www.colemanirishmusic.com

At the most central crossroads in Co. Sligo, Gurteen Cross, stands  the modern, yet impressive building that is Ceoláras Coleman! This building is the focus for and home to a state of the art traditional music programme! The visitors’ experience is informal, welcoming and friendly. The Centre seeks to provide visitors with a tailor-made first-hand experience of traditional Irish music including a twelve minute audio-visual presentation. The Music Shop stocks an extensive selection of music CD’s, instruments, music books as well as souvenirs and books of local interest with a wider appeal.
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September 8th – 11th, 2011
www.dingletradfest.com

Dingle Tradfest is Ireland’s newest innovative Trad-Fusion Music Festival. The festival will provide a platform for both National and Internationally acclaimed performing artists to showcase modern and original talents within the usually more traditional environment that is the Dingle Peninsula.
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Call for Applications for Music Generation – Ireland’s National Music Education Programme. Deadline for applications: 31st March 2011
www.musicnetwork.ie

Music Generation, is the U2 and Ireland Funds supported National  Music Education Programme. Initiated by Music Network, the national agency for music development, Music Generation aims to help children  and young people to access music education in their own locality.
Music Education Partnerships are eligible to apply for 50% funding, up to a maximum of ?200,000 per annum over three years. The closing date for Round 1 applications is Thursday, March 31st, 2011.
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www.westcorkmusic.ie

With preparations now well under way for this summer’s festivals in Bantry, it has been revealed that last year the three festivals had a direct economic impact on Bantry and the local area of more than €890,000.

Approximately three thousand visitors descended on Bantry for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, West Cork Literary Festival and Masters of Tradition last summer. Despite the recession, ticket sales for the three events have risen year on year. More than 10,600 tickets were sold in 2010 and ticket sales for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival increased by 7%.
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www.tg4.ie

Clareman and concertina maestro Noel Hill heads the list of recipients of the TG4 Gradam Ceoil 2011 (Traditional Music Awards) announced at a media reception in the Galway City Museum this evening. Born and reared in Caherea in west Clare but now living in the Connemara Gaeltacht, Noel is widely regarded as one of the major figures in Irish music whose concerts and recordings have developed the concertina to a new level and broadened its appeal to a new audience.
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The Model, Sligo February 5th @ 8pm

Kíla play the music from their critically acclaimed latest album, Soísin.

Lauded by the press as “magical”, “stunningly beautiful”, “hypnotic” and “truly spellbinding”, Soisín is the ninth studio album from Kíla. Soisín is named after, and dedicated to a young Irish woman, Máire ‘Soishin’ O’Halloran, who travelled to Japan to join a Zen Buddhist monastery and in three short years came to be regarded as a Buddhist Bodhisattva or a saint of compassion. She lost her life in a bus accident in Thailand on her way back home. While touring in Japan, Kíla flautist, Colm Ó Snodaigh heard and was inspired by her story. He wrote the tune Soisín, which, in turn became the name of the album.
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February 3rd – 6th, 2011

www.carlingfordevents.com

Carlingford Community Development (CCD) in association with Saint Oliver’s’ Primary School Carlingford, and the Carlingford Lough Youth Peace Project (CLYPP) are pleased to announce that the 6th annual Carlingford Irish Traditional Arts Learning Festival will be taking place from the 3rd -6th of February 2011.
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www.templebartrad.com

Anúna, Ireland’s leading choral ensemble,will join Clannad in Christ Church at this year’s Temple Bar TradFest.

Anúna became closely associated with the Riverdance performing at the Eurovision Song Contest 1994. Since then they have collaborated with many a large number of artists as well as appearing on Grammy Award-winning albums with the Chieftains in collaborations with Sting and Elvis Costello.

An Anúna performance is a true “show”, a combination of movement, elegant costume, candles and ethereal and haunting music sung in a unique way. And their appearance with Clannad at this year’s TradFest promises to be something very special indeed!

To book tickets for this & other Temple Bar TradFest concerts
go to the Temple Bar TradFest Box Office at the Temple Bar Hotel
on Fleet Street, Temple Bar.

Open Mondays to Friday 11 -6.30pm
Saturday & Sunday 12-6pm

or visit
www.tickets.ie or www.templebartrad.com

www.seamusenniscentre.com

Date: Friday, 28th January.
Venue: The Séamus Ennis Cultural Centre, Naul, Co. Dublin. Tel: (01) 8020898.

Event: THE FOX HUNT & THE HENRY GIRLS.

Digging deep in the well of American roots, folk, blues and traditional Irish music, The Fox Hunt and The Henry Girls live collaboration - commissioned for this year’s Donegal Earagail Arts Festival - combines gritty West Virginian Americana with emerging Irish nu-folk. In a genre breaking show featuring individual sets by both bands and their 7 piece collaboration, The Fox Hunt’s rough edged old time vocals and smoky arrangements fit unbelievably well in companion to The Henry Girls
voluptuously rich three part harmonies and orginal compositions traced with Andrews Sister’s style boogie-woogie.
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October 7th – 15th 2011
www.celtic-colours.com

In October 2011, the Celtic Colours International Festival will celebrate its fifteenth year. Since 1997, this award-winning, world-renowned festival has featured hundreds of musicians from all over the Celtic world and attracted tens of thousands of visitors to picturesque Cape Breton Island, on Canada’s east coast. Over the years, artists have traveled from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, Brittany, Spain, Denmark, Germany, and Cuba as well as from across the United States and Canada to join the finest of Cape Breton’s musicians, singers, dancers, storytellers and tradition-bearers for the annual Autumn celebration.

Cape Breton Island is home to a unique combination of music and culture, inspired by 19th Century settlers from Scotland and Ireland, and influenced by the Aboriginal Mi’kmaq people, the island’s physical geography, and the waves of immigrants who populated its communities during industrialization. The Celtic Colours International Festival celebrates the traditional culture of the Island, presenting dozens of concerts, an extensive line-up of community events, and a nightly Festival Club during nine days each October. The fifteenth Celtic Colours International Festival will take place October 7-15, 2011. The full festival lineup will be announced during the third week of June and tickets will go on sale in July.

For more information about Celtic Colours International Festival, to see photos from the Festival, or to watch video previews and highlights visit celtic-colours.com