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Comhaltas Seisiún Show is hosted every summer on the Tuesday & Wednesday nights of July and August. The show starts at 8pm in Ballyjamesduff and 9 pm in Farnham Arms Hotel.
With a cast of over 30 artists of all ages, and a non-stop performance of wild Cavan music, song and dance. Tea, coffee and locally-made treats can be got in the Museum /Hotel before the show. All welcome to sing, play or dance. A memorable night and a genuine Cavan welcome to all.
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launches with an intimate evening with  THE HIGH KINGS

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The Sugar Club announces SIÚCRA, a new initiative dedicated to the performance and promotion of traditional Irish music and arts. SIÚCRA will run over the summer months with a series of events commencing with a two week residency of an intimate evening with THE HIGH KINGS (Finbarr Clancy, Martin Furey, Brian Dunphy and Darren Holden) opening July 5th.
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Music Network presents Jackie Daly (accordion) / Matt Cranitch (Fiddle) / John Faulkner (Guitar, Bouzouki, Songs)

Prepare for a night to remember as the combined talents of Jackie Daly, Matt Cranitch and John Faulkner team up to bring some of the finest Irish traditional music on a nationwide Music Network tour.
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Details of this major music education scheme were announced at the Ireland Fund’s 35th Anniversary Celebration in New York. Dr Tony O’ Dalaigh will Chair the board and Rosaleen Molloy will act as Project Director with responsibility for rolling out the programme nationally.
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In Ceoláras Coleman, Gurteen, Co. Sligo, the ‘Summer Seisiún’ makes a welcome return, commencing on the first week in July. The twice weekly seisiún are held on Wednesday & Saturday nights at 9pm. Ceoltóirí Coleman will again provide the music, song and dancing. As in former years, audience participation is encouraged and facilitated. The atmosphere is cordial and friendly and the interval during the show gives an opportunity for everyone to meet up over a complimentary cup of tea. The performers are both young and mature, all highly talented and a lovely traditional nights entertainment is assured.
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The Seán Ó Riada Gold Medal 2010 - Fiddle
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This is a worldwide competition run during the course of each year. This mirrors a similar competition held on Radio Eireann in a program called Fleadh Cheoil an Radio which was presented and conceived by the late Sean Ó Riada, Peadar’s father during the early 1960’s. This year, 2010, is the year of the fiddle. Anyone can enter from anywhere in the world. The competition is to award the Sean Ó Riada Gold Medal to the most complete Irish traditional fiddler who has competed. All entrants are free. Entry is via the Internet to the site Cuireadh Chun Ceoil.
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With ash in the skies and the Euro falling it hasn’t been the best time to attract cultural tourists from abroad so some imaginative thinking was need to connect with a potential audiences in Ireland’s biggest city, that is just what Donegal tourism did when it hosted the Donegal Live Day in Dublin’s Temple Bar on Sunday May 16th.
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Arts Minister Mary Hanafin will open Contemporary Music Centre’s The Future of Music in the Digital World conference for the music industry on Friday, 11th June, 2010. This major conference brings together high-level international speakers to explore and debate issues: around the meaning of digital culture: how it impacts on the creator and the performer; and the implications for copyright in a world which has come to expect music to be free.
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One of Irish music’s true gentleman Billy Clifford was presented with the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Gradam at Ballykisteen Hotel during the start of the Tipperary Fleadh. Billy who has lived in the premier county for four decades made two of the classic Topic albums of Sliabh Luachra music over forty years ago. Billy is the son of the late John and Julia Clifford, his mother was the sister of Dennis Murphy. Their Julia, John & Billy Clifford - The Star of Munster Trio (Topic - 12TS310 - 1977) was recorded between 1964 and around a single microphone in Eric and Lucy Farr’s kitchen. Billy was joined on stage by his son Dennis who played his uncle Dennis’ fiddle. Billy is due to release a CD in late summer.

Dinny McLaughlin, of Cockhill, Buncrana was awarded the International Fund for Ireland’s Intergenerational “Pass It on” Award in May. The award recognises the recipients passing on the music or dance tradition and Dinny has done both over the years. The strength of his work can be measured by the fact that there are now many dancing and fiddle teachers in Innishowen who got their early education from Dinny.
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