Following the sucess of
recent US performances classically trained soprano Emma
Kate Tobia will be bringing her unique fusion of
a pure lyrical voice with the timeless melodies of
our heritage on an 18 date tour of the US
this December.
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Emma Kate Tobia
for one night only in New York's Triad Theatre.
With Gregory Harrington on violin and Hanake
Yamagato on piano. Wed Oct 7th 2009 at 7pm. |
Beal
Tuinne album receives awards
The Beal Tuinne album 'Beal Tuinne - Live at St. James
Church, Dingle' (TARA4022) has picked up three awards from
the liveireland.com 'Livies 2009' music awards in the categories
Vocal/Instrumental Album of the Year, Rita Connolly and Eilis
Kennedy for 'Female Vocalist of the Year' and Shaun Davey
for 'Composer of the Year'
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Tara
Albums now available for download
A number of albums from the Tara Music catalogue are now available
for purchase by download from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
The albums initially available include classic albums from
Planxty, Liam O' Flynn and Shaun Davey.
Over the coming months it is planned it greatly increase,
the number of artists and albums available for download as
well as the number of online stores presenting Tara Music
titles.
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Shaun Davey announces
details of a number of concerts for 2009.These concerts will
include unique lineups of some of Irelands finest traditional
musicians. More Info
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Zoë Conway
and Michelle Lally to feature in 'Women of Ireland',
an innovative and exciting live concert production which showcases
the next generation of Ireland’s leading female performers.
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All female, A Cappella
group 'The Fallen Angels' are to get together for
a tour of Germany in March 2009. More
Info |
BILL WHELAN – A CELEBRATION
Waterfront Hall, Belfast 17 March 2009 20.00
The Concert features passages from The Connemara Suite (Tara4021),
The Seville Suite (Tara3030) and Riverdance and will bebroadcast
live on BBC NI Radio
With
The Ulster Orchestra with David Brophy (conductor)
Soloists
Fionnuala Hunt, violin, Aoife O’Brien, violin, Colin
Dunne, dancer, Michael Longley, poet, Julie Fowlis, singer,
Declan Masterson, uileann pipes, Sharon Corr, fiddle, Máirtín
O’Connor, accordion, Mel Mercier, bodhrán, Bill
Whelan, electric piano, Rodrigo Romani, Galician harp, Pepe
Ferreiros, whistles and Galician pipes, Nando Casal, whistles
and Galician pipes, Yolanda Gonzalez Sobrado, dancer.
Listen
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Frankie Gavin and Michelle
Lally will be touring the US with the Dublin Philarmonic Orchestra
throughout the months of Jan, Feb and Mar '09. They will feature
in the Orchestra's 'Celtic Spectacular' concerts. The 'Celtic
Spectacular' concert will also feature music from Bill Whelan's
Connemara Suite. More
Info
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3rd Feb 2009, 8pm - Songs
& Tunes with Shaun Davey, Rita Connolly, Gerry O’Beirne
& Eoin Begley - The Mermaid Arts Center, Bray, Co.
Wicklow More
Info |
| Stocktons Wing reunion
gig
31st. January 2009 at The West County Hotel Ennis. More details
to follow. |
Zoë Conway UK Tour
Following the success
of their UK tour in 2007, husband and wife duo Zoë
Conway and John McIntyre will spend much of October performing
throughout the UK at venues from Newcastle, in the north,
to the Isle of White, in the south.
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BÉAL TUINNE
SUNDAY Sept 21st - 8.00pm
Unitarian Church
112 St. Stephen’s Green West
Cead isteach/adm €15
as part of the Imram (Irish Language Literature) Festival
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July 25th NCH Dublin
with RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Gavin Maloney,
conductor. A special selection of Shaun
Davey's music for TV and film. The evening will include
some of Shaun's best known tracks including 'The Deer's Cry',
'Fill To me The Parting Glass', 'Fanny Hawke' and 'The Winter's
End' as well as music from music from 'Ballykissangel', 'The
Tailor of Panama', 'David Copperfield' and 'The Hanging Gale'
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Shaun
Davey concert online. Following the outstanding success
of the concert 'The Music of Shaun Davey' in Belfast's Waterfront
Hall on St. Patrick's Day, The BBC have (for a limited time
only) a two hour program, which includes tracks from the concert
and interview clips with Shaun and Rita, available for streaming
from their website.
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Forthcoming Shaun Davey
Concerts
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Moving Hearts announce
more reunion dates for 2008
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New release for Jan
2008 Béal Tuinne (pronounced
'Beel-thinneh) is the name of a group of West Kerry-based
musicians featuring Seamus Begley and Eilis Kennedy, who joined
together with singer Rita Connolly and composer Shaun Davey
in 2006 to perform a collection of new songs based on the
poems of the late Caoimhin O Cinneide. The group also includes,
Lawrence Courtney, Jim Murray, Eoin Begley, and honorary member;
Daithi O'Se.
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Bill Whelan releases
new album 'The Connemara Suite'. World renouned Riverdance
composer Bill Whelan has just released his latest The Connemara
Suite on the Tara label. The music is performed by The Irish
Chamber Orchestra, Conducted by David Jones and soloists include:
Zoë Conway, Morgan Crowley, Colin Dunne, Fionnuala Hunt,
Michelle Mulcahy, and Bill Whelan.
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New Album from Frankie
Gavin with Hibernian Rhapsody due for release shortly
Frankie Gavin, of De Dannan fame, is back centre stage with
a new group Hibernian Rhapsody, comprising some of Ireland's
finest talents. The Full Score is the title of the group'
debut album and it will be available on the Tara Music label
around mid-September 2007.
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The Galway Art Festival
will, this year, present a Celebration concert to honour the
life and work of Donal Lunny featuring Moving Hearts at Galway's
Radisson SAS Hotel on Sunday July 29th.
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Shaun Davey Concerts
Details announced for a second evening of the music of Shaun
Davey with a performance of The Brendan Voyage and Granuaile
on Friday 27th of July at Dublin's National Concert
Hall. This performance which will be in addition to the
concert on June 22nd (see below), will feature The
RTE National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gavin
Maloney with soloists Liam O'Flynn and Rita
Connolly.
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The Cork Youth Orchestra
will perform The Brendan Voyage for Italian Festival.
The Cork Youth Orchestra will perform The Brendan
Voyage at the 9th International Festival of European Youth
Orchestras in Tuscany, Italy, this July. The Orchestra
will perform a pre-tour concert at Cork City Hall on
Wed 4th July at 8pm
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Moving Hearts have
confirmed appearances at two festivals this summer.
Following on the success of their reunion concerts, in
Dublin's Vicar Street, last February. ground-breaking
instrumental ensemble Moving Hearts will be appearing at Scotland's
Herbridean Festival in July and the ESB BEO festival at Dublin's
NCH in August.
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Liam O'Flynn Musician
of the Year receives Award
Top prize in the TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards, goes to Liam
O’Flynn from Kildare who has long been regarded as one
of Ireland’s most influential uilleann pipers. The awards
considered to be the foremost recognition given to traditional
Irish musicians, will take place on Easter Sunday, April 8,
at the Cork Opera House. Along with Liam special guests for
the night will include Paul Brady, Danu, Sean Keane, Jackie
Daly, West Ocean String Quartet agus go leor eile.
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Shaun Davey's
Granuaile and Refief of Derry Symphony
Dublin's NCH Fri June 22nd 2007 - 8pm
Last year's The Music of Shaun Davey with the RTÉ
National Symphony Orchestra was lauded as one of the highlights
of the NCH's musical calendar. For 2007 Shaun returns with
two of his best known works, Granuaile and The Relief
of Derry Symphony.
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Tara
Music Catalogue once again available through Amazon.com
courtsey of US distributor CelticMusicUSA.com. CelticMusicUSA
have recently signed up as an Amazon.com Seller and can offer
the majority of the Tara Music catalogue through Amazon.com.
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Emma-Kate Tobia confirms
a number of Irish concerts for 2007
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Zoë Conway and
John McIntyre Irish Tour
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Moving Hearts Set for
a 2007 reunion in Dublin's Vicar Street.
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NEW
RELEASE
'If This Be Love' is the debut album
from Michelle Lally, who is the latest in long line of top
Irish Female vocalists, including; Mary Black, Maura O'Connell,
Dolores Keane and Eleanor Shanley, whose talent was brought
to the fore by De Dannan fiddler Frankie Gavin
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NEW
RELEASE
Zoë Conway launches her eagerly anticipated second
solo album, 'The Horse's Tail'. This album is quite
a change from her debut album, as it was recorded without
using modern-day techniques such as overdubbing and click
tracks.
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NEW
RELEASE
‘May We Never Have To Say Goodbye’, is the new album
from Shaun Davey, featuring the RTÉ National
Symphony Orchestra and an array of top Irish artists. The
album takes its name from the anthem specially composed for
the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics World Summer
Games in 2003.
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The Recently re-released
Stocktons Wing Live - Take One.
This album will without doubt bring back many memories of
their youth, to many now forty something's. The album, which
has been digitally remastered for this release, also includes
3 bonus studio recordings of the band from the same period.
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Live in Hope: The Wildlife
Album 2 a celebration of nature in music with all profits
going to WWF & Ulster Wildlife Trust. 'The Poet &
The Piper' by Seamus Heaney and Liam O'Flynn, 'Legacy
of a Quite Man' by Sinead Stone & Gerard Farrelly
and 'Lumina' by Eoin Duignan are three albums not on
the Tara Music label but we do recommend them highly.
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EMMA KATE TOBIA Launches
her first solo recording, entitled Aisling na nGael (An Irish
Dream). The CD comprises 12 tracks from the Irish traditional
idiom presented in a stunning manner by Soprano Emma Kate
Tobia.
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On January 4th 2005 the
Orchestra Sinfonica de Galiçia, one of Spain's
leading orchestras, are set to perform of concert of music
by Irish composer, Bill Whelan, in the Palacio de la
Opera of La Coruña. The main event of the evening
will be a full performance of The Seville Suite (Kinsale
to La Coruña).
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Following the huge success
of their recent reunion concert, Stockton's Wing have now
confirmed a second concert in Dublin's Vicar Street on May
15th 2004.
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The Voice Squad's Holly
Wood album will be released on CD by Tara Music in the coming
weeks. Though particularly relevant at Christmas time,
this harmonious trio and their music will, as this album attests,
endure for all seasons.
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Chicago based 'Old St
Pats Church' will feature Shaun Davey's Granuaile as
the centerpiece of their Siamsa na nGael festival. The concert
will be held at the Chicago Symphony Center and will feature
the star of last year's concert Rita Connolly whose amazing
voice won her many new fans in the Chicago area last year.
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PLANXTY REUNION
The original Planxty lineup of Christy Moore, Liam
O'Flynn, Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny are
to reform for a series of Irish concerts in 2004.
Due due to unprecedented demand, the first 6 Dublin dates
sold-out in a day, 4 extra Dublin dates have been added.
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Nollaig Casey & Arty
McGlynn announce dates for major tour of Holland in Jan/Feb
2004. The Tour will also feature singer Sean Keane and his
band as well as Marian Bradfield and her Band.
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Top Irish
group of the 1980's (and much of the 1990's) Stockton's Wing
will be getting together for a one-off concert at The West
County Hotel Ennis Co.Clare, on Nov. 8th. 2003. All the proceeds
from the concert will go to help a young girl through hospital
procedures.
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Ireland's
master fiddle player, Frankie Gavin, is set for a comprehensive
tour of Scotland this coming October with Brian McGrath accompanying
him on piano and banjo. Venues include the Queens Hall in
Edinburgh and the Penicuik Folk Festival.
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Nollaig
Casey & Arty McGlynn US Tour
September / October see the return of
the extremely talented duo to the US. The tour opens at the
Sebastopol Celtic Music Festival in California on Sept 26th,
Click below for full list of tour dates.
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Three
performances of Bill Whelan's The Seville Suite are planned
for Ireland in the coming months. The RTE concert orchestra
along with soloists Zoë Conway, fiddle Eilish Egan, accordion
Robbie Harris, bodhrán Declan Masterson, uileann pipes and
conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn.
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'May We
Never Have to Say Goodbye',
The Athletes' Song of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer
Games was Composed by Shaun Davey and performed performed
at the Opening Ceremony in Dublin's Croke Park by Ronan Tynan,
Rita Connolly, The Voice Squad, the National Symphony Orchestra,
many of Ireland's finest traditional musicians, a 50 strong
pipe band and a choir of 500.
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Galway
Arts Festival honour the contribution of Arty McGlynn to Irish
Music over the last twenty years, with a celebrattery concert
at this year's festival on Sunday June 20th. The concert will
feature many of theartists Arty has performed with during
his career.
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Most of
the titles from the Tara Music catalogue are now available
from Amazon in France, who offer quick delivery and prices
in Euro.
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A special
performance of Maurice Lennon's
'Brian Boru The High King of Tara takes place in Saint
Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral in the ancient Irish
Capital of Armagh on Saturday 7th June 2003. The concert will
feature vocalist Sean Keane and the Kincora Band.
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Zoë
Conway Ireland's latest
fiddle playing sensation announces Irish Tour dates for Apr
2003
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Following
the recent performance at
the Celtique Nuit festival in Paris's Parc de France, Liam
O'Flynn prepares to tour the Netherlands in April 2003.
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Listen to a selection
of interviews from Liam O'Flynn's Video 'The Piper's Call'
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The 7th Annual Siamsa
na Ngael - In celebration of the celtic arts Old St. Patrick's
present "The Pilgrim" by Shaun Davey on Monday, March 17,
2003 at the Symphony Center Chicago, IL.
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Video Clips Now Available.
The first video clips of Tara artists are now available.
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The Brendan Voyage gift
box-set is a unique item in the Tara catalogue. In addition
to a copy of The Brendan Voyage CD it also contains a copy
of Tim Severin's book 'The Brendan Voyage' upon which Shaun
Davey based his music. Available on Special Ofer for a limited
period.
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Zoë Conway is one
of Ireland's most gifted young fiddle players. Her
self-titled debut album was released on Sept. 9th 2002.
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Tara
Music Re-release the now classic Máirtin O'Connor album
Perpetual Motion.
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On October 25th 2002,
Liam O'Flynn will be appearing in his home town of Athy in
Co. Kildare with The Piper's Call Band. This concert, which
is part of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School, will feature
the world premiere of 'Endurance' composed by Liam.
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Maurice
Lennon concert dates for summer 2002 now available
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Top Accordion
player Josephine Marsh announces US tour dates for Sept. 2002.
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The Piper's
Call available on Video
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'The Road West' a New
Máirtin O'Connor album.
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Amazon.co.uk continue
to increase the number of Tara titles in their online catalogue.
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US Tour dates for Nollaig
Casey & Arty McGlynn.
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Rita Connolly to appear
at the 'Nuit Celtique' music spectular in the Stade de France,
Paris on March 15th & 16th 2002.
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New Frankie Gavin album
'Fierce Traditional' .
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We conducted a survey
of 5 major US online stores for price and availability of
Tara titles.
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The Homes of Donegal a
new single from John Walsh.
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Frankie Gavin US Tour
Dates
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Alan Kelly's 'Mosaic'
albums receives Irish Music Magazine nomination
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Four new releases from
Beginish, Phil Callery, Josephine Marsh and Paddy Glackin
& Paddy Keenan.
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August dates in Italy
for Nollaig Casey & Arty McGlynn
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Due to the success of
the Lorient concert in August 2000 the festival Organisers
have invited Shaun to
re-stage the concert on August 11th 2001.
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Liam O'Flynn & Seamus
Heaney to perform at New York's Lincon Center on May 29th.
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Shaun Davey's Granuaile
and The Brendan Voyage For Waterfront Hall Belfast with The
Ulster Orchestra on Mar. 17th
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Josephine Marsh US Tour
Details finalised.
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2001 US
Tour Dates for Liam O'Flynn & The Piper's Call Band
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A unique performance of
Shaun Davey's The Pilgrim takes place on the Isle of Skye,
in Scotland.
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| Shaun Davey Receives Tony
Nomination
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| Shaun Davey's - The Pilgrim
Tuesday March 21st 2000 - The Blanchardstown Centre 8.30pm
View a Selection of photos
from the Blanchardstown Concert
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