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, [...]
Last updated: Monday, May 14, 2012.
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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 [...]
FullSet have won the €5000 RTÉ Radio/RAAP traditional music bursary. FullSet is made up Seán McCarthy, Janine Redmond, Andrew Meaney, Teresa Horgan, Michael Harrison and Eamonn Moloney, with members hailing mainly from Munster – Cork and Tipperary – complimented by two Dubs! FullSet released their debut album, Notes at Liberty, earlier this year, and they [...]
Two of the biggest names in Irish music in the USA, Cherish the Ladies and Pride of New York Céilí Band, will feature at a concert during this year’s Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann in Cavan town.
The 60th Birthday Comhaltas Tea Party, at 9.30pm on Friday, August 19, in the Fleadh Big Top (on the Cathedral [...]
A death threat to the High Kings ballad group is under investigation by the Gardai and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
The threat, purporting to be from the hardline Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) against the group, whose members include Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey and Darren Holden, was received by post at the [...]
Michael Flatley at 52 returns this week to the stage in Belfast as Lord of the Dance.
As he opens the show’s latest tour, with himself as the lead, Flatley says he’s not in the least bit worried that age has slowed him down, and that fans will be as thrilled as they always have with [...]
Anybody else notice the word “sport” creeping into the Irish dancing vocabulary? “Irish dance is a great sport,” declares one teaching academy which boasts several North American Irish Dancing Champions among its achievements. About a tenth of such dancing schools drop the word casually on their websites. Elsewhere a dancer tells a forum “how superficial [...]
