By Night & By Day

www.londonlasses.net

Described by Irish Music Magazine as “one of the best bands on the scene
today”, The London Lasses and Pete Quinn have, over the past decade,
brought their unique sound to some of the world’s most prestigious
festivals and concert halls, including Cambridge Folk Festival, the
Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Glastonbury, Ballyshannon, Philadelphia Irish
Festival and the Royal Albert Hall, where the band performed the first ever
céilí as part of the 2008 BBC Proms.
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www.sarahmcquaid.com

No. 1 chart success for Irish artist

As she gears up for her forthcoming Ireland tour, acclaimed singer/guitarist/songwriter Sarah McQuaid is celebrating her first chart success. Based on playlists from 146 folk radio DJs in the US and Canada, the folkradio.org chart for the month of February 2010 (http://folkradio.org/airplay/feb10.html) shows Sarah as the No. 1 artist and her recently released double CD as the No. 1 album.
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12TH – 16th March 2010
www.fermanagh.gov.uk

Getting back to real Fermanagh Trad … the pure stuff…

For those who know good Music, Enniskillen Folk Fest will be taking us on an alternative & freshly tuned creative journey, a high quality self- perpetuating & definitive kind. During the festival’s select programme of events, The Folk Fest will provide our ears with a strong refined selection of traditional Irish folk music events.
Legends of Irish traditional music will appear alongside Musicians who appeared on the audio archive of “Hidden Fermanagh”.
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www.thehighkings.com

Who: The High Kings
Where: HMV Grafton St Dublin 2
When: Tuesday 16th March at 11am

HMV is delighted to welcome The High Kings to HMV Grafton St on St. Patrick’s Day at 11am. One of Ireland’s most exciting Irish ballad groups will be performing an acoustic set and will also sign copies of their new album Memory Lane.
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www.seamusenniscentre.com

Date:    Wednesday, 17th March
Venue:  Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre, Naul, Co. Dublin
Event:   ST. PATRICK’S DAY OPEN SESSION

Join us in the Parlour for a special Traditional Session on St.
Patrick’s Day featuring local musicans.
All musicians welcome. Time: 12.30 p.m. onwards.  Adm:  FREE.
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Sanders Theatre concert offers traditional and contemporary Irish celebration
www.wgbh.org/celtic

Boston, MA – March 3 – Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year with a special concert of traditional and contemporary Irish music, song and dance. WGBH presents the fifth annual A St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn with Brian O’Donovan on Saturday, March 20 at 8pm at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, Cambridge.
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www.thehenrygirls.com

‘The Henry Girls’, from Inishowen in County Donegal, will perform an exclusive UK launch of their new CD ‘Dawn’, at this years Manchester Irish Festival. The band who have just been nominated for a IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award) for their original soundtrack on the Aidan Quinn film “A Shine of Rainbows”. The special concert takes place on Friday 12th March, 2010 in the upstairs acoustic room of m19 bar in Levenshulme and is one of the highlights of the area’s two week tradfest and kick starts its St Patrick’s weekend celebrations.
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www.musiclee.ie

Dublin based music promoter, Musiclee is presently looking for a premises somewhere in Dublin City to set up a member’s only music club. The venue will ideally be capable of seating 100 minimum and would have facilties installed such as a stage area, PA and so on. It would not be open to the public and would not be a licensed premises. As a private members club people would be allowed to bring their own refreshments, though we would plan on having a tea/coffee facility. It could be a room that would also allow theatre, exhibitions, workshops etc.
If anyone knows of a room with such potential that is available for rent or lease please let Paul Lee know via his website located at www.musiclee.ie

www.gerryoconnor.com

Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as ‘the best ever banjoist in the history of Irish music, Gerry O’Connor has brought the banjo to places no other player had tread before. He has travelled the world - physically and musically - experimenting with everything from Irish to bluegrass to African and Asian and back. Both as a soloist and as a member of the highly acclaimed Four Men and a Dog, Gerry has truly traced the banjo’s journey through the world of music. Gerry’s journey continues with his most recent solo recording “High Up Low Down” which features his unique treatment of Irish traditional music, American bluegrass and ground-breaking new compositions.
Gerry will be touring in Ireland in March/April and further afield later in the year.

www.claddaghrecords.com
Unheard is a collection or rescued archive material from Eddie Clarke a master of Traditional Irish Music on the Chromatic Harmonica. His playing spans three decades from the mid 1960’s to the late 1980’s. He was perhaps the finest player of traditional music on the harmonica, who died in 2004. His recorded output was small: “Crossroads” with Clare fiddler Joe Ryan and “Sailing into Walpole’s Marsh” with Maeve Donnelly which was recorded in the US. Comhaltas has issued this four CD collection of Clarke’s work, mostly his own cassette tapes and session recordings which were discovered after the musicians death. The collection was produced by Antoin MacGabhann who took four years selecting and editing the work, the recording quality is uneven, but this does not detract from the obvious skill and mastery of the harmonica by Clarke.