We were interested to hear from Nick Malicka (Tr 68) about his musical career. Nick writes: I am living in Brittany and I work as a professional musician with a duo, Morsgael, playing Irish traditional music. Since 2011, we have played over a thousand gigs and released five albums.
A musician specializing in guitar, mandolin, harmonica, bouzouki and banjo, Nick is also a singer and a songwriter. He has been playing gigs for over 30 years, beginning in Ireland, at Harrington’s Bar, in Glengarriff, Co.Cork.
Nick has played in folk and blues clubs in England as a solo artist, and has supported players such as the late Isaac Guillory, Martin Simpson and Richard Digance.
His album, ‘Feel So Close’, received glowing reviews, and one of his songs, ‘Not the Whiskey Talking’, was recorded by Martin Simpson on his CD, ‘True, Dare or Promise’ In 2008, he formed a duo in Ireland, called Veshengro with Johnny Burke ( Enda Wyatt ex An Emotional Fish),recording a double CD ‘Trees in Your Window’ and a new CD ‘After Rain’ in Nov 2013.
In June 2018 Nick launched his new album ‘ Beyond the Blue’, recorded by the late Enda Wyatt, and Georges Breuil in Dublin and The Cotes D’Armor
Additionally Nick’s first novel, Malt, will be published next year. It focuses on the enormous transitions in English society in the early sixties, through the life of Peter Malt, a pupil in a fictional Essex prep school.
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