Promoting their eagerly awaited 2nd Album ‘HAPPY THE MAN’, released on September 5th 2008, Dublin based 'The Guggenheim Grotto' play their last Irish dates of 2008 before returning to the U.S. Their critically acclaimed debut Album '...Waltzing Alone' kept them busy touring the U.S. for most of 2006-2007 with songs from the Album featuring on many top rating TV Dramas including Men In Trees, Brothers and Sisters, Six Degrees, One Tree Hill and award winning independent movie 'The Education of Charlie Banks'. Their Irish radio hit 'Told You So' featured on the American Starbucks Compilation CD 'Across the Pond', a handpicked compilation of the 'Best and Brightest' also featuring Amy Winehouse, Damien Rice, KT Tunstall, Corinne Bailey Rae, Lilly Allen, Paulo Nutini and the The Fratelli’s, while 'Philosophia', the opening track from '...Waltzing Alone' made iTunes 'Single of the Week'... introducing the band to a wider audience and culminated in '...Waltzing Alone' climbing to the No.1 position on the iTunes Folk Chart. Still fresh from their phenomenal success in America and with a new Album of songs in their set, The Guggenheim Grotto pair their hauntingly beautiful vocal harmonies with classical and contemporary instruments, creating a mix of Pop, Rock and Folk which keep audiences coming back again and again. “…a record of first-rate acoustic pop” – Paste Magazine “….one of the most beautiful records of the year” – Nick Harcourt, KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic “In a musical tavern of light beers and sugary cordials, this stuff is pure stout” – Boston Globe “With debts to both Radiohead and The Beatles, this is modern, intelligent, lyrically potent pop” – Boston Herald “…one of the past year’s most promising new acts” – Washington Post “…a spine tingling effect that I haven’t experienced since I heard Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends album for the first time” – Irish Voice “…what the first Crosby, Stills & Nash album might have sounded like if all its members were from Dublin.” – San Diego Union Tribune “…emotionally rich songs performed without irony or jaded modernism” – Nashville Scene “…exquisite folk pop” – Charleston Daily Mail