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….’

SOLD OUT

The Góilín continues with its weekly singing session. Everyone with an interest in traditional singing (in any language) is welcome! Just come along and enjoy the singing, and of course the company, and maybe you might like to sing a traditional song yourself. You are more than welcome! Tá míle fáilte romhat! We would especially welcome more new singers, more women singers, more younger singers agus ar ndóigh fáilte speisialta roimh Ghaeilge!

Weekly traditional music and song session, hosted by Pat O’Connell  – performers welcome

Fergus Woods, one of the co-host of the Belfast Folk website and a stalwart of the Ulster folk scene including the weekly Sunflower Folk Club in Belfast, is continuing to host a monthly Zoom session in order to maintain the many long-distance and international connections that were made at the height of the pandemic in the absence in-person events.

The session takes place on the second Wednesday of each month. The link for the session is posted on the Belfastfolk Facebook page or you can contact belfastfolk06@gmail.com for a personal email with the link details.

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….’

SOLD OUT

For information and booking: https://marketplacearmagh.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873628461

The Góilín continues with its weekly singing session. Everyone with an interest in traditional singing (in any language) is welcome! Just come along and enjoy the singing, and of course the company, and maybe you might like to sing a traditional song yourself. You are more than welcome! Tá míle fáilte romhat! We would especially welcome more new singers, more women singers, more younger singers agus ar ndóigh fáilte speisialta roimh Ghaeilge!

Organised by the West Limerick Singing Club, the annual Garry McMahon Traditional Singing Weekend will be officially opened by Éamonn Ó hArgáin, President of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. The formalities will be followed by a singing session commencing at 9pm.

Widely regarded as two of the greatest exponents of the banjo, Ron Block and Damien O’Kane have collaborated to create arguably their own genre, something never heard before!

“Damien’s sense of piston-like drive and Ron’s stately tone and string-bending accuracy mix to create a confluence of the perfect banjo. The other respected musicians dance around them and give them the space to chase, harmonise, or counter each other throughout this experiment. It works. It all works. Listen to it and see if you agree with me” – Jerry Douglas

Damien and Ron started working on a new record in April 2019. They recorded a number of tracks and met up again at Pure Studios to record more in November 2019 after a tour in the UK. The men had planned to finish the record in April 2020, but were delayed by the pandemic. The record was finally released in June 2022.  A real treat for banjo lovers worldwide, they will showcase another masterclass on tenor and bluegrass banjos and how their respective traditions meet and unite in perfect and thrilling harmony.

Joining Damien and Ron on the bill is Aoife Scott, a scion of the renowned Black family (her mother is Frances Black and her aunt, Mary). Her last album was produced by Ron Block and recorded in Nashville and Dublin. Following her highly celebrated debut album, Carry the Day, Aoife released her much anticipated second album in January 2020. Homebird is an impressive collaboration featuring the best of Irish folk musicians and Grammy award-winning bluegrass musicians.

Doors open at 8pm.

Tickets, each costing €16, are available from https://tseac.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873628217,

The Garry McMahon Singing Weekend continues with a Grand Concert and a formal tribute to Philip Enright (pictured above), landlord of the West Limerick Club’s base at the Ramble Inn in Abbeyfeale and the 1989 All-Ireland senior champion singing in Irish at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Sligo.

Concert tickets: €10 (including entry to raffle).

Weekly traditional music and song session, hosted by Pat O’Connell  – performers welcome

The Góilín continues with its weekly singing session. Everyone with an interest in traditional singing (in any language) is welcome! Just come along and enjoy the singing, and of course the company, and maybe you might like to sing a traditional song yourself. You are more than welcome! Tá míle fáilte romhat! We would especially welcome more new singers, more women singers, more younger singers agus ar ndóigh fáilte speisialta roimh Ghaeilge!

https://spiritstore.ie/event.php?eventID=MandC22

Weekly traditional music and song session, hosted by Pat O’Connell  – performers welcome

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 on sale Thursday 2 June at 9.00am ONLY via Ticketmaster.ie

Téada has appeared as a frequent headliner at major music festivals throughout North Aermica, Europe, Africa, West Asia and Australia. Highlights include a 30,000-capacity stadium concert in Brittany, along with performances at Penang World Music Festival in Malaysia, Edmonton Folk Festival in Canada, Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe, and Rainforest World Music Festival in Borneo.

In 2014, the band performed to 40,000 people during an extensive seven-week tour of Japan and Taiwan and has actively toured the United States since 2001. May 2022 saw the release of the band’s new album on the Gael Linn label, Coiscéim Coliligh, featuring an exciting vocal collaboration between Séamus Begley and Hollywood actor and singer John C. Reilly in addition to the band’s customary energetic take on rare tunes from the tradition.

Séamus Begley is a frequent performer with the band. The renowned accordion player and singer from Dingle in the Kerry Gaeltacht has recorded one solo album, The Bold Kerryman, in 2015. Well known for his appearances in duos with Steve Cooney and Jim Murray (with whom he has also recorded albums), Brendan has also played with The Boys of the Lough and The Chieftains.

Doors open from 7pm.

Tickets, each costing €15 (plus €1.87 booking fee), are available from https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/teada-and-seamus-begley-tickets-378991984227.

A special weekend pass is also on offer providing for entry into all concerts – Téada, 30th Anniversary Concert, Four Men and A Dog – as well as the Fiddle Recital (featuring Connie O’Connell, Andrea Palandri, Aidan Connolly, Aoife Ní Chaoimh, Caoimhe Flannery, Máire O’Keeffe, Gerry Harrington, Emma O’Leary, Matt Cranitch and Nicky McAuliffe) and the Singing Concert (featuring Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Mickey MacConnell, Tim Dennehy and Barry Kerry). The weekend pass – costing €50 (plus €4.23 booking fee) is available from https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/early-bird-full-weekend-pass-patrick-o-keeffe-festival-tickets-378775958087.

The Góilín continues with its weekly singing session. Everyone with an interest in traditional singing (in any language) is welcome! Just come along and enjoy the singing, and of course the company, and maybe you might like to sing a traditional song yourself. You are more than welcome! Tá míle fáilte romhat! We would especially welcome more new singers, more women singers, more younger singers agus ar ndóigh fáilte speisialta roimh Ghaeilge!

Hosted by Doireann Ní Ghlacáin, the line-up for this special concert to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Patrick O’Keeffe Festival includes:

Matt Cranitch and Jackie Daly (pictured above), Peter Browne, Paudie O’Connor, Máire O’Keeffe, Aoife Ní Chaoimh, Connie O’Connell, Nicky McAuliffe, Anne McAuliffe, Brian Mooney, Timmy Connors, Raymond O’Sullivan, John Walsh, Eoin Stan O’Sullivan Emma O’Leary, Bryan O’Leary, Aidan Connolly Éibhlín de Paor, Jimmy Doyle, Joe Sullivan, Darragh Curtin, Con Moynihan, Denis O’Connor, Gearoid Ó Duinín, Mick Culloty, Seán Abeyta, P.J. Teehan and the thirtieth anniversary reunion of The Smokey Chimney (Gerry Harrington, Eoghan O’Sullivan, Paul de Grade),

The concert will also include two award presentations:

• the award for Dedication to the Music of Sliabh Luachra will be presented to Máire O’Keeffe
• the Patrick O’Keeffe Award for Young Musician of the Year 2022  will also be presented

Doors open from 7pm.

Tickets, each costing €20 (plus €2.20 booking fee), are available from https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/30th-anniversary-sliabh-luachra-concert-tickets-378996808657.

A special weekend pass is also on offer providing for entry into all concerts – Téada, 30th Anniversary Concert, Four Men and A Dog – as well as the Fiddle Recital (featuring Connie O’Connell, Andrea Palandri, Aidan Connolly, Aoife Ní Chaoimh, Caoimhe Flannery, Máire O’Keeffe, Gerry Harrington, Emma O’Leary, Matt Cranitch and Nicky McAuliffe) and the Singing Concert (featuring Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Mickey MacConnell, Tim Dennehy and Barry Kerry). The weekend pass – costing €50 (plus €4.23 booking fee) is available from https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/early-bird-full-weekend-pass-patrick-o-keeffe-festival-tickets-378775958087.

Four Men and A Dog are Cathal Hayden (fiddle and banjo), Stephen Hayden (fiddle), Kevin Doherty (guitar) Gino Lupari (percussion) and Dónal Murphy (accordion). The band has made a name for itself with its eclectic and vivacious blend of traditional Irish music with a wide spectrum of other genres, including rap, Southern rock, jazz, blues, bluegrass, polka, country swing, and even salsa. The band made its debut performance in Murphy’s Bar, Dungiven, County Derry, in 1991 before going on to steal the show at the Belfast Folk Festival later that year, with a high-energy approach that combines furious traditional dance tunes with irreverent new music and inimitable covers. Since that auspicious beginning, the band has headlined some of the largest music festivals around the globe!

Also appearing on the night will be Sorcha Costello (fiddle), Elaine Reilly (banjo) and Kate McHugh (piano) along with Mick O’Brien (uilleann pipes) and Padraic Keane (uilleann pipes) playing selected tunes from The Munster Pipers.

Doors open from 7pm.

Tickets, each costing €20 (plus €2.20 booking fee), are available from https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/four-men-and-a-dog-patrick-okeeffe-festival-tickets-379004170677.

A special weekend pass is also on offer providing for entry into all concerts – Téada, 30th Anniversary Concert, Four Men and A Dog – as well as the Fiddle Recital (featuring Connie O’Connell, Andrea Palandri, Aidan Connolly, Aoife Ní Chaoimh, Caoimhe Flannery, Máire O’Keeffe, Gerry Harrington, Emma O’Leary, Matt Cranitch and Nicky McAuliffe) and the Singing Concert (featuring Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Mickey MacConnell, Tim Dennehy and Barry Kerry). The weekend pass – costing €50 (plus €4.23 booking fee) is available from https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/early-bird-full-weekend-pass-patrick-o-keeffe-festival-tickets-378775958087.

Weekly traditional music and song session, hosted by Pat O’Connell  – performers welcome

Over the years Lisa O’Neill has quietly built a reputation for herself on the Irish and international scenes and now has a growing following with her unique folk sound, strong song-writing and distinctive voice. Her debut release, Has an Album, was followed in 2013 by the Choice-nominated Same Cloth Or Not. Her third album, Pothole in the Sky, garnered critical acclaim and is filled with tension and emotion, contextualising themes of love, loss, heartache and sorrow today through referencing tales from the past with beauty, honesty and defiance. Lisa’s last release on the Rough Trade imprint River Lea, Heard A Long Gone Song, has garnered huge acclaim both at home and abroad. It was Choice-nominated and named as Best Folk Album of 2019 by The Guardian. She was also nominated in four categories at the 2019 BBC Radio 2 folk awards and five categories at the 2019 RTÉ Radio 1 folk awards, winning one for best original folk song. In 2020 just before the world got turned upside down, Lisa signed an album deal with Rough Trade Records and has been working on new material throughout the pandemic. New music is scheduled for release soon.

Tickets costing €18 plus €1.50 booking fee are available from https://spiritstore.ie/event.php?eventID=LONeill.

The Góilín continues with its weekly singing session. Everyone with an interest in traditional singing (in any language) is welcome! Just come along and enjoy the singing, and of course the company, and maybe you might like to sing a traditional song yourself. You are more than welcome! Tá míle fáilte romhat! We would especially welcome more new singers, more women singers, more younger singers agus ar ndóigh fáilte speisialta roimh Ghaeilge!

John Spillane is a musician, songwriter, performer, recording artist, storyteller, poet and dreamer. Rooted in people, places and storym his music transports the listener, and his live performances captivate audiences around the world.

For this intimate performance, John celebrates the 2022 release of In Another Light, a career-spanning album recorded live at Cork Opera House in November 2021.

Tickets, each costing €25, are available from https://www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/john-spillane.

Luka Bloom is regarded as one of Ireland’s most respected contemporary folk artists, having produced 22 albums since the 1970s, he continues to push the boundaries of what his music can do. Luka’s orchestra of choice is the guitar. The guitar is the landscape on which the song is created, and he is forever probing that landscape for new inspiration.

Tickets, each costing €22.50 + €1.50 booking fee, are available from https://spiritstore.ie/event.php?eventID=Luka611.

Fergus Woods, one of the co-host of the Belfast Folk website and a stalwart of the Ulster folk scene including the weekly Sunflower Folk Club in Belfast, is continuing to host a monthly Zoom session in order to maintain the many long-distance and international connections that were made at the height of the pandemic in the absence in-person events.

The session takes place on the second Wednesday of each month. The link for the session is posted on the Belfastfolk Facebook page or you can contact belfastfolk06@gmail.com for a personal email with the link details.

After a recording hiatus of 14 years, Flook released Ancora in April 2019. With the flutes and whistles of Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen, the guitar of Ed Boyd and the bodhrán of John Joe Kelly, this iconic band weaves and spins traditionally rooted tunes into an enthralling sound – with agile but tight rhythms and virtuoso improvisation. Flook possesses a rare blend of fiery technical brilliance, delicate ensemble interaction and a bold, adventurous musical imagination.

There is no shortage of virtuosity amongst the members of Flook, but the unique impact of this sensational Anglo-Irish group stems from the wholly intuitive, almost symbiotic, exchange between the various flutes, frets and skins.

Ticktes, each costing €20 (exc. booking fee), are available from https://www.sugarclubtickets.com/purchase/flook-1.

The Góilín continues with its weekly singing session. Everyone with an interest in traditional singing (in any language) is welcome! Just come along and enjoy the singing, and of course the company, and maybe you might like to sing a traditional song yourself. You are more than welcome! Tá míle fáilte romhat! We would especially welcome more new singers, more women singers, more younger singers agus ar ndóigh fáilte speisialta roimh Ghaeilge!

In November 1999, we in The West Ocean String Quartet – Seamus McGuire and Niamh Crowley/violins, Kenneth Rice/viola, Neil Martin/cello – set sail on what has become an endlessly fascinating journey of experimentation and collaboration, of seeking out other ways, of finding our own voice. Along the way we have shared stages and studios some of the very finest – Christy Moore, Liam O’Flynn, Stephen Rea, Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, Matt Molloy, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Brian Kennedy, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Eimear Quinn… great experiences all. Core to the journey has been the weaving of the quartet’s own tapestry, striving for ways to communicate through composing and arranging and producing what we believe in. A quadruple marriage over more than two decades is no dull jaunt.

For Atlantic Edge, quartet’s fifth album, rather than the emphasis being predominantly on newly-composed music, we were drawn to traditional music from or about the west of Ireland, and so began a most pleasurable trawl through that rich vein of material. The seemingly endless store of inexplicably beautiful airs and robust dance music from along the Atlantic edge underlines how landscape shapes humans, and vice versa. The two become inextricable, interdependent, and when artists seek to express themselves it’s inevitable that something of that sense of place appears. Airs and tunes of love and exile and home and longing and heartbreak.An extensive nation-wide launch tour, planned for April 2020, fell victim to covid. To say that we are thrilled to now be out performing again and revisiting that tour is an understatement of huge proportion.

Tickets (€25.00 + €1.50 booking fee) are available from https://spiritstore.ie/event.php?eventID=WOSQ22

The Góilín continues with its weekly singing session. Everyone with an interest in traditional singing (in any language) is welcome! Just come along and enjoy the singing, and of course the company, and maybe you might like to sing a traditional song yourself. You are more than welcome! Tá míle fáilte romhat! We would especially welcome more new singers, more women singers, more younger singers agus ar ndóigh fáilte speisialta roimh Ghaeilge!

Rescheduled from January 28, Andy Irvine and Paul Brady are on the road again with their very successful live show celebrating their now classic and iconic album of folk song and traditional music which was released in 1977.

The show features songs and tunes from the album and many other musical masterpieces that Andy and Paul have performed throughout both of their illustrious careers and, as on the previous tours, they will be accompanied by Dónal Lunny and Kevin Burke who both played on the original album recording, Dónal also acted as producer on the original recording.

Tickets cost £38.00 each. The show is SOLD OUT.

Rescheduled from January 28, Andy Irvine and Paul Brady are on the road again with their very successful live show celebrating their now classic and iconic album of folk song and traditional music which was released in 1977.

The show features songs and tunes from the album and many other musical masterpieces that Andy and Paul have performed throughout both of their illustrious careers and, as on the previous tours, they will be accompanied by Dónal Lunny and Kevin Burke who both played on the original album recording, Dónal also acted as producer on the original recording.

Booking: https://www.ticketmaster.ie/andy-irvine-paul-brady-dublin-21-11-2022/event/1800577BA2564BF6

The show is SOLD OUT.

Rescheduled from January 28, Andy Irvine and Paul Brady are on the road again with their very successful live show celebrating their now classic and iconic album of folk song and traditional music which was released in 1977.

The show features songs and tunes from the album and many other musical masterpieces that Andy and Paul have performed throughout both of their illustrious careers and, as on the previous tours, they will be accompanied by Dónal Lunny and Kevin Burke who both played on the original album recording, Dónal also acted as producer on the original recording.

Booking: https://www.ticketmaster.ie/andy-irvine-paul-brady-dublin-22-11-2022/event/18005745E51A2032

The show is SOLD OUT.

The Góilín continues with its weekly singing session. Everyone with an interest in traditional singing (in any language) is welcome! Just come along and enjoy the singing, and of course the company, and maybe you might like to sing a traditional song yourself. You are more than welcome! Tá míle fáilte romhat! We would especially welcome more new singers, more women singers, more younger singers agus ar ndóigh fáilte speisialta roimh Ghaeilge!

Lisa O’Neill’s show, Tones that are Tender and Tones that are Gruff was originally scheduled for March 20. So ticket holders for that date will automatically be transferred to the new date.

Singer-songwriter Lisa O’Neill is one of the most unique talents in Irish music. Her recent album, Heard A Long Gone Song, has received great acclaim both at home and abroad – not least for her ability to frame her remarkable voice against impressionistic accompaniments, like Margaret Barry colluding with the Dirty Three or some such meeting of minds.

Lisa O’Neill’s roots may be sourced in folk and traditional music but her work transcends any arbitrary categorisation. For this once-off curated show, Lisa will be joined by fellow writers and composers, Séamus Fogarty, Kú and Ruth O’Mahony-Brady, to

Irish alt-folk artist, Séamus Fogarty, released his third album A Bag Of Eyes at the end of 2020. His second album for Domino Records, it follows on from the success of 2017’s much-lauded The Curious Hand. He released his debut full-length, God Damn You Mountain, on Scottish label Fence Records in 2012.

Ruth O’Mahony-Brady is a pianist, vocalist and composer from Dublin. Inspired by the synthesis of acoustic elements with electronic textures, her music seeks to combine her beginnings as a classical pianist with her penchant for vintage synths, organs and drum machines.

Kú are Kilian (vocals and guitar), Cathal Caulfield (fiddle), Kinko (bodhrán) and Tom Mulrooney (bass). Emerging from the Dublin folk scene, Kú perform original works exclusively. Their influences are primarily traditional and folk musics, as well as the city of Dublin itself.

The Góilín continues with its weekly singing session. Everyone with an interest in traditional singing (in any language) is welcome! Just come along and enjoy the singing, and of course the company, and maybe you might like to sing a traditional song yourself. You are more than welcome! Tá míle fáilte romhat! We would especially welcome more new singers, more women singers, more younger singers agus ar ndóigh fáilte speisialta roimh Ghaeilge!