www.celtic.grooves.com
Isn’t Anyone Going to Stop Them is the name of a new CD of Irish Music from Boston. The young and exceptionally talented band features Elliot Grasso on pipes; Dan Isaacson on flute, whistle, and bouzouki; Dave Cory on banjo, bodhrán, and bouzouki; Breige Quinn on fiddle; Ted Davis on guitar with Tina Lech; George Keith on fiddles and Peter Molloy on flute. We have a copy in the Irish Music Magazine office ready for a forthcoming review and it’s a wonderful debut work from this up and coming band.

The album and the group come highly recommended with a glowing homily to the band in the liner notes from respected flute player and broadcaster, Marcus O’Murchú. The album is worth checking out on www.celtic.grooves.com

www.cic.ie
This past summer saw a veritable treasure trove of new traditional albums coming to the market, with an emphasis on quality, both in the recordings and the selection of material on display. There are three albums of note released by Cló Iar Chonnachta. The Merry Love to Play, from flute player, Peter Horan and fiddler, Gerry Harrington comes highly recommended. Charlie Lennon has a new double album out on the same label, Turning the Tune. This two disc set contains some thirty selections of tunes from the Galway-based fiddler.
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This is the long-awaited and much-anticipated album from Clare photographer, Christy McNamara. With Dennis Cahill and Martin Hayes backing Christy, who plays box and also contributes a song, this is one of the most genuine rooted albums of the year. Christy’s launch and CD review will appear in the next issue. More information is available on www.christymcnamara.com

Donnchadh O’Cinnéide presents a Comhaltas radio programme every Monday evening on Tipp Mid West Radio at 7.30 pm Irish time. You can pick it up online at www.tippmidwestradio.com

www.musicnetwork.ie
Music Network announced the second round of successful applicants of the Performance and Touring Award 2007 in early July, which provides support and work for professional musicians in Ireland. With funding from the Arts Council, the Performance and Touring Award was developed by Music Network, the national music development organisation, to assist Irish and Ireland-based musicians in realising performance opportunities.
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New album from John Wynne and John McEvoy
Traditional Irish Flute and Fiddle Music in the North Connaught Style
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Features Riverdance’s original vocal group ANÚNA, JOHNNY CASH and Irish tenor CIARÁN SHEEHAN, plus tickets to area concerts!
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Pavilion Theatre & THE GastroPUB Company
Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire
Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th August 2007
Tickets: €16, €12 senior & other concessions
€10 students & children
The session/Family Show: €12/€10/€8
Festival ticket (4 shows): €48/€40concession/€36 students & children
Gastropub sessions: free admission

Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown’s Municipal Theatre today announced TRADITION:DL, Dun Laoghaire’s inaugural festival of Traditional Music.

Announcing the exciting line-up, Pavilion’s Director Martin Murphy said “We in the Pavilion are delighted to be able to bring together exciting talents of the like of Mairtin O’Connor & Frankie Gavin, Slide, Caoimhe Hegarty and the musicians from the Tap Room Trio all in Dun Laoghaire’s very own Festival of Traditional Music. Pack up that ol’ bouzouki and get on down to Marine Road on August 3,4,5 for a “ceol-tastic” weekend at TRADITION:DL

Over the August Bank Holiday weekend, the audience is invited to spend time in the Pavilion Theatre and their new neighbour THE GastroPUB, as they bring to Dun Laoghaire the very best performers on the Irish Traditional Music scene in a feast of “ceol agus…more ceol” from Friday to Sunday.

If “music is what feelings sound like” then audiences will hear some of the purest and most delicate feelings, along with feet tapping rhythms from the likes of Máirtín O’Connor and Frankie Gavin, Róisín Elsafty, Siobhan Armstrong, Harry Bradley, Slide, as well as a whole host of the most exciting “trad” talent around. So sit back, enjoy the atmosphere, and give your ears a treat. And if you bring your instrument join in with the superb session musicians in THE GastroPUB and celebrate the very first TRADITION:DL Festival.

Interviews, Images and more information from
Cerstin Mudiwa cerstin@paviliontheatre.ie or (01) 231 2920