www.lismoremusicfestival.com

Irish Traditional Music Legends The Chieftains & Guests

For one night only at the Cappoquin Community Centre

Saturday 20th November 2010

Irish Traditional music legends The Chieftains will play a concert for one night only in the Cappoquin Community Centre on Saturday 20th November 2010.

The Chieftains and guests will play the state of the art 600 seater Community Centre for the first time as part of a four concert mini tour in Ireland in November.
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…ag ceiliúradh 10 mbliana !
www.gael-linn.ie

Tá an dáta deiridh iontrála do SIANSA GAEL LINN 2011, comórtas do ghrúpaí óga traidisiúnta,  ag teacht aníos go scioptha – 5 Samhain 2010!  Arna eagrú ag Gael Linn le deich mbliana anuas le tacaíocht ó RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta agus Irish Music Magazine, tá Siansa anois ar cheann de phríomhchomórtais ceoil/amhránaíochta na tíre.  Beidh an craobhchomórtas ar siúl arís sa Cheoláras Náisiúnta, Baile Átha Cliath ar an Domhnach, 10 Aibreán 2011, áit a mbeidh ocht ngrúpa san iomaíocht do dhuaischiste €4,500.   Tá foirmeacha iontrála agus gach eolas faoi SIANSA  le fáil ag 01:6753303 nó www.gael-linn.ie
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www.cavanmusic.com
Email:cavanmusiclive@gmail.com

The Town Hall Cavanis delighted to welcome Macalla na hÉireann Macalla na hÉireann –13 member Comhaltas Musicians Singers and Dancers Tour of Ireland to the Town Hall, Cavan Town in Honour of the ageless Seamus Fay, the lilter par excellence who was decreed the honorary president of the Fleadh 2010 on Wednesday 13th October at 8pm.

Tickets €15 AND GO ON SALE FROM NEXT Tuesday 5th OCT Limited numbers so early booking advisable
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www.womex.com

Womex is the most important international professional market of world music of every kind and this year’s Expo will take place from October 27th – 31st in Copenhagen, Denmark. Run by the Berlin based Womad organisation, this annual event is one of the biggest showcases for talent on the European World and Folk music circuit, strangely over the past ten years Irish agents and acts have not taken the opportunity to showcase our music at WOMEX.
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www.oldbridgemusic.com

Chris’s new CD will be officially released and available in the shops from November 1st. Still Getting Away with It is a musical autobiography - the front cover features Chris as a five-year-old playing the guitar in his grandmother’s garden! and a perfect showcase for his extraordinary skills as guitarist, mandolinist, composer and arranger.
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www.tg4.ie

A new Geantraí series came back to TG4 in September. Geantraí is a traditional music series that has been a part of the TG4 schedule since the stations inception and is very popular with traditional music followers nationwide. The Geantraí series reflects the very special atmosphere of the pub session and programmes feature the best of regional traditional music from the traditional music pub scene right around the country.
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www.musicnetwork.ie/musicians/courses

Music Network is calling for applications for a range of supports being offered to support the career development of musicians. Application deadlines are approaching for the following professional development training courses and funding schemes.

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www.nuigalway.ie/arts

NUI Galway has recently announced the 2010/2011 ‘Arts in Action’ Programme, which invites students to engage with the creative arts during their studies. Aimed at students across the campus, ‘Arts in Action’ offers access to a variety of international-standard arts events throughout the academic year. New additions and highlights this year include an exhibition from the Architectural Association of Ireland, an NUIGalway/ Telegael digital media exhibition and a contemporary opera from the Italian ensemble Gatto Marte.
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www.itma.ie

Music has been performed in oral tradition in Ireland now for some ten-thousand years, but it was 1724 before the first notated collection of Irish music appeared. Consisting of forty-nine tunes and far older than any surviving manuscript collection, “A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes Proper for the Violin, German Flute or Hautboy” was published that year in the yard of Christ Church Cathedral in central Dublin by the musical-instrument makers John and William Neal, a father and son of obscure origins who dominated the Dublin music trade in the first half of the eighteenth century.
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www.returntocamden.org

The 12th Return to Camden Town Festival will take place over the final two weekends of October 2010. Once again, Return to Camden celebrates the
finest traditional Irish music, song and dance - with artists from Ireland,the US and around the UK.

This year sees a new format for the Festival, with music and song events concentrated over one long weekend and dance events over the following
weekend. Festival dates are:
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