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Juliet Turner

 

"Turner is a natural at encapsulating a marriage between folk and the singer-songwriter genre"

- Belfast Telegraph

 

"one of the most intriguing of Irish female song writers arriving several years ago with a guitar and a batch of brittle, poignant songs; her broad accent and even broader outlook; her bitter-sweet tastes all marking her as one to watch"

- The Irish Times

 

 

Juliet Turner, who is from Tummery, near Omagh, County Tyrone, stumbled into making music. She was given a guitar for her fifteenth birthday and met a poet who told her to start writing her own songs. In 1996 whilst at university in Glasgow, she was offered the chance to record those songs in a little studio with small independent label Sticky Music. She then moved to Dublin to finish her degree and to start playing live shows. Soon Juliet was opening shows for international artists such as Bob Dylan, Gabrielle, Natalie Merchant, Sting, U2 and Brian Adams and was touring with Joan Armatrading, Brian Kennedy, Ron Sexsmith and Roger McGuinn.

In 2007 with three studio albums, a live album, double platinum sales and a Meteor Music Award (Best Irish Female Performer 2005) under her belt, Juliet decided that a change of scene was needed and in October returned to Trinity College Dublin to undertake a four year BSc in Clinical Speech and Language Studies and has since received her degree.

Juliet has continued to write and perform and her last album People Have Names was released in 2008 to critical acclaim. She is a compelling live performer with a voice that is unusually clear and sweet and that sometimes belies her wicked sense of humour.

 

Prepare to be drawn in and bowled over!

 

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