AJA: The Music of Steely Dan at Theatre Royal Waterford

What to Expect

AJA are an eight-piece band built specifically around the studio sound of Steely Dan, and they bring a two-hour set to Theatre Royal Waterford on Saturday 15 August 2026. Rather than working from a greatest-hits shortlist alone, the show mixes the familiar singles with deeper album cuts, and the arrangements are worked back towards the original recordings. The venue’s own billing points to the signature guitar lines, brass arrangements, keyboard solos and layered vocal harmonies being reproduced as they were laid down in the studio, which is the whole reason a band this size is needed in the first place.

The lineup is David O’Meara on vocals and percussion, Sinead Stone on vocals and percussion, Gerard Farrelly on keys and vocals, Colm Lindsay on guitar and vocals, Tommy Moore on bass and vocals, Serge Stavila and Mark Wilde on saxophones, and Alan Cunningham on drums. The twin saxophones and the three-way vocal split are what let the group get near the horn charts and close harmony that define records like Aja, Gaucho and Can’t Buy A Thrill. No support act is listed, so the running time is given over entirely to the main set.

Good to Know

• Date: Saturday 15 August 2026, 8:00 PM start
• Venue: Theatre Royal Waterford, The Mall, Waterford city
• Tickets: €29.50, booked through the Theatre Royal box office or its Ticketsolve page
• Running time is around two hours
• Box office: 051 874402 or boxoffice@theatreroyal.ie
• This is a seated theatre show rather than a standing gig

Getting There

Theatre Royal sits on The Mall in Waterford city centre, a couple of minutes’ walk from the Quay and the city centre bus stops. Drivers arrive from Dublin on the M9 and from Cork on the N25, with multi-storey and on-street parking within a short walk of the theatre. Plunkett Station, the city’s rail and Bus Eireann terminus, is on the north side of the river, roughly a fifteen minute walk across Rice Bridge.