www.ballyopromotions.ie
‘Outstanding Irish Music for Worldwide Audiences….’
BallyO Promotions is a music agency focusing on the appreciation of Irish music and working to promote the best in Irish entertainment.
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www.fiddlesafari.com

It’s cultural and educational project with a new and innovative and fun approach to investigating and show-casing the art of traditional Irish fiddle music. ‘Fiddle Safari’ is the brainchild of fiddle player, Brendan Larrissey who will be hosting & participating in each ‘Fiddle Safari’ weekend throughout 2010. Brendan says he is really looking forward to the tunes, the sessions and the craic! The Irish fiddle, being one of the oldest instruments in our tradition, with its many different regional styles and is an integral part of traditional music. Irish fiddle music is loved and appreciated throughout the world and has a major influence on the traditional music of all the Celtic countries.
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www.thedubliners.org

Three significant Dubliner’s anniversaries occur this year: Luke Kelly’s 25th, Ciarán Bourke’s 21st and Ronnie Drew’s first anniversary.

To mark this special year, The Dubliners are paying a tribute to their former colleagues by way of a presentation of archive photos, video clips and old sound tracks in their concerts. They will perform in three special home town concerts on 28th, 29th and 30th of December at Vicar Street. John Sheahan has already written poems in honour of Luke and Ronnie and has now added a new poem called “Remembering Ciarán Bourke”. These will be featured in the tributes. Using video clips of selected songs from the past, a collaboration between the old group and the present line-up on stage will be achieved, bridging past and present. Barney McKenna is the only surviving original Dubliner, having formed the band with Like Kelly, Ciaran Bourke and Ronnie Drew in 1962. John Sheahan joined in 1964.
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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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