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Concerts are held in the wonderful acoustic setting of the candlelit Unitarian Church, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, commencing 8pm - tickets @ door from 7.30pm.
For advance bookings call 01 6788470 or email: dublin@steeplesessions.com
Thursday 11th Aug
Eilish O’Connor (fiddle)
Donal O’Connor (fiddle)
Mick O’Grady (songs, stories & tunes)
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A Chara,
There is currently a shortage of helpers for the competition venues in Cavan. If you have four hours to spare on the weekend of 20/21st August please contact: Derry Scanlan on 087 7605300
dscanlan@cavancoco.ie
Please pass this request on to anyone who may be able to help.
Martin Donohoe Events and Entertainment Chair
All Ireland Fleadh Cavan 2011 www.fleadh2011cavan.ie
Swellan Upper Golf Links Rd, Cavan, Co Cavan, Ireland |
Email: cavanmusiclive@gmail.com
Mob: 0862342270
Let Cavan Surprise You AGAIN
As part of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2011 Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and Sadler’s Wells, London in association with the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival Presents
Rian
Directed and Choreographed by Michael Keegan Dolan
Musical Direction by Liam Ó Maonlaí
World premiere – 6th Oct
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
For FOUR performances only
“In the febrile creative mind of Michael Keegan Dolan, anything is possible”
The Times
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Cavan’s popular Imperial Bar will be hosting a series of major events and concerts as the All-Ireland Fleadh comes back to the county town this year, in both its upstairs ‘Gonzo Theatre’ and its state-of-the-art ‘Vision Nite Club’.
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special All-Ireland Fleadh Peace III show at Cavan Crystal Hotel
www.fleadh2011cavan.ie
A concert well worth seeing as this year’s All-Ireland Fleadh gets going in Cavan is ‘Great Women’s Voices in Irish Music’, which will feature Susan McKeown Róisín O’Reilly, Maggie Boyle, and Aoife Murray in an intimate setting at the Cavan Crystal Hotel at 7.45pm on Wednesday 17th August.
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The third of Bantry’s trio of summer festivals which have a direct economic impact of more than €800,000 on the town, takes place next week from Tuesday 9th to Sunday 14th August.
The Masters of Tradition has extended to a six day festival this year and welcomes the finest traditional musicians in Ireland and from overseas for a celebration of Irish traditional music in its purest form. This year, Artistic Director and US-based fiddler Martin Hayes is joined by such popular names as guitarist Steve Cooney, uilleann piper Mick O’Brien, fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Cork balladeer Jimmy Crowley, accordion player Brendan Begley and his family, New York-based singer Susan McKeown, the celebrated sisters Maighread and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Birkin Tree from Italy, Lúnasa flute player Kevin Crawford and many more.
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A VERY SPECIAL CONCERT
MATT MOLLOY, JOHN CARTY, ARTY McGLYNN
AND
THE UNWANTED
Thursday, 27th – Monday, 31st October 2011
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Two of traditional Irish music’s most exciting combinations play a very special double bill at this year’s SLIGO LIVE.
The first combination in this very special concert features MATT MOLLOY who is regarded as the greatest living exponent of Irish flute playing. He is joined by Fiddle and banjo ace, JOHN CARTY and Ireland’s No. 1 guitar player,ARTY McGLYNN: this trio is hard to beat. The second combination in this very special concert features Sligo’s Atlantic crossover trio THE UNWANTED. This very special evening will take place on Sunday 31st October at 8.00pm in the Hawks Well Theatre and tickets are a moderate €18 from www.sligolive.ie, from the Hawks Well box office and from Ticketmaster nationwide.
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The Road West is a series of concerts at the Town Hall Theatre running from Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 August and featuring an amazing line up of some of the best Galway musical and singing talent. Highlight of the show will be Mairtín O’Connor and his band: Cathal Hayden on fiddle, Jimmy Higgins on percussion and Seamie O’Dowd on guitar. Technical brilliance, a flamboyant style and a versatility that seems to encompass every form of traditional music of countless countries mark out Máirtín O’Connor as a squeeze box player in the very top echelon.
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Tárchuig Scoil Eigse na bliana seo- Cabhán 2011
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s (CCÉ) 39th annual Scoil Éigse takes place in Cavan Town from 14th – 19th August 2011, the week proceeding Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann. Scoil Éigse, CCÉ’s annual international summer school, plays a very important part in educating, nurturing and encouraging Irish cultural traditions. Scoil Éigse is open to students and the general public alike.
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Foxlight (Real World Records)
www.iarla-o-lionaird.net
Launched at the Galway Arts Festival on July 25th this is the long anticipated studio album from the Ballyvouney Sean-nós singer. This is a gentler album than the ones he made with the Afro Celt Sound System but it still employs a range of modern instruments to add washes of sound to his evocative vocals. On the album he is joined by Leafcutter John, Simon Edwards and Neil McColl, with Leo Abrahams being the musical whizz behind it all, as he layers in electric guitar, piano, effects and digital programming.
