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Following a storming St. Patrick’s Night concert with the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, Horslips are set to play London Feis 2011 on Sunday June 19th.

“Celebrating 21 years of Irish music”, London Feis 2011 looks set to be a worthy successor to Vince Power’s legendary London Fleadhs.
Like the Fleadhs, which in their day were highlights of the English festival season, the Feis takes place in Finsbury Park.
London Feis 2011 “an open air event on four stages” sees Bob Dylan headline on Saturday 18th while Sunday night 19th sees Horslips play support to headliner Van Morrison.

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The last six months has seen Horslips play an Irish mini tour climaxing in Dublin’s O2, a January gig in Glasgow as part of Celtic Connections, a set in Croke Park for the Dublin - Mayo game and the Ulster Orchestra concert.
Dates confirmed for later in the year include a special guest appearance at Fairport’s Cropredy Festival in August and a set at the Guinness Festival in Sion, Switzerland.

More gigs by a reformed and reinvigorated Horslips are due to be announced later this year… watch this space!!

http://www.horslips.ie/

http://londonfeis.com/

For further information contact:
Alan Hennessy
0876687914
alan@crashedmusic.com

www.pipers.ie

Tues April 5 –  Sat. April 26, 2011, NGG/The Culture Box, Temple Bar Cultural Trust, 12 Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. Daily 10am to 6pm.

Also featuring Piperlink, inter-active lecture and musical performance which runs for five days during the first week of the exhibition from Tues. April 5 – Sat. April 9, 2011, with two shows daily at 1:15 pm and 5:15pm
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www.horslips.ie

BBC Radio Ulster’s St Patrick’s Day concert at the 2,500 seater Waterfront Concert hall was oversubscribed by more than ten to one when tickets for Horslips concert with the Ulster Orchestra became available.
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August 3rd – 8th, 2011
www.feaklefestival.ie

Feakle in East Clare hosts an annual music festival that attracts music lovers from all corners of the globe. Now in its 24th year the festival is known for its quality music, friendliness and welcome to fans of the music.
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July 29th – August 1st, 2011
www.ocarolanharpfestival.ie

Frankie Gavin & De Danann to play at O’Carolan Harp and Traditional Music Festival Keadue, Co. Roscommon.The world famous traditional group De Danann is booked to play at the Keadue O’Carolan Harp Festival on Sunday night August 1st. The group led by leading fiddle player, Frankie Gavin has played to packed audiences at this venue on numerous occasions over the years. The Festival has established itself over the years as one of Ireland’s leading musical events.
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May 20th – 22nd, 2011
www.galwayearlymusic.com

From the Irish harpers of the 17th century to the court musicians of Europe, with a stop in a medieval alehouse or two, the Galway Early Music Festival, May 20th-22nd, works its musical magic once again. With the old saying in mind, “He who pays the piper calls the tune”, this year’s festival touches a sensitive subject: the relationship between musician and patron. What was the social status of a medieval, renaisance or baroque musician and composer? How does musical innovation happen when a patron has to approve? And what happens when the patrons disappear?
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July 10th – 16th, 2011
www.irishvillageusa.com

The 17th Annual Catskills Irish Arts Week takes place in upstate New York from July 10th to July 16th, 2011 in the picturesque hamlet of East Durham, a destination for the Irish for many decades. The largest group of Irish traditional musicians for any North American Summer School will once again join the highly respected teaching and performing staff along with many of the top North American artists.
Coming over this year from Ireland for the CIAW are Mary Bergin, Kathleen Boyle, John Carty, Mairead Casey, Eamonn and Geraldine Cotter, Matt Cranitch, Paul deGrae, Jackie Daly, Maeve Donnelly, Colm Gannon, Len Graham, Charlie Harris, Kathleen Loughnane, Mirella Murray, Caitlin nic Gabhann, Blackie O’Connell, Conal O’Grada, Padraig Rynne, Jesse Smith and Mary Staunton.
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July 2nd – 10th, 2011
www.oac.ie

Tony Kearns has been documenting Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy since the early 1990’s, and his photographic collections illustrate many aspects of the school – classroom activities, workshops, public recitals, and informal sessions of music, song and dance, the essence of the Willie Clancy week. He has published a selection of his work in Music & Light/Ceol & Solas (2008), and on the opening Saturday of the school will deliver the Breandán Breathnach Memorial Lecture, An Eye for the Music, which discusses the relationship between photography and Irish traditional music. Dingle is the home of a vibrant Wran Boy tradition. Aoife Granville, flute player, tutor at the Willie Clancy School and lecturer at the School of Music, UCC has researched Wran traditions in Munster and in the Monday lecture she focuses on one of the Dingle Wrans, the Sráid Eoin Wran Boys. For the past number of years the Tuesday of summer school week has been devoted to celebrating the life and work of a musician who has made a significant contribution to the Irish musical heritage. This year features the life and music of the Clare fiddle, flute and pipe player, Peadar Ó Lochlainn, who is regarded as one of the masters of the musical tradition. Recently a recording he made with Aggie Whyte in 1963, on the short lived Spól label, was reissued by Na Píobairí Uilleann. Seancheol ar an Seannós is considered a classic among Irish traditional music recordings. The tribute, which features contributions from his friends and fellow musicians, will be coordinated by piper and RTE presenter and producer, Peter Browne. Elizabeth (Bess) Cronin, “The Muskerry Queen of Song”, will be the topic of Wednesday’s lecture when her grandson, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, examines his grandmother’s important legacy to Irish traditional song. He published a complete collection of her songs, The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin, in 2000. Charlie Piggott, founder member of De Danann and accordion and banjo player, will conclude the lecture series on Thursday when he explores the music of Galway box player, Joe Cooley, a musician who had strong associations with Clare music and musicians and was an influential figure in traditional music.
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April 29th – May 2nd, 2011
wwwcupoftaefestival.com

The Cup Of Tae Festival May bank holiday weekend is this year celebrating its tenth anniversary. Based around one of Donegal’s most famous fiddlers John the Tae Gallagher, the festival is now a firmly established date on the calender of events. What makes it special? For many it is the spontanous session that can just happen in this lovely town of Ardara, the many famous musicians that just turn up or the famous schools of music that is synonous with this festival and of coarse the wonderful warmth of the people of this picturesqe village on Donegals western seashore.
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April 14th – 17th, 2011
www.comhaltas.ie/events
The Féile Patrick Byrne takes place on the weekend before Easter in and around Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. Now in its fifth year this community festival commemorates the local nineteenth century harper Patrick Byrne who was the first Irish traditional musician ever photographed.
The festival will be launched with the annual Patrick Byrne lecture on Thursday 14th April. Then on Friday 15th Seána Davey, one of Ireland’s most accomplished young harpers, will give an intimate concert in the atmospheric setting of St. Finbarr’s Church. Featuring material from her recent debut album this promises to be a very special occasion.
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