Month: May 2011

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Fil Campbell continues her tour around Ireland in May with her two accompanying musicians – Tom McFarland on percussion and Brendan Emmett on guitar and mandolin.  The concert is full of old Irish favourites that Fil learned as a child along with some of her own songs and tunes from Brendan and Tom.
This tour has already taken the trio to Omagh, Newry, the Naul and Castleblaney and they will continue at the following venues before the end of May.
 
 
Tues 24th May: Mill Theatre, Dundrum, Dublin.
 
Sat 27th May: Tech Amergin Theatre, Waterville, Co. Kerry
 
Sun 28th May: St John’s Arts Centre, Listowel, Co. Kerry
 
 
Songbirds Part Two: Farewell to Cold Winter  is the title of Fil's new CD and she will be including some of these songs in these concerts.    It is a second collection of songs to come out of the successful TV series Songbirds.  Songbirds, was aired successfully in Ireland on RTE and was highly acclaimed critically.  In the series Fil paid tribute to the women singers popular in Ireland in the first half of the 20th century.
 
Farewell to Cold Winter is a nod back to a gentler era of music, and Fil’s voice really suits the sentiment of these beautiful old gems.
 
“When I went in to the studio a couple of years ago to start work on a new CD, I realised that there were still a lot of songs associated with the Songbirds project which I wanted to record.
 
For example, I discovered a beautiful song in my grandfather’s collection of old 78s called The Connemara Shore, which had been recorded by Jack Feeney in the 1930s.   This started my journey into the songs of that era and lead to an album tribute of Delia Murphy songs, which in turn lead to the television series Songbirds.   But The Connemara Shore didn’t fit into the series, so I had to do a second CD in order to get a chance to sing it!! Seamus Brett accompanies me for that song on piano.
 
Several of these songs, like the Spinning Wheel and If I Were A Blackbird,  I had learned as a child from my mother and others I fell in love with as I researched and got to know the lives and works of the Songbirds ladies.”
 
The CD is now available from www.filcampbell.com and from stockists of Irish music across the country.  
You can also FB –Fil at her Facebook page – www.facebook.com/filcampbellmusic
 

James Vincent McMorrow has been confirmed as a special guest on the eighth and final episode in the current series of ‘Later…With Jools Holland’. McMorrow will form part of a stellar line-up, which also features Friendly Fires, Blondie, Yuck and Beverley Knight. The show will broadcast live on Tuesday May 24 (10pm, BBC2) before airing in full on Friday May 27 (11.50pm, BBC2). 
 

James will perform songs from his acclaimed debut album, ‘Early In The Morning’, which recently went Gold in Ireland.  He has since gone on to tour the UK, America and Europe, sell out two London shows (St Pancras Church, the ICA) and recently saw round-the-block queues for his stunning appearance at Great Escape Festival.  James will also play key spots at Glastonbury’s Park Stage (June 26), Cambridge Folk Festival (July 28) and Camp Bestival (July 29).  James returns for dates in US and also supports Arcade Fire at Montreux Jazz Festival in Canada. More will be announced shortly: in the meantime, James will release a brand new single, the stirring ‘Sparrow & The Wolf’, on June 24th
 
James plays Olympia Dublin on 21st October.
 
Early in the Morning is out now.
 

The Irish tour of Movement of Sound will take place in venues in Cork, Limerick and Dublin this summer. The project will combine the art forms of dance and music in a series of events throughout the month of June. 
 
Movement of Sound seeks to combine movement and sound in a way that will speak across a number of artistic platforms, attracting fresh and untried audiences and creating new and more complete experiences of movement, sound, movement through sound and sound through movement.

This project will involve 4 artists: Karen Power (composer / live electronics), Mary Nunan (dancer and choreographer), Deirdre O’Leary (clarinet/ bass clarinet) and Kate Ellis (cello).
 
Movement of Sound combines a new collaborative work by Power/Nunan with exciting Irish premiers by international composers; Saariaho, Tiensuu and Hyla.
 
Tour Dates:
June 14th, Triskel, Christchurch, Cork (in association with MidSummer Festival), 1pm. Tickets: €8/10 www.triskelart.com

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The Irish Youth Music Awards – Sunday 15th May, Liberty Hall

In between sessions for the forthcoming ‘Sub-Zero Heroes’ album Tony has found time to produce another solo collection of new songs – Don’t Worry About Me I’m O.K. In particular it features ‘Gone Too Soon’, a track written by Tony in memory of Chris ‘Titch’ Hallam. Chris tragically died earlier this year following a motorbike accident during a charity run in India. The song is available for free download at

http://www.reverbnation.com/tonyfloydkenna .
 

From start to finish the five tracks on this release are full of energy and tell about life with a passion. Don’t Worry ‘bout Me I’m O.K. will be available on all the usual music sites by May 25th. Meanwhile for more previews go to

http://www.myspace.com/tonyfloydkenna .
 

Alternative punk trio, Axis Of, are getting ready to take Europe by storm this summer with a series of gigs in Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Holland. Having already trekked around the UK and Ireland countless times before and performed at festivals far and wide such as Glasgowbury, Pigstock, Soundcity in Liverpool and Eurocultured in Manchester, the Belfast-based three-piece now set their sights on mainland Europe in a bid to blow away audiences with their righteous brand of nu-school punk rock.

Axis Of are already receiving much love from the music press in Ireland and the UK, and they now plan to capitalize on their rapidly growing reputation as a fearsome live act with the re-release of their EP, ‘Port Na Spaniagh/Brobdingnagian’, on June 6th, featuring both of those incendiary tracks plus ‘We Dine On Seeds’.

The hardworking band spent last Christmas recording music for Radio One at the legendary Maida Vale studios in London and 2011 sees them emerge as one of the most exciting bands to come out of Northern Ireland in recent years. Initial tour dates in support of the release of ‘Port Na Spaniagh/Brobdinagian’ are detailed below.

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