Composer, conductor, actor, artist and singer-songwriter – Julie Feeney has a solid claim to be the Renaissance woman of the Irish arts scene. Andrew Hamilton chats to the Choice Music Prize winning Galway woman about her latest album and finding her classical feet in a rock and pop world.
I think Kermit the Frog said it best – sometimes, it’s just not easy being green. While the similarities between our Kermie and Julie Feeney might not be immediately apparent, the two, surprisingly, do share some common ground.
Like Kermit, Feeney is a bit of a one off. As a classically trained musician, composer and vocalist, her CV might well have been rejected from rock and pop circles with one word stamped across the cover letter – overqualified.
In the recent past you see, classical and pop music and have a slightly stogy relationship. And like young teens at a disco, they have stared at each other from afar, each unsure of what to make of the other or what, if anything, to do next. There in the middle of that dance floor stands Julie Feeney.
“I have always felt in an odd place. I’m like the girl who was really really tall or someone who is tiny, or whatever. It’s about getting to that point when you can say to yourself that this is actually the way I am. I am 6 foot 7, that is the way that I came into the world,” she says.
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