IT won’t be your average concert — but then again, Damien Leith is no average musician.
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He is also a writer and now can add actor to the list.
Leith will perform his one-man play, The Parting Glass, at the Albury Entertainment Centre on Saturday, June 6, taking on the role of a father, son and singer in a band.
He wrote the piece for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival four years ago and the response has encouraged him to take it to regional Australia.
The play is set in an Irish pub where a father and son are reunited after the son returns after five years in Australia.
“They have a lot to catch up on and a lot to get to the bottom of,” Leith said.
“It’s quite light-hearted and funny but at times it is also a little bit dark.”
The band backing Leith plays Irish songs along with some classics.
The story was inspired by his own experience of Australia.
“I thought about being away from Ireland for a long time and how things change,” Leith said.
“It’s not about me — it’s fictitious — but there are things I can relate to going to Australia for the first time and returning all those years ago.”
This will be first performance in Albury for Leith who won Australian Idol almost a decade ago and has released eight albums.
The Border stage will also be home next month for Karise Eden, winner of The Voice 2012.
She will perform at the Albury SS & A Club on June 21.
Tickets to Leith’s show can be bought by visiting alburyc ity.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/enter tainment-centre/damien-leith.
