This weekend Dublin City Hall plays host to a gala benefit concert for the Pecker Dunne. The event which takes place on Sunday, January 29 at 5pm, and is organised by writer, actor and Dublin City Councillor Mannix Flynn as part of this year’s Temple Bar Tradfest, aims to raise funds for Pecker. The singer, [...]
Flute player Tim McHugh from Newport in Mayo was announced as winner of the Seán Ó Riada gold medal and prize money of €2500 on Friday night. He was amongst 15 traditional flute and whistle players who took to the stage in the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork on Friday 13 [...]
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Dates, venues, locations and weblinks for Irish traditional music, singing festivals, summer schools and workshops for 2012
For a list of Comhaltas fleadhanna, click Here
Please note: Where the 2012 dates are not yet available, the 2011 dates are indicated.
January
Shannonside Winter Music Weekend
Sixmilebridge, Co Clare
January12 – 15
http://www.wmw.ie
Temple Bar Trad Festival
Dublin
January 25 – 29
www.templebartrad.com
Ballincollig Winter Music Festival
Ballincollig, Co Cork
January 25 – 29
http://www.whitehorse.ie/
Merriman Winter School
Hotel Westport, [...]
The music of composer Seán Ó Riada will be celebrated by Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) when a unique arrangement of his Mass is performed on Sunday, March 10, 2012, in Dundalk.
The new arrangement was completed by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky. A native of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he most recently has been a composer-in-residence at Harvard University and [...]
A new series of the popular TG4 traditional music programme Geantraí, will be broadcast on TG4 starting on Sunday, January 29, 2012, for a 13 week run. The programme will be repeated on Fridays at 8pm on TG4.
The series which has built up a loyal audience among traditional music followers in Ireland and abroad will [...]
After a rollercoaster week of about-turns and top level political intervention, Derry has been selected to host the 2013 All-Ireland Fleadh, the first time the event will take place in Northern Ireland.The 31-member central executive of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Éireann met in Dublin yesterday (January 28) to decide between Derry, Sligo and Ennis for an event [...]
Oidhreacht an Chláir has launched a new masterclass series in Irish traditional music in Miltown Malbay this February.
The series will start off with musician Noel Hill’s concertina masterclass on the weekend of February 3, 4 and 5 at Áras OaC, Flag Road, Miltown Malbay.
This is an intensive course aimed at the advanced and advanced intermediate [...]
