NATHAN CARTER – BEAUTIFUL LIFE

We’re delighted here at The Celtic Times to have Nathan Carter – “Beautiful Life’ as our CD of the month. Nathan Carter will be headlining at The Harvest Country Music Festival on the 26th and 27th August in Enniskillen and Westport.

Nathan Carter is a sensation! In Ireland he outsold One Direction, Pharrell Williams and Michael Buble, and became the first country act to reach number one in the Irish charts in 2013 after Garth Brooks, six years before.

He is an exciting artist on the UK Country scene, and topped the Irish charts with his fifth album ‘Where I Wanna Be’ which features his unique blend of Celtic, Country and Pop! Not bad for the cherubic former head choir boy who sang for Pope John Paul ll in Rome.

Nathan was born on 28th May 1990, growing up in Liverpool. His family originate from Newry in County Down. He soon learned to play the accordion and trips to Ireland to compete in Fleadh Ceoil’s became a regular feature of young Nathan’s life, and by the age of 12, he won All Ireland medals for singing and the accordion. Nathan soon became a member of the Liverpool Ceili band, playing accordion, piano and solo performances soon followed in Liverpool and Ireland.

On a trip to Donegal in 2009, Nathan was appearing in concert in Buncrana, where he met with songwriter John Farry. So, impressed was Farry that representation soon followed and the rest, as they say, is history.

Nathan’s recordings include ‘Where I Wanna Be’ (no. 1), ‘Beautiful Life’ (no. 1), ‘Stayin Up All Night’ which topped the Irish chart and reached the top 20 in the UK. ‘The Way That You Love Me’, ‘Time Of My Life’, ‘The Live Show’, CD & DVD. ‘Wagon Wheel’ CD, saw him sign with Decca Records. The video single to ‘Wagon Wheel’, has generated more than a million hits on YouTube.

His self-titled 5-episode show saw him perform with KT Tunstall, Finbar Fury, Paddy Casey, Mary Black, The Shires and Billy Ocean to an audience in excess of 2.5 million viewers on Irish Television.