Festival Concert / Ceolchoirmeacha
Festival Concerts/Ceolchoirmeacha
Niamh Ní Charra
JULIE FOWLIS / PAUL BROCK & ENDA SCAHILL
Date / Dáta: Saturday 26 January Venue / Ionad: Project Arts Centre
Time / Am: 6.30pm Adm / Cead Isteach: €15/€12
Date / Dáta: Saturday 26 January Venue / Ionad: Button Factory
Time / Am: 8.30pm Adm / Cead Isteach: €22.50 / €20
Niamh Ní Charra
JULIE FOWLIS
Kerry fiddler, Niamh Ní Charra has been strongly influenced by the wealth of local Sliabh Luachra musicians she grew up around. Somewhat of a child prodigy, she had support gigs for The Chieftains and Noel Hill under her belt before she reached her teens!
For those of us who don’t speak the (Gaelic) language, Julie’s records are like beautiful messages from another world. As enchanting, beguiling and fascinating as songs by Kate Bush and Bjork - Mark Radcliffe, BBC
A former member of the Riverdance troup, Niamh has delighted audiences with her fiery fiddling, fancy footwork and dazzling smiles across Europe, North America, South America and Asia. Niamh has now returned to Dublin, Ireland where she works as a solo and freelance musician, regularly gigging across the city. She released her debut album “Ón Dá Thaobh / From Both Sides” in 2007 to much critical acclaim. The album was listed in respected music reviewer Colin Irwin’s Top Ten Folk Albums of 2007 for MOJO Magazine (Niamh was the only Irish artist listed). She has also recently joined the Carlos Nunez band and and now tours with them as a solo artist.
FESTIVAL CLUB This year’s festival club will be held in the bar of Project Arts Centre, located on East Essex Street in Temple Bar. When the night’s formal events are finished, the club will remain open and will provide a venue for musicians and audiences to relax, get to know each other, and maybe share a tune. So come along to the Festival Club, meet the stage artists on a common ground and have a bit of craic together! The Festival Club will open from 11.00 until late each night over the festival weekend. Date/Dáta: Venue: Ionad: Time / Am: Adm / Cead Isteach:
Wednesday 23 to Sunday 27 January Project Arts Centre, bar upstairs 11.00pm FREE
Julie Fowlis burst onto the wider music scene in 2006, when she became the first ever Scottish Gaelic singer to win a prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Award. Since winning the Horizon Award for best newcomer, she has won the hearts of audiences around the globe. The songs she was brought up with in the Hebrides can now be heard just as regularly on mainstream radio throughout the world as they can be at home on Gaelic radio - as was shown in her ground breaking nomination for Folk Singer of the Year 2007 at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Bringing centuries old songs from the windswept islands of the Hebrides to a modern audience, Julie remains steadfastly true to her roots in North Uist. If you haven’t heard her before, be prepared to be surprised by her music and her breathtaking vocal power. This is true Gaelic music. Come listen.
PAUL BROCK & ENDA SCAHILL A multiple All-Ireland champion born in Athlone, County Westmeath, Paul Brock pursued a solo career through the ‘60s and ‘70s by mastering the single-row, two-row, three-row, and five-row button accordIons. His collaborations with fiddle player Frankie Gavin during the ‘70s and ‘80s culminated in their 1986 Gael-Linn recording ‘Tribute to Joe Cooley’, regarded by critics and fellow musicians as one of the outstanding traditional albums of the modern era. Galway-born banjo player Enda Scahill has long established himself as one of the finest exponents of traditional Irish banjo playing and is widely recognised for his banjo teaching abilities. His solo album ‘Pick It Up’ was widely acclaimed. Enda has been described as ‘just about the strongest banjo I’ve have ever heard’ (Art Ketchin, Celtic Beat) and Irish American News in Chicago said ‘[Enda] does things on the banjo which should be impossible’. Paul and Enda’s 2006 release ‘Humdinger’ was voted ‘Irish Music Album of The Year’ by the Irish Times and ‘Instrumental Album of the Year’ in Irish American News. Paddy Maloney of the Chieftains hailed the album’s ‘incredible virtuosic playing’ and ‘Humdinger’ has been released by Compass Records in Nashville, USA.
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