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September 29th – October 1st, 2017,
The 21st Annual Celtic Festival and Marketplace mixes Celtic music and magic September 29th through October 1st at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley California, a bucolic setting on 100 acres among giant ponderosa pines. (more…)
July 1st – 9th, 2017
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Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy and Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance.
A joint initiative, involving Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance and Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, was launched on the 30th November 2016 at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance by Nicholas Carolan, Director Emeritus of the Irish Traditional Music Archive. The Blas Summer School ( June 19th–30th, 2017), located in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, is linking up with Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy to offer students an opportunity to extend their immersion in traditional music studies by enrolling in the Dúchas an Cheoil/ Scope of Irish Traditional Music course at the Willie Clancy School. This collaboration will offer students an accredited programme based at the University of Limerick and the Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay. (more…)
The Northern Breeze is the debut solo album of Italian flute and whistle player Michel Balatti. Michel is a well known artist in the Italian and European folk scene, due to his career with the Birkin Tree (the foremost Irish music band in Italy) and with the Italian traditional music band I Liguriani, with whom he has toured Europe extensively over the course of the last five years. (more…)
The young traditional music group ‘Dúchas’ from Corofin are the Siansa Gael Linn 2017 winners ! At the Grand Finale concert in the National Concert Hall on Sunday, 2 April 2017, they were selected from among eight finalists of a high standard for this prestigious award. Organized annually by Gael Linn, with support from RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and Irish Music Magazine, Siansa Gael Linn is a musical highlight on the calendar of young musicians.
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