Anthony Toner In Concert: Celebrating 25 Years of Songwriting

The Linen Hall is delighted to welcome back acclaimed songwriter and guitarist Anthony Toner for a pre-Christmas solo acoustic performance.

It’s a special year for Anthony, as he marks 25 years of songwriting with the publication of Distance & Love, a book-length collection of his finest lyrics, published with funding support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

This collection includes his personal selection from a quarter of a decade of songs, dating from 2021 and the writing that led to his debut album Eventually, which included ‘Cousins at Funerals’, right up to the latest collection, 2025’s Long Long Way.

For his show in The Linen Hall, Anthony will be performing excerpts from a joyous back catalogue filled with well-loved songs like ‘Sailortown’, ‘The Road to Fivemiletown’, ‘Cousins at Funerals’ and many more. Expect all the usual hallmarks of an Anthony Toner show – an intimate evening of acoustic music, superb fingerstyle guitar playing, stories from the road, some well-chosen cover versions, a few readings from the new collection – and poems from some of Anthony’s favourite poets.

Press Quotes:

Glasgow Americana Festival – online review: ‘It’s fair to say that Toner was the find of the festival. Truly engaging, humorous, a nimble guitarist and no slouch in the song writing stakes, Toner was a blast’.

Audience member, The Green Note in Camden: ‘A dazzling and moving evening… like watching a series of beautiful short films’.

Folk & Tumble, online review of Long Long Way: ‘The album is filled with little gems… there’s so much to admire here… a wonderful piece of work. So many layers to the writing, that reveals more and more on each listen – file under poetic excellence!’

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