Moondance - The Van Morrison Songbook @ Venables Theatre

Event Dates:
  • Fri • May 8, 2026 • 7:30 PM
  • Event Cost: $45
“Moondance”: The Van Morrison Songbook
Featuring Tiller’s Folly’s Bruce Coughlan, winner of the 2024 ISSA (International Singer Songwriters Association) Top Male Vocalist!
Mystic Celtic soul singer and songwriter Van Morrison has placed his indelible stamp upon Western music culture with a career spanning over half a century!
In “Van the Man,” Mr. Coughlan, Bruce, brings one of his major influences to life with an uncanny ability to make you shut your eyes and think the great Van is in the room.
As well as being an award-winning singer and songwriter with groups like Bare Facts, The Hitops, and Tiller’s Folly, Bruce has long been recognized as one of the great vocal interpreters of our time. In this show, he puts all of that experience and interpretive skill into sharp focus as “Van the Man.”
Be prepared to be totally entertained as “Van the Man” brings, with the utmost respect, energy, and joy, this great icon’s career to life.
He emerged in the early 1960s as vocalist for Irish blues group Them. Even in the early days, Van Morrison had a distinctive sound, and he laid down his uniquely expressive vocal lines with confidence and soulful conviction. So convincingly that songs like Gloria, Here Comes the Night, and Baby, Please Don’t Go… and then in 1967 came Brown Eyed Girl, one of, if not the most iconic sing-along songs of the last century!
In 1970, Van Morrison recorded two albums: Moondance and Van Morrison, His Band and the Street Choir. From these two albums alone flowed a stream of enduring classics: And It Stoned Me, Moondance, Crazy Love, Caravan, Into the Mystic, Blue Money, Domino, and so many more.
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Vocalist Bruce Coughlan (Tiller’s Folly) fronts this six-piece music revue, performing our picks of Van Morrison’s most lively, engaging, and best- loved songs!