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Through the experiences of what could be 10 lifetimes, Michael Tiernan is an artist who has plunged into and explored the deep spaces of personal and worldly conflict, the beauty of love and nature, as well as the meaning of suffering and pervasive unhappiness that threatens our human experience on all sides. In his music, he resurfaces from these depths beaming with a positive outlook for all of us.
He survived cancer at age 16. At 18, he traveled the country in a van with a group of wacky Catholic hippies giving retreats to young people. He criss-crossed Europe through college with his guitar, hanging with monks deep in desert monasteries and living in the Vatican as a seminarian in his twenties on the way to becoming a priest, yet preferring to play gigs in local Roman pubs, or studying Buddhism in the piazza when he should’ve been in class.
In his newest CD, Spaces, Michael explores several types of both the real and metaphorical spaces that life offers each of us, from the space that exists between people in relationships to the vast space of nature that surrounds us and to the deep and sometimes ominous space in our own hearts. He’s won many accolades through his career, most recently being named 2007 Songwriter of the Year at the Pacific Songwriting Competition.
