April 22nd 2026 Waverley Album Listening Party Fundraiser With Free Live Music From Nuala Honan
A monthly music fundraiser event for Dorothy House Hospice, now celebrating its 50th anniversary, featuring classic album playback using donated hi-fi equipment and occasional live music.
Originally from rural outback Australia, Nuala Honan was awarded the South Australian Music Industry Award for Most Outstanding Female Vocalist before moving to England (aged just 19) to be closer to her family’s Irish musical heritage and an adventurous music scene. Now part of Bristol’s vibrant music community, she has previously performed for us at The Waverley alongside Samuel Fox (aka Mossfellow) at our 1st anniversary event in August 2025. She returns to showcase her own 2020 album ‘Doubt & Reckoning’, chosen by BBC6Music as ‘Album Of The Day’ back then and supported by DJs Lauren Laverne and Tom Robinson. We will listen to the album in full on vinyl and Nuala will perform some tracks from this live along with some new work-in-progress songs destined for a new album. Nuala will be happy to discuss her music and will have copies of her album to purchase.
Alongside this Nuala chose Jeff Buckley’s 1994 debut and only studio album ‘Grace’ for us to listen to and discuss – a truly classic, if perhaps tragic, record. Jeff was the subject of a celebrated 2025 documentary film ‘It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley.’
We will finish the evening by remembering the music of Prince, who left us 10 years ago on April 21st, 2016, by playing a couple of tracks from his 1991 multi-platinum hit double-LP ‘Diamonds & Pearls.’
As usual all are welcome to this event, which is FREE to attend, but voluntary donations to the work of the Hospice are of course very much appreciated.
For further details contact albumlisteningevent@gmail.com
