Frankenstein Bolts, Gayle Murphy and Yellow Bellows

Frankenstein Bolts, Gayle Murphy and Yellow BellowsFollowing a unique two-day song-writing workshop with CAMHS Wexford, Justin Cullen and Gayle Murphy, musician educators with Music Generation Wexford will perform a live gig with Frankenstein Bolts and the Yellow Bellows for young people, families, friends and a wider audience at The Presentation Arts Centre.Time: 7.30 pm Date: 13th April 2023 Price: €10Justin Cullen is a songwriter and recording engineer based in Wexford. Lead singer and songwriter with Irish band Frankenstein Bolts. He has a background in sound recording and editing in music and film-sound and has scored and composed for numerous Irish independent film releases. Justin also delivers workshops on song-writing, movie making, studio recording and stop animation to teens and adults in various schools and arts centres around the country.Gayle Murphy hails from Monamolin Co. Wexford. She has played guitar from a very young age and her passion for music grew through the years extending to Drums, Bass and Keyboard. She has performed in several bands over the years and is currently in an acoustic 2 piece "All Imperfect Things”, with fellow Music Generation Wexford Musician Educator Karen Dunbar. She has been teaching private guitar lessons for almost 20 years and has been with the Music Generation Wexford Team for 4 years teaching Ukulele, Singing and Songwriting. She travelled to Fairfax VA to study Orff Schulwerk at George Mason University summer of 2022 where her passion for confidence building through music grew even more.Frankenstein Bolts are a dream pop band from Wexford. Their music ranges from breezy summer pop to effects-drenched indie rock. Over the past few years, they have released two albums, an EP and numerous singles. Both albums were very well received by the Irish music press and made several end-of-year best-of lists. Frankenstein Bolts have played main stage slots at many of Ireland's biggest festivals including Electric Picnic, Other Voices and Castlepalooza. Over the past couple of years, the band used the lockdown time to write new songs and develop their sound. This time away from live shows gave them a chance to explore new instruments and write enough material for another two albums. Yellow Bellows is a teenage singing group. The group is led by Music Generation Wexford musician educators Diarmuid Comerford & Anita Mahon. The group have performed in Clayton Whites Hotel for the ETBI Principals and Deputy Principals conference and have performed in the Presentation Centre, Enniscorthy. They meet every Friday from 4:30-6pm at the Presentation Arts Centre, Enniscorthy.Music Generation Wexford is part of Music Generation, Ireland’s National Performance Music Education programme. Locally, the programme is co-funded by the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board and Wexford County Council. Nationally, initiated by Music Network it is co-funded by U2, the Ireland Funds and the Department of Education.