Phil Coalter returns to the Ardhowen Theatre on Saturday November 14. It's now 20 years since the distinctive sound of Tranquility, featuring Phil's piano and orchestra first seduced the whole of lreland with its easy melodic charm before going on to make believers around the world.

With record sales now counted in millions, as well as a grammy nomination, several appearances in the White House and sold out international tours, it's been quite a journey.

Not that Phil Coulter had been a stranger to success in the music biz prior to that. In the 20 years before Tranquility, he had achieved world-wide recognition as a hit songwriter, with then partner Bill Martin, notching up chart entries with a diverse list of acts from Cliff Richard to Sandie Shaw, Elvis Presley to Waylon Jennings, from Bobby Vinton to the Bay City Roller.

He has worked with legends of Irish music including the Dubliners and Planxty and has written at least four of the great Irish songs - 'the Town I loved so well', Ireland's Call, Scorn not his Simplicity and Steal Away.