Traditional music updates
The Ballincollig Winter Music Festival takes place on the last weekend of January each year. With world-class headline concerts, traditional music sessions, classes and much more….
TOMMY PEOPLES, living legend of Irish music will play the Ballincollig Winter Music Festival this Thursday night, 27th January at 8.30 pm!
DERVISH play The Ballincollig Winter Music Festival this Friday night, 28th January at 8.30 pm!
Friday January 21st at 8:30 PM @ Séamus Ennis Centre
Téada released a long awaited fourth album – Ceol & Cuimhne / Music & Memory in 2010 on the Gael Linn label, described by The Irish Echo’s Earle Hitchner as “the best album of Irish instrumental music I’ve heard so far this year”. 2011 will see the Téada mark its’ 10th anniversary with a busy season of touring and other special projects.
Founded by Sligo fiddler Oisín Mac Diarmada, Téada first came together in 2001 to make an appearance on the innovative Irish television series ‘Flosc’. With engaging textural arrangements, Téada, meaning “strings” in the Irish language revels in the vibrant traditional music of Ireland. Deftly playing up its structural intricacies while preserving the contagious energy inherent in the repertoire, the group strives to capture a sense of the rawness and individuality of the solo artist, within a modern group context.
Seating is limited. Book early to avoid disappointment.
The Button Factory
Tickets online: €24.99 (booking fee included)
Box Office in Temple Bar Hotel: €22.49 (no admission fee)
Legendary balladeer Dessie O’Halloran, who sings with the Cunningham Family in their show Fuaim Chonamara joins them on stage in the Button Factory. “When he sings in the pub and even when it’s just him, everybody takes notice,” Sharon Shannon told the Irish Times. “Desmond’s voice is rugged and totally unaffected.”
Mary Bergin is an Irishfolk musician who is widely acknowledged as one of the great masters of the tin whistle. She plays in both the Irish traditional and Baroque styles. Mary will be on stage together with Paul de Grae, a Dublin-born guitarist (and occasional singer), living in Kerry for many years. He has a particular interest in the music of Sliabh Luachra, plays regularly at sessions, concerts and festivals throughout Ireland (particularly in Kerry, Cork and Clare) and teaches guitar workshops in Ireland and the USA.
Wednesday the 26th January @ 8 pmChrist Church Cathedral
Tickets online: €25.99 (including booking fee)
Box Office in Temple Bar Hotel: €23.49 (no admission fee)
The Button Factory
Tickets online: €19.99 (including booking fee)
Box Office in Temple Bar Hotel: €17.49 (no admission fee)
Blurb:
BEOGA will take to the stage in the Button Factory. Guaranteed to live up to their name- the Irish word for ‘lively’ the band from county Antrim were drawn together in 2002 after ‘jamming’ in a ferocious session at the all-Ireland Fleadh. Since then BEOGA has expanded the vocabulary of Irish music with a unique accent of their own blending bluesy riffs with jazz and pop beats producing melodious traditional music played to some of the most imaginative and contemporary accompaniment in Irish music today.
Wall Street Journal dubs them “the most exciting new traditional band to emerge from Ireland this century.”
“Individually talented and collectively inspired, this is a quartet who speak a language called music with a fluency beloved of the best multi-linguists” (Siobhan Long Irish Times January 2005)
The release of Beoga’s 2009 album ‘The Incident’ (which was shortlisted for a Grammy award) has seen the supergroup continue to blaze a pioneering trail, rewarding fans with their fresh creative energy and seducing a diverse array of music lovers. Their performance during the Tradfest will have every toe tapping in the house and add depth to an already eclectic mix during the festival.
The TradFest will continue its role as providing a platform for showcasing the best in up-coming Irish talent as on the same night the Button Factory will play host to Ciorras. Hailed as ‘a modern Bothy band’, Ciorras bring a contemporary approach to traditional music. Ciorras were formed as a band earlier this year when the individual members were among a large number of young musicians who featured in the hit TG4 series, Lorg Lunny. These 8 young musicians were invited by Irish music legend Dónal Lunny to create a new band with a fresh, new unique sound in traditional music. With an impressive assortment of instruments between them including fiddle, concertina, pipes, piano accordion, keyboards, percussion, low-whistles, voice and no less than 4 exceptional flute players, the possibilities are endless as demonstrated in their choice of repertoire woven among imaginative and original arrangements and played with an energy and enthusiasm that showcases the phenomenal playing ability and musicality of these outstanding young musicians.
Scoil Gheimhridh Frankie Kennedy as part of their 2010 programme proudly present
T with the MAGGIES
Tríona & Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh & Moya Brennan
Ionad Cois Locha, Dunlewey, County Donegal on Sunday 2nd Jan 2011
Tickets on sale from the 9th November at www.frankiekennedy.com
This wonderful quartet of traditional Irish vocalists features Tríona & Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh & Moya Brennan, probably one of the finest recent amalgamations of Irish female voices to emerge from these shores.
Album due for release soon too!
