www.dunuladh.ie

Bands aren’t often in the business of celebrating their own centenary, but successive generations, each fired by a love of traditional music, have kept the Kilfenora Céilí Band, who will play the Dún Uladh Centre in Omagh later this month energised and evolving since 1909. Longevity is literally the stuff of life in traditional music though, and the Kilfenora Céilí Band certainly has proved their durability over the last century.
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www.jimmymchugh.com

SATURDAY 9th JANUARY 2010 WOODSIDE HALLS, GLENFARG ST, GLASGOW @ 8pm

Tickets from TRON THEATRE BOX OFFICE 0141 552 4267 or 0141 569 3557 / 07855 292062

Artistes booked to date include

TOMAS O’ CANAINN PIPES/SONG CO CORK
CHARLIE HARRIS ACCORDION CO GALWAY
VINCENT GRIFFIN FIDDLE CO CLARE
PAULINE HANLEY SINGER CO DONEGAL
IAN Mc DONALD FLUTE GLENUIG, SCOTLAND

Plus there promises to be many more attending the concert and weekend. For all enquiries, tickets and accomodation contact www.jimmymchugh.com or Email mchugh@irish-music.fsnet.co.uk.

www.bc.edu/gaelicroots

Gaelic Roots Music, Song, Dance, Workshop and Lecture Series, and
John J. Burns Library Irish Music Exhibitions
Gaelic Roots Series Director: Séamus Connolly, Sullivan Artist-in-Residence

Saturday, Nov. 14 - Gasson Hall, 12:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
John McCormack Celebration, http://www.bc.edu/mccormack
Film screening, symposium, lecture, and concert, celebrating the 125th
anniversary of the birth of the legendary tenor, Count John McCormack. John
McCormack earned worldwide fame as a recitalist with a unique repertoire,
combining classical music, folk ballads and sacred music - all sung with his
distinctive tenor voice. The 12:30 p.m. film, John McCormack: the People’s
Tenor (82 minutes) will precede a 2:00 symposium led by Hankus Netsky (New
England Conservatory) and Mick Moloney (New York University). Paul Brock,
distinguished traditional musician from Athlone, Ireland, will give a
lecture at 4:00 p.m., “Impressions of the Great Irish Tenor.” At 5:30 p.m.,
the John J. Burns Library will host the exhibition, “John McCormack, Tenor:
Celebrating 125 Years,” with remarks by ethnomusicologist Ann Spinney
(Boston College). The weekend will conclude with a 7:00 p.m. concert
organized by Sullivan Artist-in-Residence Seamus Connolly. Performers
include operatic tenor Bryan Griffin, Broadway singer Ciaran Sheehan,
violinist Bonnie Bewick Brown, pianist Timothy Steele, singer and
multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Donohue, folklorist Mick Moloney, and Sullivan
Artist-in-Residence Séamus Connolly.
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www.sharonshannon.com

New Single out soon featuring The Waterboys

Taken from Sharon Shannon’s Top 5 album SAINTS AND SCOUNDRELS, the new single, Saints and Angels, (available to download via itunes from Nov. 27th) sees Sharon reunited with The Waterboys after a 20 year hiatus with this unique one-off lineup.
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www.IrishSurroundSound.com

Kilcolgan Audio Studio presents the first surround sound recording of Irish Traditional Music. It features a compilation of surround sound recordings of a variety of musicians in order to showcase the exceptional quality of Irish Traditional Music when delivered in 5.1 High Fidelity Surround Sound. The recording is available on DVD format and can be played on any DVD-player or Blu-Ray player that has DTS Surround Sound. In addition it will play with exceptional studio quality on DVD-Audio capable players in a high resolution format recording that is included on the DVD.
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Frankie Gavin conferred with an Honourary Masters of Music at NUI Galway
www.nuig.ie

Frankie Gavin was born in 1956 in Corrandulla, Co. Galway. He comes from a musical family: his father played fiddle, and, his mother and all of her family played also. He started playing the tin whistle at age four, making his first T.V. appearance three years later. At the age of ten years old Frankie began to play fiddle and at the age of seventeen he placed first in the All-Ireland Fiddle Competition and in the All-Ireland Flute Competition, both on the same day. Mainly learning by ear, he was strongly influenced by the 78 recordings of Michael Coleman and James Morrison. Sessions in the Cellar Bar, Galway and later in Hughes’ pub in Spiddal led to the formation of De Dannan in 1973. He has recorded 16 albums with De Dannan as well as a number of solo albums, and three collaborations: one a tribute to Joe Cooley entitled ‘Omos do Joe Cooley’ with Paul Brock; a fine collaboration with fellow De Dannan member Alec Finn; and one with Stephane Grapelli exploring the languages of jazz and traditional music. He has also guested with The Rolling Stones on their ‘Voodoo Lounge’ album, with Keith Richards on ‘Wingless Angels’ and with Earl Scruggs the great banjo man.

www.spirtstore.ie

Dundalk’s Spirit Store celebrated Its 10th Birthday on October 29th
Back in late October 1999 when Mark Dearey and his business partner of the time, Mark Mulholland, first launched Dundalk’s Spirit Store gigs happened in a tiny performance space capable of holding 63 souls which was, in effect, two upstairs bedrooms knocked into one. The Spirit Store had been a dockside pub owned by the Mee family but had been closed for a number of years. Mark Dearey’s vision was to re-open it as a place where live music could flourish. Derek Turner was recruited to take care of the sound and the venue’s reputation for caring about the sound was set in place from the first night it opened.
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A Tribute to the late Seamus Creagh
St Brendan’s Church, Bantry

www.westcorkmusic.ie

West Cork Music presents the much anticipated Concert for Seamus - a tribute to the late fiddle player Seamus Creagh.

On Friday 27 November at 8pm in St Brendan’s Church in Bantry, fiddler Matt Cranitch will be joined by an impressive line-up of some of the finest traditional musicians in the country. All friends of Seamus, many are travelling great distances to come to Bantry to pay tribute to the much loved musician.

Accordion players Aidan Coffey and Jackie Daly join fiddle players Tommy Peoples and Geraldine O’Callaghan, De Dannan’s Colm Murphy (bodhrán), flute player Hammy Hamilton, Pat Ahern on bouzouki, Con Ó Drisceoil (melodeon) and singers Danny and Eoiní Maidhcí Ó Suilleabháin for what promises to be a memorable night.

All proceeds from this event will go to the Bridge Co-op in Cork City, a charity close to Seamus’ heart.

Tickets ; € 25, € 15
Bookings : West Cork Music, 13 Glengarriff Rd, Bantry, Co Cork
027 52788 Lo Call 1850 788 789
www.westcorkmusic.ie

www.nuigalway.ie

The Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway is delighted to announce a second series of workshops with renowned Sean-Nós Dancer-in-Residence, Seosamh Ó Neachtain.

A graduate of NUI Galway, Seosamh Ó Neachtain is one of a handful of performers who have rejuvenated the Gaeltacht tradition of sean-nós dancing, introducing the athleticism and sophistication of a dynamic but neglected art form to national and international audiences. He has performed on concert stages throughout the world with some of the finest exponents of traditional music, including Altan, De Danann, Máirtín O’Connor, Harry Bradley, Jesse Smith, Johnny Connolly, and Róisín Elsafty.
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www.sligolive.ie

Click on www.sligolive.ie this weekend to watch live Irish Music pub sessions direct from Sligo Ireland

This weekend Ireland’s biggest winter music festival begins. From Friday 23rd October Sligo Live embraces the digital age by broadcasting some of the Festival’s top Traditional Sessions live on the internet. Our world class musicians will be sitting waiting to play the occasional request while playing spellbinding and dynamic traditional Irish music live from one of Ireland’s music capital’s Sligo.
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