www.morga.ie

Young traditional group Mórga will launch their self-titled debut album in June. Mórga was founded in 2007 by four young musicians to create a band inspired by the sound and sheer energy of the great traditional Irish bands of the seventies. The band is based around accordion, fiddle and banjo as melody instruments, with backing provided by the rarely heard Greek bouzouki, creating rich high-end harmonies, and driven by the bass beat of the bodhran. The aim is to recreate a part of our musical heritage, which is too often lost in contemporary Irish music.
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www.theroyal.ie
She has long held the attention of the followers of Irish music as one of the finest female vocalists in the world, and Mary Black has now confirmed that she will play live in concert at the Royal Theatre, Castlebar on 4th August.

Mary’s distinguished career has spanned over 25 years from her early days in Dublin folk clubs through ever-escalating success with seven platinum solo albums one of which - No Frontiers - spent fifty-six weeks in the Irish Top 30. Needless to say Mary Black is a seminal figure in Irish musical history and one of the artists responsible for its relatively recent blossoming on a global level.
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Bank Holiday Sunday 2nd August 2009

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Moving Hearts will play the Royal Theatre in Castlebar on Sunday August 2nd 2009 over the bank holiday weekend

Unfinished business!” was the reply given by Noel Eccles when asked why Moving Hearts were reforming, “when we last played in Ireland, the UK and at some European festivals in 1987, it was as an instrumental band and we always felt that we hadn’t finished exploring the possibilities of our unique line-up”. Many people in Ireland were happy to see Moving Hearts back together as an instrumental band and duly filled Dublin’s Vicar Street for 4 successive nights in February 2007.
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www.DeDannan.com
For many years traditional super group De Dannan were the forerunners in the Irish traditional music world but after 33 years, 14 albums and a number of changes in the line-up, the group disbanded in 2003.

This July, original founding member and world famous fiddle player Frankie Gavin will unleash a new De Dannan which in his own words “will reflect a De Dannan of the 21st century”.
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After the Morning is the eagerly anticipated new album from Roscommon born accordionist, Alan Kelly. One of the busiest performers on the traditional and folk music scene, it’s hard to believe that it’s
almost a decade since Kelly’s last solo outing. Nonetheless, in that time Alan has reaffirmed his stature as one of Ireland’s top musicians touring and recording with artists such as De Dannan, Arty McGlynn, Eddi Reader, Lúnasa, and Michael McGoldrick.
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www.coscan.net

Coscán have been together for over a decade and their new CD, Dinnseanchas: Lore of Places, takes the listener on musical journey which mixes old and new, songs and instrumental music. Dinnseanchas creates its own musical lore through a diverse range of styles. The original music includes Irish reels, hornpipes, airs and the atmospheric Tara Jig, which tries to evoke the ambience of Ireland’s
ancient capital.
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www.summersong.co.uk

‘Confidence Building Through Singing’ 6th to 10th July, 2009, Warrenpoint Town Hall, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, is now in its tenth year. Summersong is an intensive five-day course for singers.
It is suitable for singers at all levels of their development and suitable for all styles of music (minimum age 14). There is no audition process. It is directed by singer, Radio and TV presenter
Fil Campbell.

Find out more by visiting www.summersong.co.uk

www.sixfm.co.uk

Veteran singer and Gradam Ceoil recipient Sarah Anne O’Neill embodies
the rich Tyrone singing tradition, and is a member of an illustrious
singing family. She will appear on a special edition of the Radio
show Celtic Bridge on Sunday June 7th. Set your alarms as this is an
early morning show.
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Traditional flautist, Marcas Ó Murchú will be presenting a thirteen-
part radio series, Turas Ceoil, of traditional Irish music on RTE-
RnaG on Monday evenings at 7pm, from mid-June to late August.
Musicians are invited to send CD’s for airplay to Marcas at the
address below.

As some of these programmes will be pre-recorded, you
are invited to send your music as soon as possible. Music, especially
rare recordings or from local or not so well known musicians or
emigrant CD recordings from any era to the present from the Irish
Diaspora will be very welcome.

Send your recordings to:
Marcas Ó Murchú
RTE-RnaG, 17 Cooleen Park
Culmore, Derry BT48 8AQ

The Xi’An Sí
www.myspace.com/thexiansi

The name The Xi’An Sí ( pronounced ‘Shee Ann Shee’) is an amalgamation of both the Chinese and Irish languages. ‘Xi’An’ being the city where the group first established themselves, and ‘Sí’ being derived from that most fascinating of Irish traditions, the fairy.
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