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- musical gatherings hosted by GAEL LINN
Bewley’s Café Theatre, Grafton Street
6p.m. – 8p.m.
( Doors open from 5.45p.m. )
TUESDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2009
A great evening of music and song is promised
in the company of former ‘LIADÁN’ member
SARAH JANE WOODS ( flute ) with
EMMA WOODS ( fiddle/songs) and
AOIFE JOHNSTON ( concertina )
ADMISSION: €15 ( includes complimentary finger food )
Bar open/tea and coffee available
BOOKING RECOMMENDED ( LIMITED SPACE ! )
087/2547574
January 27th - 31st, 2010
www.templebartradfest.com
This year the Temple Bar TradFest will celebrate its 5th birthday in style with an expanded programme featuring many free and family orientated events. From January 27th-31st Temple Bar will be awash with traditional music, song and dance as well as a huge range of fun events which all the family can enjoy.
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The biggest Irish music festival makes its way to ‘The Lake County’
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann has awarded Cavan Town the prestigious honour of hosting Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann 2010. Cavan is celebrating the announcement following a meeting at Comhaltas headquarters in Monkstown, Dublin on September 12, at which the Ardchomhairle voted to stage Ireland’s premier traditional culture event in the Lake County.
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SIANSA GAEL LINN is teideal don chomórtas do ghrúpaí traidisiúnta atá á reáchtáil ag Gael Linn, le tacaíocht ó RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta agus Irish Music Magazine, chun spreagadh agus ardán a thabhairt don chuid is fearr de ógthallann ceoil agus amhránaíochta traidisiúnta na tíre.
Siansa Gael Linn is a competition for young traditional music and singing groups organised by Gael Linn with funding from RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and Irish Music Magazine.
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www.musicnetwork.ie
Music Network has announced details of the second round of the Music Capital
Scheme, an initiative designed to provide support for the purchase of
musical instruments funded by the Arts Council. Awards in this scheme will be made to individual artists, to ensembles and to organisations supporting musical practice in other ways. This year, there are two categories of support under the Music Capital Scheme aimed at highly skilled performing artists and non-professional performing groups/ensembles.
Stream 1: Instrument banks
Total available funding in 2009: €75,000
Stream 2: Individual Instruments
Total available funding in 2009: €37,900
This fund aims supports the purchase of high value musical instruments. One
or more awards may be made to support up to 50% of the value of the
instrument. Available to highly skilled individual performing artists only.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 5:30 p.m. Monday 2nd November
2009. For further information visit
www.musicnetwork.ie or contact The Music Capital Scheme Manager, Music Network, Tel. 01 6719429 or
email capitalscheme@musicnetwork.ie.
Cork-born singer-songwriter Ger Wolfe has just released “No Bird Sang”, his fifth collection of original songs to date on the ‘Raggedy Records’ label, distributed in Ireland by Claddagh Records.
Over the years Ger has worked hard at establishing his reputation as one of our finest songwriters with the albums-“Word and Rhyme” (1998), “Ragged Ground” (2000), “Heaven Paints her Holy Mantle Blue” (2002) and “The Velvet Earth” (2006). This, while also touring as both a solo artist and with his band ‘The New Skylarks’. His songs are widely admired and have been covered by the likes of Karan Casey, Danú, North Cregg and Sharon Shannon. His much loved ode to childhood ‘The Curra Road’ has been hailed as a ‘folk classic’.
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50th anniversary CD release of first Gael Linn LP
Gael Linn is Ireland’s oldest recording company. Its first LP was issued in 1958 and to commemorate it we are now re-issuing the album on CD for the first time. Prior to issuing an LP, Gael Linn had been issuing gramophone records (78s) since 1957 where songs and music were featured on alternate sides. The same order was followed for the first LP.
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The Mulkerrin Brothers, winners of the first ever R.T.E ‘All-Ireland Talent Show’, are about to embark on their very first Irish tour. Some very special guests are to be announced in the coming weeks, and the Royal Theatre will welcome them on Sunday 29th November 2009.
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