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wed17aug8:00 pmSeán KeaneTown Hall Theatre, The Octagon, Westport, Co. Mayo8:00 pm The Return Tour

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Back by popular demand for his fourth annual Summer residency following an unprecented ten-night sellout run in the summer of 2017, and another sellout run in
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Back by popular demand for his fourth annual Summer residency following an unprecented ten-night sellout run in the summer of 2017, and another sellout run in Summer 2018 and 2019, Seán Keane will perform at Westport Town Hall Theatre every Wednesday from July 13 to August 31. Seán will be joined by Pat Coyne, and Fergus Feely.
Decribed as the “greatest musical find of the 90s” by The London Independent. Seán’s repertoire encompasses traditional, folk and even country and blues songs. Growing up in a family of singers and musicians, Seán learned the sean-nós style of singing from his mother and his aunts.
Singing was his life, even in early childhood; by the time Seán reached his teens, he had collected thirteen All-Ireland medals in Fleadh Ceoil competitions. He was by then an accomplished whistle and flute player and had taken up the uilleann pipes and bodhran.
When he joined his first group, Shegui, he had already served a long apprenticeship; after travelling throughout Europe with the band, he left to join Reel Union, a group which also featured sister Dolores and accordion player Máirtín O`Connor. Later, he was part of Arcady, with such well known names as Johnny `Ringo` McDonagh, Sharon Shannon and Frances Black.
After a short flirtation with the theatre when he played in the Druid production of The Midnight Court and the Abbey Theatre`s Sheep`s Milk on the Boil, Seán embarked on his solo career in 1993. All Heart , No Roses received rave reviews and was chosen as Debut Folk Album of the Year by Q Magazine. In the years following, success continued with Meteor Award nominations, Best Male Folk Performer from Irish Music Magazine (three times) ,a similar award from the London Irish World,as well as numerous Irish accolades. A Portrait, a collection of Seán`s songs, was a multi-platinum Irish seller. All of his solo albums are platinum sellers and remain in constant demand. Seán Keane continues to delight audiences all over the world with his live performances and recorded work. He tours regularly with his band in Ireland, Austria, Germany, the US and Canada as well as appearing at major festivals worldwide.
Seán’s tenth solo album, New Day Dawning, is proving very popular with his fans, Seán continues to get much radio play with songs like Isle of Hope Isle of Tears, Galway to Graceland and Home Way from Home still proving very popular with his listeners. New material like Paint Me a Picture of Ireland, Nature’s Little Symphony, Don’t Teach Me How to Cry and One More Hour are now becoming standards in his show.
Tickets, each costing €25, are available from https://www.onlinetickets.ie/tickets/se-n-keane-241446#buy.
Time
(Wednesday) 8:00 pm
Location
Town Hall Theatre
The Octagon, Westport, Co. Mayo

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Dermot Byrne returns to Kilcar in his native Donegal, with Clare’s Yvonne Casey to celebrate the release of their duo album, As We Feel It, along with accompanist par excellence
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Dermot Byrne returns to Kilcar in his native Donegal, with Clare’s Yvonne Casey to celebrate the release of their duo album, As We Feel It, along with accompanist par excellence Steve Cooney
From Buncrana in Inishowen, Dermot Byrne’s accordion playing was honed in an environment heavily influenced by Donegal fiddle tradition exemplified by players like Johnny Doherty, Con Cassidy, Tommy Peoples and Francie Mooney. Over his many years of playing, Dermot has developed a unique style. His seemingly effortless playing, combined with great subtlety, and a faultless ear, makes him one of the great accordion players of his generation. As well as his mastery of the Donegal style and repertoire, Dermot can turn with ease to other styles and traditions such as French musette, or South American music. He guested on two Altan recordings The Red Crow and Island Angel before joining the band in 1994. Among the many other artists he has recorded and performed with are Dolly Parton, John Prine, Stephane Grappelli, Vince Gill, Mary Black, Tim O’Brien, Alison Krauss, Paul Brady, Paddy Keenan and Frankie Gavin.
Yvonne Casey grew up in Corofin surrounded by the richness of Clare music and plays fiddle in a very unique soulful style. Sitting in sessions from a very young age she discovered the joys of Doolin as a teen, where she met and played with musicians like Micho Russell, Kevin Griffin and Eoin O’ Neill. Yvonne created her own music school in Co. Clare, and performs and teaches at various festivals at home, abroad and online. In 2018 Yvonne released her second solo CD entitled Croí which includes many of her own new compositions. Some of her compositions are showcased in the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin as part of a series called Saothar. Her recent collaboration with Dermot Byrne is charming audiences with their fresh new sound, and in December 2021 they released an all new compositional album entitled As We Feel It.
Dermot and Yvonne will be joined by the ubiquitous Steve Cooney, best known for his development of an influential style of guitar accompaniment to the traditional dance music of West Kerry, for which he won the National Entertainment Award in 1997. Born in Melbourne Australia in 1953, he came to Ireland in 1980. He has ancestral links with Tipperary, Cavan and Galway. He has participated in making more than 250 CDs, either as a guitar or bass player or as producer and engineer. He has worked with many iconic international artists in rock and country but his primarily focus is Irish traditional music, and fusions of that genre. In 2020 he released a CD of solo guitar interpretations of ancient harp tunes, Ceol Ársa Cláirsí, which won three awards at the 2020 RTÉ Folk Awards as well as being named Irish Times traditional album of the year. He was also given a Lifetime Achievement award by RTÉ. He completed an M.Litt.Ed in 2011 and a Ph.D. in 2018 on an intuitive musical notation system that he has developed for early learners and those who have difficulties with staff notation.
Doors open from 7.30pm.
Tickets, each costing €15, are available from Áislann reception at 074-9738376 or eolas@aislann.ie. Payment by card or cash available.
Time
(Friday) 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location
Áislann Cill Chartha Ionad Cultúrtha
Lower Main Street, Kilcar, Co. Donegal
sat20aug12:00 pmsat2:00 pmSaturday Summer Trad Sessionglór, Ennis, Co. Clare12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Led by Eoin O’Neill, glor’s Summer Trad sessions will take place every Saturday in August. The sessions are free of charge and non-ticketed. Award winning musician Eoin O’Neill will be joined
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Led by Eoin O’Neill, glor’s Summer Trad sessions will take place every Saturday in August. The sessions are free of charge and non-ticketed.
Award winning musician Eoin O’Neill will be joined by special guest musicians from Clare for these fun trad sessions for all ages each Saturday in glór foyer. Perfect for anyone who wants to keep active playing during the summer!
Eoin has lived in Clare for the past thirty years and has been an integral part of the traditional music landscape in the county. In 2015 Eoin was presented with the MÓRglór award for Outstanding Contribution to Traditional Music in County Clare and he is famous for his informal music sessions and classes in many venues throughout the county.
This week’s special guest will be fiddler, Pamela Queally.
Time
(Saturday) 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location
glór
Ennis, Co. Clare
sat20aug8:00 pmChristy MooreLeisureland, Salthill Road Lower, Galway City8:00 pm

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Christy Moore has played an integral role in the evolution of music on this island. Aside from his long and productive solo career, he is a founding member of the
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Christy Moore has played an integral role in the evolution of music on this island. Aside from his long and productive solo career, he is a founding member of the iconic bands Planxty and Moving Hearts. His powerfully relatable stories of the human condition resonate beyond the community.
Christy released his new album Flying into Mystery, in November 2021, featuring a collection of twelve songs. Speaking about his latest project, Christy said ‘It has been a very different album recording process this time around…. Since 1969 I have been involved in recording but never with a total absence of live performance. Since March 2020 all my focus has been on this album. Once more I’ve been privileged to receive some great songs which kept me well occupied. I produced with Jim Higgins and David Meade engineered the project. There are songs from Ricky Lynch, Paul Doran, Mick Hanly, Wally Page, Tom Tuohy, Gary Moore, Jim Page and Bob Dylan. These sit side by side with traditional songs and a couple of my own offerings. …Thanks for listening….’
Tickets, costing €44 each, are available from Ticketmaster at https://www.ticketmaster.ie/christy-moore-galway-20-08-2022/event/18005C4BDA9D6F27.
Time
(Saturday) 8:00 pm
Location
Leisureland
Salthill Road Lower, Galway City

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Atlantic Arc is a collaborative ensemble of renowned traditional musicians and singers from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland, under the musical direction of Dónal Lunny, one
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Having formed in 2016 for a series of one-off collaborations, the members of Atlantic Arc discovered they shared a deep interest in exploring and cultivating contemporary expressions of traditional music. This connection set Atlantic Arc on a course of openness and curiosity which over the past 5 years has led to a powerful live repertoire of original, traditional, re-arranged and shared material, drawn from their musical ancestry.
“Our synergy is truly exceptional and the musical vibrancy a pure sensation, Atlantic Arc a musical joy for me” – Dónal Lunny
Their debut single, My Son David, was released in April last year to an outstanding media response. Their debut album is expected shortly.
Atlantic Arc are:
- Dónal Lunny on bouzouki and guitar
- Pauline Scanlon on vocals
- Jarlath Henderson on vocals, guitars uilleann pipes and whistles
- Alan Doherty on whistles
- Tara Breen on fiddle
- Sharon Howley on cello
- Davie Ryan on drums
- Ewen Vernal on bass
- Graham Henderson on keyboards
Doors open from 7.30pm.
Tickets, each costing €25, are available from https://tseac.ticketsolve.com/shows/873626144.
Time
(Saturday) 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Location
Séamus Ennis Arts Centre
The Naul, Co. Dublin

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Returning to their Summer Series artistic residency at the Carlingford Heritage Centre for the twelfth year, Zoë Conway and John McIntyre, will be joined by a different special guest artist
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Returning to their Summer Series artistic residency at the Carlingford Heritage Centre for the twelfth year, Zoë Conway and John McIntyre, will be joined by a different special guest artist each week. This week’s guest is award-winning uilleann piper and flute player, Louise Mulcahy, from Abbeyfeale in Co. Limerick.
The husband and wife folk duo from Co. Louth have been acclaimed as virtuoso instrumentalists with remarkable versatility. They have two highly acclaimed duo albums to their name: Go Mairir I Bhfad (Long Life To You), a 2012 collection of twelve specially commissioned pieces composed by leading Irish musicians including the late Mícheál Ó Súilleabhán, Tommy Peoples, Donal Lunny, Máirtín O’Connor, Peadar Ó Riada, Liz Carroll and Niall Vallely; and Live in Concert, released in spring 2017, featuring tracks recorded at live performances around Europe.
Apart from her mastery of the traditional genre – as a former all-Ireland senior fiddle champion – Zoë is also an accomplished classical musician which has enabled to appear comfortably as featured soloist with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, thee BBC Symphony Orchestra and the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Germany; with a repertoire that includes her own compositions as well as works composed for her by Bill Whelan.
Growing up in the Cooley Mountains of north County Louth, John McIntyre has been playing guitar since the age of 8. He began his professional career as an electric guitarist with the successful indie band, The Revs, playing many venues and festivals including Oxygen and Slane in Ireland, Reading and Leeds in Britain, and touring throughout North America, Australia and Europe. John studied classical guitar and piano for many years, and from early childhood was immersed in the language, songs and traditional dance music of south west Donegal – his father’s homeplace. Aside from live gigs, John is equally comfortable in the recording studio both as a performer and a producer.
Zoë and John will be joined by the ubiquitous Steve Cooney, best known for his development of an influential style of guitar accompaniment to the traditional dance music of West Kerry, for which he won the National Entertainment Award in 1997. Born in Melbourne Australia in 1953, he came to Ireland in 1980. He has ancestral links with Tipperary, Cavan and Galway. He has participated in making more than 250 CDs, either as a guitar or bass player or as producer and engineer. He has worked with many iconic international artists in rock and country but his primarily focus is Irish traditional music, and fusions of that genre. In 2020 he released a CD of solo guitar interpretations of ancient harp tunes, Ceol Ársa Cláirsí, which won three awards at the 2020 RTÉ Folk Awards as well as being named Irish Times traditional album of the year. He was also given a Lifetime Achievement award by RTÉ. He completed an M.Litt.Ed in 2011 and a Ph.D. in 2018 on an intuitive musical notation system that he has developed for early learners and those who have difficulties with staff notation.
Tickets, each costing €16.24 (plus 0.81 handling charge), are available from https://carlingfordheritagecentre.com/events/steve-cooney-guitar/.
Time
(Sunday) 4:00 pm
Location
Carlingford Heritage Centre
Church Road, Carlingford, Co. Louth
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