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October 1st – 4th, 2009
The 30th Beamish Cork Folk Festival will take place between Thursday 1st October and Sunday 4th October 2009 at venues all over Cork City and everybody is invited. This is our 30th Festival and we plan to run an event that celebrates 30 years of great music, concerts, sessions and memories.
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Nollaig Casey, Arty McGlynn, Máire Ní Chathasaigh and Chris Newman
Date: Thursday July 2
Venue: Concert Hall, An Grianán, Termonfechin, Co Louth
Start time: 8.30pm
Box Office: 087 2800390
Tickets: €16 / €10
This is the final gala concert of the 24th International Festival for Irish
Harp - a fantastic week of concerts and workshops held under the auspices of
Cairde na Cruite - see www.cairdenacruite.com. It’s really good fun and I’ve
been teaching at it every year since it started in 1985.
HEADS WEST WITH A HOST OF TOP IRISH & INTERNATIONAL NAMES
CASTLEBAR 31st JULY – 8th AUGUST
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The World Fleadh, Ireland’s Traditional Folk & Celtic Music Festival coming to Castlebar, Co. Mayo 31st July – 8th August, will feature performances by the top Irish and international names in Folk, Trad and Celtic Music.
After the outstanding success of the 2008 festival in Portlaoise, The World Fleadh returns with headlining acts including the Saw Doctors, Sharon Shannon, Shane MacGowan, Eddi Reader, Moving Hearts and Damien Dempsey.
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The 18th Phil Murphy Weekend which this year commerates the 20th anniversary of the great harmonica players passing will be held in Carrif on Bannow in South County Wexford from July 24th to July 26th. The Festival features top class acts, Sharon Shannon and Renegade 09 featuring Mike McGoldrick, Gerry O’ Connor (Banjo), Dezi Donnelly and Tim Edey, At the Racket, Buille, Dermot Byrne, Dezi Donnelly and Steve Cooney, Jimmy Crowley, The Buffalo Gals, The Sullivan Brothers, The Jukebox Gypsies, Gerry O’ Connor (Fiddle), Kevin Coneff, John and Pip Murphy plus many more.
A weekend of terrific concerts, sessions, workshops, ceili, historical tour and a launch of a dvd documentary commerating Phil Murphy and the Festvial will be performed by Liam Griffin at the opening on Thursday 23rd July which is Phil Murphy’s 20th anniversary.
For Further Information Tel. 051 561159 OR 087 8200986
Workshop Information Tel. 051 561370 OR 087 3191193
Accommodation Tel. 051 561101 OR 0876859868
E-mail philmurphyweekend@hotmail.com
www.philmurphyweekend.com
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More than A Score of Top Irish Entertainers Provide
40 Hours of Nightly Concerts and Workshops
ROSLYN, PA - More than 40 hours of traditional Irish entertainment will highlight the 19th Annual Irish Festival Cruise aboard MSC’s Poesia departing from Fort Lauderdale on January 23, 2010.
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Liam Clancy is unwell. He should have headlined the Saturday night concert at Carrick on Suir’s Clancy Brother’s Festival on June 13th but was unable to attend due to poor health.
His manager David Teevan apologised to the 600+ sell out crowd and told them that Liam was suffering from fibrosis of the lungs which made it difficult for him to breath and he reluctantly would not be able to sing this evening.
The singer Maxi had visited Liam earlier in the afternoon, as part of a writing project she is carrying out and said he was in great spirits, was working on editing an autobiographical movie, and she conveyed his best wishes and apologies for not being 100% to perform on the night. Each act on the night spoke warmly about Liam and all were quick to add that his contribution to our lives was immeasureable.
The show became a tribute to Liam Clancy, it included performances by Kevin Evans, members of Danu and a finale led by Liams’ nephew Finbarr Clancy.
We send our best wishes to Liam and his family and wish him a speedy recovery.
Cheers
Sean L
www.eigsecarlow.ie
The cream of Irish traditional musicians will gather in Carlow town during the weekend of 19th to the 21st June. The atmospheric and historical Teach Dolmain pub is one of the venues for the ‘mini-fleadh’ weekend, but the session may move around the town as sessions normally do! Kicking off on Friday evening, the 19th June, a fine caliber of musicians will participate including Tom Morrow (fiddle), Triona Flavin (flute), John Morrow (banjo), Leonard Barry (uileann pipes), Geraldine Clancy (fiddle), Sean Fitzpatrick (guitar) and John Joe Kelly (bodhrán) as well as a many more local and visiting musicians, singers and dancers.
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‘For those who really know their traditional music, the Mulcahy Family must rank as one of the most impressive musical families in Ireland today.’
– Martin Hayes, from the sleevenotes of Reelin’ in Tradition
Following their outstanding 2005 recording Notes from the Heart on the Cló Iar-Chonnachta label, Mick Mulcahy and his daughters Louise (26) and Michelle (24) are back with a new album, Reelin’ in Tradition.
If their first album was a revelation for the rhythmic and beautiful Mulcahy sound – as well as the virtuosity across several instruments of Michelle and Louise – Reelin’ in Tradition presents a new level of musicianship exploring their collective repertoire.
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Following his critically-acclaimed duet album with fiddler John McEvoy on the Cló Iar-Chonnachta label in 2007, Roscommon flute-player John Wynne releases a new album which brings his solo playing back into focus.
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Sweetwood is the name of the area in Co. Leitrim where his father hails from, and Sweetwood is the name of Dervish flute-player Liam Kelly’s debut album.
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