www.tlugh.com

Tionscnamh Lugh is still going strong after many years of excellent traditional concerts. If you’re interested in traditional music, Tionscnamh Lugh should be your first point of contact in County Donegal. Ian Smith of Tionscnamh Lugh says “Tionscnamh Lugh are a Not for Profit Organisation, and we love what we do. People who are aware of us understand, very well that we promote high quality, and we do it at a reasonable cost to our audiences. If we didn’t bring the best high quality acts to the Gaeltacht region, who else would? that’s our motivation”. Tionscnamh Lugh are very grateful for the support of the Arts Council in recent years, particularly the traditional Arts section.
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McNeills Pub and Music shop has served the people of Ireland and further afield since 1834, a renowned emporium for traditional Irish musicians and performing artists on capel street in the very centre of northside Dublin. A genuine piece of old decency with two open fires to warm the cockles of your heart, whilst enjoying a drop of the black stuff. The music shop has moved to the first floor over the pub specialising in the finest selection of pre-war and new banjo’s, fiddles, flutes, mandolins and many more.

There are nightly trad sessions all through the year with visiting musicians from all over Ireland coming to perform.
Tuesday 8:30pm to close, Open Session
Wednesday 8:30pm to close, Bluegrass
Thursday 8:30pm to close, Open Session
Friday 8:30pm to close, Open Session
Saturday 8:30pm to close, Open Session

The owners of this pub and music shop are musicians and often join in the sessions. It is a pub frequented by Irish speakers, musicians, singers and all manner of characters both young and old.

For further Information contact McNeills, 140 Capel Street,
Tel: 01–8747679. Email:mcneillspub@gmail.com

www.tyrrellglackinbrowne.com

A national tour, scheduled for this June, will harvest the talents of three of the most highly respected musicians within the Irish traditional/folk scene. Seán, Kevin and Ronan have been playing together socially and for tours and shows since the 1980’s but are only now releasing a CD of songs and tunes. The CD is nicely balanced between gentle and wild, without suffering from that dreadful modern ailment, over-production – just warm, friendly music and singing.
And so the story goes… was released by Cló Iar Chonnachta (www.cic.ie) in May 2011 and the three artists are looking forward to bringing it around Ireland in June.
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Paul Lee under the banner of “Musiclee” has been staging folk concerts for the last 20 years in different venues around Dublin. Starting in An Beal Bocht in Dublin’s Charlemont Street in 1988 and running concerts there until its closure in 2001. In 2007, Musiclee went out to the suburb of Walkinstown and set up a venue in The Cherrytree, again taking an unused upstairs lounge and transforming it into a respected and much loved venue by audience and musicians alike. This venue staged many memorable concerts but the highlights must include the first reunion concert in 25 years of Paul Brady and Andy Irvine and the first ever Irish concert by the Klezmatics just three days before winning a grammy for best album. The Cherrytree was also nominated in 2009 and 2010 for Venue of the Year by IMRO/Hot Press readers. Sadly Musiclee has again had to move on as the Cherrytree focuses on some renovations and development of its lounge for various functions.

If anyone feels they may be able to help to get such a venue going please contact Paul at email:paul@musiclee.ie

www.celtic-colours.com

The Celtic Colours Festival Society held their Annual General Meeting recently at the Gaelic College in St. Ann’s, during which they elected a new chair and welcomed four new board members. Robert Sampson, Q.C, a partner in local law firm Sampson McDougall, takes over as chair from Dr. Jacquelyn Scott who held the position since 2007. Dr. Scott had been on the board since 1999 and, along with outgoing board members Ron MacInnis (2007-2010), James Kelly (2007-2010), Pat Murray (2005-2010) and Laura Mercer (2005-2010), had a first-hand involvement in much of the Festival’s progress during the last decade or so.
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www.jimmycrowley.com

Jimmy is back from the USA for an extensive summer tour of Ireland. As well as a number of dates around the country he will be bringing his one man show Cork Characters back to the Firkin Crane Theatre in Cork. In this show Jimmy recalls through songs and stories some of Cork’s colourful citizens.

For more details on his excellent website, plus samples from his forthcoming mandolin album www.jimmycrowley.com

www.dervish.ie

Dervish, have released their first App on the Apple App store to celebrate 21+ years on the road. The iPad app, created in partnership with the Serious Games & Virtual World’s team, based in the School of Computing & Intelligent Systems at the University of Ulster’s Magee Campus, is free to download from the App store and features a handpicked selection of songs, videos and an episode of the ever popular Irish Heartbeat radio show, providing users with a highly interactive introduction to the band and their rich musical history.
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Irish Traditional Music on Tin Whistle

www.gael-linn.ie

The late Donncha Ó Briain was a member of a well-known Dublin musical family: his brothers Mick (pipes), Tom (fiddle), Andrew (fiddle) and John (pipes), all learned music from an early age from their father Dinny (accordion).  Despite suffering from muscular dystrophy, Donncha became one of the finest whistle players of his generation. In 1979 he recorded a highly acclaimed LP for Gael Linn which is now re-released as a CD with additional tracks which had been recorded by Raidió na Gaeltachta. Donncha passed away in 1990 aged 30.
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June 16th - 19th, 2011

www.kilfenorainfo.com

For the third successive year, the Co. Clare Fleadh Cheoil will be held in Kilfenora, one of Ireland’s villages most famed for its music. This year we also celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.
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GWEEDORE, CO DONEGAL, IRELAND
JUNE 10-12 2011
www.voicesandharps.com

Imagine an opportunity to develop your vocal and harp playing skills among the mountains, lakes and endless Atlantic beaches of Donegal!

To coincide with the June 10 release of their new album, Voices & Harps, Moya Brennan and Cormac De Barra are holding an exclusive weekend workshop in voice and Irish harp.
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