JOACHIM COODER with RAYNA GELLERY & Special Guest TAYLOR LALLY
Friday 26 April | 8pm (Doors 7.30pm)
Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Joachim Cooder is one of America's dedicated musical pioneers.

“I grew up in a household very much alive with Irish music. My dad Ry Cooder, collaborated with Paddy Maloney and the Chieftains, so I experienced that sound up close and let it sink in and influence me as a player and songwriter. One of the last times I saw Paddy we mentioned my dad’s people were the O’Learys and he said, "the O’Learys are from Cork, so this trip is a bit of a pilgrimage to find my Cork O’Learys! Come on down!”

Joachim Cooder performed on now-legendary recordings with his father Ry Cooder like the landmark Buena Vista Social Club sessions. He has played with Ali Farka Touré, who inspired Cooder to take up the mbira.

'Dreamer’s Motel' (2024) builds on the success of ‘Over That Road I’m Bound’ (2020 Nonesuch Records) and features Ry Cooder, Rayna Gellert, Juliette Commagere, Sam Gendel, Glenn Patscha, Amir Yaghmai, Dan Gellert, and Vieux Farka Touré.

Uncut calls the album “..warm, uplifting and quietly spectacular” . Mojo said, 'there’s a reassuringly Cooderesque familiarity to it. Perfect late-night listening accompanied by a tumbler of something strong.” BBC Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe said it was “one of the most intriguing releases we’ve heard this year.”

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Born in '76, Joachim Cooder grew up surrounded by music alongside his father, who took him on the road at an early age on drums, playing live and in the studio.

He has toured, shared stages and recordings with Johnny Cash, Ali Farka Touré, Mavis Staples, Steve Earle, John Lee Hooker, Dr. John, Nick Lowe and Buena Vista Social Club. And, produced albums for Julia Commagere and Carly Ritter, composed for film and collaborated on music for dance.

A travelling musical soul that never stops searching for new ways to express his life-long sonic adventures, Joachim Cooder's lifelong pursuit of merging new sounds with a far-reaching grasp of the past, is still on the move.