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Benefitting Wauwatosa Community Food Pantry
Local Irish Band Tallymoore to Headline Christmas Show
Milwaukee Irish Fest will present a special holiday concert featuring local Irish band, Tallymoore on Saturday December 15, 2012 at 8 p.m. at the Irish Fest Center, located at 1532 Wauwatosa Avenue in Milwaukee, Wis. The event will bring the Celtic Christmas spirit to life while benefiting the Wauwatosa Food Pantry.
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Wed. 24th – Mon. 29th October 2012
Ten Days to Go!! The Countdown has begun for SLIGO LIVE 2012
SUNDAY, 29th OCT. - LONDON CALLING @ SLIGO LIVE
4.00pm – The Glasshouse Hotel - ROGER SHERLOCK
‘London Calling’ is Sligo Live’s celebration of London-Irish Music with a host of musicians flocking to Sligo over the October Bank Holiday weekend. Sligo Live’s traditional music programme would outshine many a fleadh beginning with a massive celebration of London-Irish music led by 80 year old Roger Sherlock. (more…)
8, 9 and 10 February 2013
Miltown Malbay
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Oidhreacht an Chláir presents the first annual Concertina Cruinniú on 8, 9 and 10 February 2013 in Miltown Malbay.
While well-established annual events such as the uilleann pipers’ Tionól, the harpists’ Cúirt Cruitearachta, Cruinniú na bhFliúit in Cúil Aodha and Cairdeas na bhFidléirí’s fiddle week in Glencolumcille provide a forum for enthusiasts and practitioners on most traditional instruments, there has been no similar celebration of the concertina in Ireland for a number of years.
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LARRY REYNOLDS 1932 ~ 2012
Fiddle player Larry Reynolds has passed away on October 3rd in Boston. Larry was born in Ahascragh, County Galway into a large family, he was one of thirteen children. He began fiddle lessons at age 10. Before leaving Ireland to come to Boston, he played with many céili bands. In Boston he was elected the first chairman of the Hanafin-Cooley branch of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann which he founded. We had the pleasure of meeting Larry personally when the IMM team visited Boston College and also heard Larry play on many occasions in America including a visit he made to the Milwaukee Irish Fest.
The Hanafin Cooley branch posted this short tribute to their founding father: “He worked tirelessly to promote and share his love for Irish culture through music and friendship. Condolences to his wife Phyllis and family, as well as to his extended family of musicians, dancers and community members that extends across the globe.He will be sadly missed, and it’s safe to say that his like will not be seen again. “
Writing on Facebook, his nephew Pat expressed this heartfelt tribute to Larry - “Larry Reynolds has passed away, though his legacy and love for the music will live on in all of us who played with, danced to or just enjoyed his company. To all who learned from and played with the man, condolences. To those who had the pleasure of playing with him for almost 45 years, as I have, keep the love alive, and pass it on. RIP Larry and thank you for some of the best times of my life.”
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
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Macalla na hÉireann 2012, the famous Comhaltas Concert Tour of Ireland, arrives in Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin on Thursday 18th October 2012
This annual Tour features the best of traditional talent drawn from the four Provinces of Ireland, they will perform at 14 venues from 14th to 27th October. Each year the tour assembles a fine mix of established artistes together with up-and-coming young stars. These are blended together into a fast-moving and colourful show that appeals to both the connoisseurs and peripheral fans of Irish traditional entertainment- a show that reflects the breadth and depth of music, dance and song.
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Sunday 7th October 8pm
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Celebrating the enduring legacy of Seamus Ennis
The Ace & Deuce of Piping Concert at Liberty Hall 2012
Na Píobairí Uilleann presents The Ace & Deuce of Piping Concert - A night of traditional Irish music at Liberty Hall, Dublin. Sun Oct. 7, 2012
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Raylene Rankin from Mabou Cape Breton has died after a long fight with cancer at the age of 52.
She battled 3 bouts of cancer and was in remission last year when she began work on her first solo album for 7 years. That CD All The Diamonds was released in 2012 and took its title from the Spring flowers which Rankin said were like ‘little diamonds’ , spots of spring hope after a long winter battle against the disease.
The Rankin Family was together for ten years and sold more than 2 million records, won six Juno awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards and 15 East Coast Music Awards.
The well-known harp player has died. Antoinette was the sister of Ireland’s most famous whistle player Mary Bergin and the wife of piper Joe McKenna. Joe and Antoinette recorded and performed together and were extremely popular on the Dublin trad circuit and internationally.
Irish Music Magazine would like to offer condolences to Joe and the Bergin family on their sad loss.
Niamh Ni Charra has a very interesting project and she is looking for funding to bring it to fruition. She is trying to raise the necessary finance via www.Fundit.ie.
Niamh told us “In 1928 Kerry musician and composer Terry “Cuz” Teahan emigrated to Chicago where he lived and continued to play and pass on tunes, until his death in 1989. Prior to leaving Ireland he had been taught music by the Sliabh Luachra legend Padraig O’ Keeffe, and he was responsible for many Irish American musicians learning this style of music, the repertoire of this area, and many of his own compositions. In fact many local tunes would have been lost were it not for Cuz. On his last visit home before he died he saw me play (I was very young!) and on his return to Chicago he made a tape for me of his own tunes as well as some of these old tunes that had been forgotten. That tape is now 25–years–old and a prized possession but I feel it should also be shared. Therefore for my fourth album I’d like to make a tribute to him, playing his compositions that he often never got credit for, along with a sample of the old tunes he helped preserve. This is being carried out with the full backing and delight of his family, and to make the album extra special I have invited many well–known guest musicians from both Kerry and Chicago to join me, all of whom knew and were influenced by Cuz. This is a celebration of the traditional music style of Sliabh Luachra and the wonderful character that was “Cuz” Teahan. Guest musicians include Seamus Begley, Liz Carroll, Jimmy Keane and Donal Murphy.”
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The Muskegon Irish American Society has established the Michigan Irish American Hall of Fame. The purpose of which is to recognise past and present Irish Americans with substantial ties to Michigan who have made significant contributions in areas such as Public Service, Philanthropy, Business and Industry, Arts and Entertainment, Religion, Education, and Sports. The Hall of Fame is physically housed in Hennessy’s Restaurant in Muskegon, and will be available worldwide on its own website.
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