Kickstand Productions Presents: Amble w/ Special Guests TBA

Name: Kickstand Productions Presents: Amble w/ Special Guests TBA
Start: 2025-09-15T19:00:00-05:00
Location: The Magic Bag

Schedule

Mon, 15 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Magic Bag | Ferndale, MI

Please Note:
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Event Information:
Limited Seating. First Come, First Served. What a difference a year can make. In the summer of 2023, the Irish folk trio, Amble - Co Longfords Ross McNerney, Co Leitrims Robbie Cunningham and Co Sligos Oisin McCaffrey had known each other for what the Irish call a wet day when a phone call from Los Angeles changed their lives. They werent to know it then, but their day jobs (respectively, a secondary school teacher, a primary school teacher, and a data scientist) were soon to end.Ambles jump from relative obscurity to signing to a major label isnt the usual story, however. There were no canny strategies for world domination, no ruthless plans to undercut the opposition, no aching ambitions to match a billion streams. Rather, there was (and is) a less is more approach within which the most important elements are the music and the wholesome enjoyment of playing it.I was teaching in Dublin for a couple of years, says Robbie Cunningham (vocals/guitar). I always wanted to get into music, but I never dared to do it on my own. Through social media, I knew of Oisin, who in his spare time was playing in pubs in Galway, but when he moved to Dublin I reached out to him and asked if he wanted to play some tunes together. The goal at that stage was to get into pubs, start playing music some John Prine covers and stuff like that - and get a few free drinks out of it.In the autumn of 2022, Robbie and Oisin (vocals/guitar) contacted Ross McNerney (guitar/mandolin), whose addition to the group configuration completed the puzzle. The morning after the first show Ross had played with his new friends was a pivotal one. He messaged us the next day, recalls Robbie, telling us the music we had played was too good not to pursue. From that day on, a more disciplined structure was applied: a band name, no more pub gigs, and a proper ticketing format for shows. After that night playing with them and having listened to the songs they wrote, says Ross, a more experienced musician than his new friends, I felt that things needed to be done as correctly as possible.Amble by name, amble by nature? You only have to hear the music to appreciate just how accurate this is. Ambles tunes conjure up truisms instead of clichs: Across their forthcoming EP, The Commons (arriving November 1st), tracks such as latest singles Little White Chapel The Commons, plus Thoughts Flood Back to You, One Mans Love, and Luke the Navigator present indelible marks of deft rural-related storytelling and a musicality that is equally traditional and current. Unusually for a contemporary group, all three members are songwriters. Every one of our songs tells a story. We had no ambition to add bells or whistles or anything production-wise, says Robbie. It was more like were putting a microphone in a room, recording the music, and thats it.

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