The Fianna Fail Government was returned to office for an historic third term in June and with the new look coalition came a reshuffle of cabinet posts. The new man in charge of Arts Sports and Tourism is Seamus Brennan.
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The world’s biggest Celtic festival takes to the streets taverns and quaysides of L’orient in Brittany during the first week of August. With over 20 different venues spread throughout the town and attendances at around 650,000 people. it is on a scale like no other festival in the world.
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Peerie Willie Johnson, the Shetland’s guitar man passed away on Tuesday 22nd May. His name may be permanently prefixed with the Shetland dialect word for “small”, in reference to his diminutive stature, but as a guitarist. Willie Johnson has long been revered as an international giant.
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15-18 November, 2007
Eastwood Hall Conference Centre, Eastwood, Nottingham
Over 350 people are expected to gather for the biggest series of seminars, presentations, debates and training opportunities the folk music industry has ever seen. With the current explosion of interest in folk, these events offer an opportunity to help this new wave continue and create an even brighter future for this music.
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TO ROLL OUT IN THE FALL,
VANCOUVER-TORONTO NOVEMBER 3rd-7th, 2007
A five-day adventure across Canada! Every day promise non-stop music and fun: workshops, open mic sessions and evening concerts. Three days and nights on board our own private section of the legendary streamliner “The Canadian” running through the Rockies from Vancouver to Toronto, 3,000 miles on the rails that built a nation!
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September 15th & 16th, 2007
As an exciting kick-off to this special weekend, on Friday evening before the Festival you can experience ‘From Galway to Broadway’, A Tribute to Frank Patterson, Ireland’s Golden Tenor.
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Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill are to play a concert in aid of the Midlands Simon Community at Capital Cars BMW Showrooms on Saturday the 7th of July at 8.30p.m
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The next preview concert for the 2007 Return to Camden Town Festival will take place on Friday 13th July at the London Irish Centre, 50-52 Camden Square, LONDON NW1 9XB - Tel: 020 7916 7272. Doors open at 8 pm. Tickets £5.
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Veteran folk song collector Tom Munnelly is very ill and some of his collegues and friends have assembled a festschrift of 24 essays in his honour, the details of which are to be found on the O.A.C (Oidhreacht An Chláir) website www.oac.ie
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It seemed like a good idea and it certainly was judging the quality of the recording that was made at last year’s event. The idea is simple, invite the best session musicians from pubs all over Ireland to Clare in September, they are then let loose to play in the pubs so as to find the best session in the country.
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