Duke Special

Duke Special is a songwriter and performer based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He's a piano-based songwriter with a romantic style and a warm, distinctly accented voice. His live performances have a theatrical style inspired by Vaudeville and music hall, and often incorporate 78s played on an old-fashioned gramophone, or sound effects from a transistor radio.

On this very special tour, Duke Special will be performing songs and music based on the poetry of this influential and renowned Belfast writer, Michael Longley. Longley’s poems are full of gentleness, honesty, mischief and love and are peppered with a cast of artists, animals, flowers, friends and long forgotten soldiers. As ever, Duke Special is mining a new seam of inspiration, hunting for treasures and what it means to be a human being.