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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