Mark Geary: In The Time of Locusts

Schedule

Fri Jun 28 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

The Back Room | Berkeley, CA

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Please join us for an evening with Irish singer/songwriter/guitarist Mark Geary, making his Back Room debut.
About this Event

After moving from Ireland to New York over twenty years ago, Mark Geary honed his craft and sang alongside the best of them, including the late Jeff Buckley. With six studio and three live albums, touring and live performances are still Mark’s lifeblood. Geary’s sound is stripped back, revealing a life laid bare of human emotional frailty, failed relationships, tenderness, hurt, making amends, desire and parting. His treasured guitar collection is always close at hand, each set up in a different tuning.

Geary has featured on bills with musicians as diverse as Glen Hansard, John Prine, Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, Coldplay and The Frames amongst others plus extensive headlining tours in Europe, the US and Switzerland. He has composed the full score for three films and has many songs featured in films and TV programs. His latest singles have a quietness that is both cathartic and evocative, setting a new path for Geary's sound. Beautiful, dark and haunting, they feature deftly interwoven layers of acoustic guitars.

Mark has toured both the north and central regions of Italy as well as Ireland, where he sold out ‘Upstairs’ in Whelan’s and Coughlans in Cork in December 2023. Mark’s new album, In The Time Of Locusts, was released in February 2024 to critical acclaim. The Irish Times said the album "brims with such thoughtful, gracefully melodic songs that too often your gaze drifts across to some imagined horizon and gets stuck there."

Tickets are $20 general admission; $15 for students with ID. Children under 12 are free. Advance tickets are available here, or if the show is not sold out, you may purchase your tickets at the door before the show.

Doors open one half hour before show time. We accept cash or Venmo only at the door.

The Back Room is an all-ages, BYOB (for those 21+) space, dedicated to (mostly) acoustic music of all kinds. You are welcome to bring your own food and beverages. The venue is ADA accessible. If you need more information or have any questions, please call us: #510-381-1997.

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Thank you for your support!

Please note: Although masks are no longer required, we strongly encourage their use to keep everyone safe in our intimate space.


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The Back Room, 1984 Bonita Avenue, Berkeley, United States

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USD 15.00 to USD 20.00

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