Dolores delighted to be back
Caherlistrane singer Dolores Keane has embarked on a national concert tour which will see her play the Salthill Hotel on Sunday, July 20.
The tour comes in the wake of her battles with alcoholism and cancer which she spoke about frankly about on the RTÉ TV documentary, A Storm in the Heart.
Dolores’ national tour, also entitled A Storm in the Heart features a top-class band as well as support from fellow folk singer and Galwegian, Don Stiffe.
Dolores, who has performed definitive versions of songs such as Galway Bay, Caledonia, the Nelson Mandela tribute Lion in a Cage, Far Away in Australia, Ramblin’ Irishman and Storm in My Heart is delighted to be back on stage.
She has been working with a voice coach to ensure that her voice is in the best condition possible, following her cancer treatment which included chemotherapy and radium. The treatment had noticeable physical side effects, causing her to lose her hair, and it also impacted on her vocal cords.
But, having got the all-clear last February, Dolores is “ready for this tour” and just wants “to be up there with the band”.
“I got the all-clear from the cancer back last Valentine’s Day,” says Dolores who has also talked about her battle with alcohol.
“It is another awful disease that has to be treated as a disease,” she says of alcoholism. “I would be saying to myself ‘sure I only had a few’ but of course the reality was different. But now that is changed and I feel very positive.”
For this tour, Dolores is delighted to be working alongside promoter Kieran Cavanagh with whom she has worked closely in the past.
Dolores Keane’s A Storm in the Heart tour is in Galway’s Salthill Hotel on Sunday, July 20. Tickets €20 from ticketmaster.ie or from the Salthill Hotel 091 522711.