Headlining EAF LIVE Saturday 18th November
The Live Lounge - On stage - 10pm - 11pm
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The Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Ant Thomaz, frontman of the acclaimed funk-driven group DOPESICKFLY, has released his first EP 520.
As a winner of the Celtic Connections Festival’s Open Stage competition, he has gone on to rub shoulders with some legendary names, supporting the likes of Mànran, Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Roy Ayers, Kool & The Gang, Eddie Reader, Shaun Ryder’s Black Grape, Todd Terry, Big Country, and The Sugar Hill Gang, and he has hosted Colour Classical.
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He has also collaborated with artists including Helen Marnie (Ladytron), Karen Dunbar, Shaka Loves You Nimbus Sextet, and Colonel Mustard & The Djion 5.
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Thomaz has been compared to Lenny Kravitz, Seal, Gregory Porter, Ben Harper, Tracey Chapman, or even Anderson Paak in his dexterous vocal delivery and stirring compositions, but he remains a uniquely original talent.
“Thomaz is one of the critical voices of his generation... His ballads are vulnerable and touching... his music is a modern-day masterpiece.”
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Ant will headline EAF LIVE on Saturday night with his band.