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"Time and again, reviewers from Donegal to Dusseldorf will try to explain what it is Tony Maude has that can still a noisy bar, draw crowds in the street or communicate to the present with texts that are centuries old." Irish News. CHILDREN
"Tony has captivated audiences all over the country during his recent national tour..he interacts with his audience and appears to sing to each one personally." Galway International Festival.
"Wonderful! Who said Shakespeare was boring and dead?lovely. What a nice way of bringing it to a wider audience." Sean Rafferty B.B.C. Radio Ulster & B.B.C. Radio 3. Widely-acclaimed children's entertainer …has the ability to draw people into his world." Irish News. POETRY
"Modern day minstrel Maude makes merry by setting sonnets to music, be it country, trad-folk or blues. Poetry plays a large part in his proceedings, but at the core is his uncanny ability to see inside a mood and act accordingly" Time Out, London."The poetic magic of Tony Maude, it must be said, also came across in his poem recitations." Rheinischer Post. "A lovely poem…has left us all breathless." Belfast Community Radio. "The work of a poet who can write a good song." Daily Telegraph. MUSIC
"Wind in the Willows, Shakespeare's sonnet 18-Wonderful tunes, filled with melancholy but often bubbling with humour….always uncannily expressive, thus awaking the feeling that the text were written for the music and not the other way round." Rheinischer Post.
"Many, many original ideas..more poetic can music not be." Westdeutsche Zeitung. FESTIVALS
Glastonbury 2009 - Fields of Avalon, Edinburgh Festival, Skagen (Denmark), Cork Arts, Galway International Children's Festival, Belfast Arts, Donegal Arts, Kerry International Living Writers, Italian Summer Festivals: Folkest 2006, 2009 & 2011. Tratti Festival, Faenza - 3 appearances, including July 2011.FOLK SCENE
"Where do you normally play?…I don't understand it…why aren't you top of the bill at Sidmouth?" Bracknell Folk Club (Organiser)
"The best solo act we've had this year, in fact, for years." Bassildon Folk Club (Organiser) RECORDINGS
"ALMOST TRUE": "exceptionally good, not only in content but also in performance, musical balance and presentation…a freshness and intelligence of approach is felt from the outset."
Daily Telegraph."NO TIME FOR SORROW." Autogram Records. CD. 1995…" some great songs as well (as this poem). B.B.C. Radio Ulster. PUBLICATIONS
"SEVEN MIRRORS FOR THE MOON" A book of riddles.
"The guitarist was the person of all to have sung alone without a step, he was superb, he brought hope in the air and he had me going home with much enthusiasm." From a poem by a member of the Clare Youth Centre. "He seems to inspire journalists to abandon the cliches of their profession and search for something altogether different and difficult to express." Colin Harper-Irish News. |