KILRUSH’s Teresa Carrig will launch her second album this Friday in her native town.
‘Dancing Solo’ is the name of Teresa’s second album and follows on from the success of ‘Roots of Love’ which was launched in July 2023 at the inaugural Vandeleur Festival.
Spin South West DJ, Eoghain Fitzgerald will help Teresa to launch ‘Dancing Solo’ at The Galleon in Kilrush this Friday (February 13th) at 10pm.
Ten tracks feature on the album which she recorded at Studio 68 in Limerick. She began working on the album in 2023, “this is two years in the making”.
From a farming background three miles outside of Kilrush, Teresa credits her mother Bernie for helping her love of music to blossom. “She would have played piano when she was younger, she always loved music, she passed the love of music onto all of her seven children. They are all singers, Michael the eldest wouldn’t have a note in his head but the others all have a voice but never use it, they can all sing but they don’t, I was the only one to venture down that route”.
As the fourth of the seven children, Teresa is younger than Michael, Hughie and Josie but above Maurice, Bernie and Sally when it comes to seniority in the Gilligan family.
Married to MJ, they have three children, Cathal, Aoife and Sinead. She works as a special needs assistant at St Senan’s NS in Kilrush and has been part of the staff for twenty two years.
Speaking to The Clare Echo, Teresa said she is “really excited” for Friday’s launch and acknowledged Anthony Lillis of The Galleon for hosting and Eoghain Fitz for agreeing to play in Kilrush. “I’m delighted with the final product and the way it turned out, there’s four or five songs that I’m particularly very happy with it. On Friday I’m also releasing the single ‘It’s Not Personal’ and it is one of the better works I have ever produced”.
On the differences between ‘Dancing Solo’ and her debut album, Teresa said, “For this album because I started finding my feet on writing and singing, it is a bit more of a confident album, it is a more me album. With Roots of Love I was feeling my way but with this one I’m a bit more confident and more assured with this album”.
