recorded in the musically revered city of Austin, Texas. His first live album Live and Confusion followed, recorded at a storming and sold out Vicar St show. Galway Girl was recorded as an encore and went on to become the best selling single and most downloaded song 2 years in a row in Ireland (2007 / 2008). His 4th studio album, Strawberry Blood, followed in 2009 and saw Mundy touring Ireland, Australia and the UK once more. Shuffle was released in 2011 and was a gorgeous ode to some of Mundy’s most favourite songwriters. It featured his versions of songs by greats like Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Paul Simon and Gillian Welch, to name a few.

Since then, Mundy has been busy. He’s been touring the US, performing at The Royal Albert Hall – not to mention the small matter of performing for Barack Obama both on his Irish visit, and at his home in The White House.

Mundy met Youth again a couple of years back and they decided to collaborate together for the first time since ‘95, winding up in Youth’s studio in Spain where they got to work. Youth’s is one of the most experienced and talented UK producers, having worked with the likes of The Verve, Pink Floyd, Culture Club, Reverend & The Makers, Echo & The Bunnymen and Paul McCartney. The line-up for the recording included Mundy on guitar and vocals, Youth on bass, Eddie Banda on drums and Michael Rendall on keys, with some extra guitar lines from Simon Tong (The Verve, Gorillaz, Damon Albarn) and Michael Wadada (Suns Of Arqa) on guitar.

Pauly Fagan

Pauly was born and raised in Navan, on 7th April 1985. A talented singer and songwriter, he grew up with music in his blood. Pauly was greatly influenced by his parent’s love for music and was introduced to it from an early age. Pauly and all of his brothers were trained to play at least one instrument and also how to read music. His unique booming voice has entertained his friends and colleagues wherever he goes. His writing ability surprises many as he writes song after song often inspired by love; won, lost and observed.

2015 was a been busy year for Pauly recording new music. He loves the lads he is playing with and is starting to perform in Ireland. He is proud to still live in Navan and appreciates all the support he receives. 2016 will be a busy year with more new music being recorded and shared.

Pauly is also the host of the 'O' Sessions which promote Irish musicians and their original music at Boyles in Slane.