LAST year, 2FM brought DJ Jenny Greene and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra together for the standout act of Electric Picnic and a sellout night at Dublin’s 3Arena.
This year, 2FM – the Sound of the Nation – is taking this live 1990s experience across the country and will be back at Dublin’s 3Arena on Friday, April 21 before tearing the roof off the tent at the Marquee, Cork on Saturday, June 17.
Standing alongside Jenny Greene will be Cork-based singer Gemma Sugrue and conductor Gavin Murphy.
Classics from the original set will be delivered along with unbelievably exciting new arrangements which will be a surprise that will be kept just for the night.
At the Electric Picnic last year they played to a mobbed Rankin’s Wood. During the rehearsal session, word went around Stradbally that something special was on the way and by the time of the performance the tent was packed, with queues of people outside desperate to get in. They topped the list for many as the highlight of the weekend.
Last November, in response to phenomenal demand, the same team came together for a full gig and it was the hottest ticket in town. Numbers like ‘Rhythm is a Dancer’, ‘Children’, ‘Not Over Yet’, ‘Everybody’s Free’ and ‘Insomnia’ had a packed 3Arena on their feet for the night.
A whole new audience discovered the thrill of seeing and hearing an orchestra in full flight and who better to introduce them than the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, voted the World’s Favourite Orchestra in an international poll in 2015?
Doors will open at 7pm with the gig set to start at 8pm in Dublin’s 3Arena on Friday, April 21.
Tickets (€49.50) are on sale now through Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.