One Horse Pony is a hard driving acoustic blues band based in Cork and features musicians from Ireland, France and Poland.
Their unique line-up of guitars, harmonica, double-bass, bodhran and low whistle inspires their fresh take on the blues, while their original material and energetic live performances have won them fans all over the world and made them staples on the Irish and European festival circuit.
Ambience Affair are delighted to announce their long-awaited return with their new single ‘Prophet’ (OUT 25.03.15)
Dublin Studio Hub in conjunction with the Daily Mail is giving six Irish Indie Bands a FIGHTING CHANCE with a free Full Recording and production Session in the prestigious Windmill Lane Studio 1. Winners are chosen by selection, entries close 27th March.
White Chalk have had their track, “Architects”, selected by Sky Sports for use in their coverage of the Premiership. The song was chosen for a special montage featuring top Premiership teams Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton and Manchester United on Sunday 15th March.
The song was used again during last Sunday’s big game Manchester United vs Liverpool, with an audience of over 2.7 million people watching the game in the UK and an estimated worldwide audience of over 14 million.
The band have been busy over the last few months touring Germany, Austria and Switzerland supporting Rea Garvey on his European arena tour and have just returned from the UK after supporting one of Ireland’s biggest bands Kodaline.
White Chalk have a number of dates booked for this year, including performances in the UK and Germany. Their new single “Back To The Start” is play listed on 2fm and most regional radio stations around the country.
UPCOMING GIGS:
25th April Stables Mullingar
30th April – 4th May UK Tour Dates
30th May Headline Academy 2 Dublin
20th June Backstage Theatre Longford
27th June – 8th July Germany Tour Dates
24th July Headline Rooskey Festival
August/September Summer festivals to be announced
Enda Reilly continues his series of performances at St Finian’s Church on Adelaide Road this Saturday, 28th March, with support from Aisling Kavanagh. Enda’s set will include a mix of songs from “Amhráin i nGaeilge”, poetry songs, climate change songs and some of Enda’s other co-writes and compositions.
Enda is a singer, guitarist and songwriter from Dublin whose current projects include New Songs In Irish, his Climate Change Songs Workshops and Arise and Go! a collaboration with poet Stephen James Smith. Enda is a former winner of the IMRO Christie Hennessy Song Competition, Comórtas Amhráin Rónán Beo @3 and has represented Ireland with songs in minority language song competitions. He has played concerts with John Spillane, Kila, Liam O Maonlai and Rónán O Snodaigh amongst others.
Aisling Kavanagh has been playing and writing her own material for the last eight years. Following a succesful trip to Nashville in 2010 where she wrote with some of the city’s songwriting stalwarts including Tom Kimmel (Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt) and Sally Barris (Trisha Yearwood), Aisling released her EP “Tracks for Home” (Produced by Brendan Doherty) in 2011 to a very positive critical response.
Enda and Aisling have been friends and collaborators for several years and co-wrote “Do Mhuirnín Ó”, featured in Enda’s new album “Amhráin Nua i nGaeilge”, as part of their successful partnership. “Do Mhuirnín Ó” was a finalist in the the Sean McCarthy Ballad Competition and Aisling also tasted success as a runner up in the renowned Glinsk Song Contest. In addition Aisling’s songs have featured in an Irish short film production titled “Tome Feenes”. Aisling currently lives in Scotland and is working on new material. She was delighted to be asked by Enda to play her first gig on home soil in over three years.
Enda Reilly with support from Aisling Kavanagh
8pm 28th March in St. Finian’s Church, Adelaide Road, Dublin 2.
Tickets €10 if you book online at www.endareilly.com/gigs/ or €12 at the door. (Tickets bought online will be held at the door.)
“All That Ever Happens” is the latest single and video from Dublin based Italian songwriter, Giuliano Nistri. The video is the first to be released from Giuliano’s current album, “All the Songs in One Night”.
The video was created by Music Shoots and was directed by Tomasz Bereska and Giuliano.
“All the Songs in One Night” is now available on iTunes . Check out www.giuliano.ie for details of upcoming gigs.
“The Wicklow Ways” is a newly written work for orchestra by Irish composer, Vincent Kennedy, and comprises 73 young Wicklow musicians performing on violin, recorder, ukulele, guitar, piano and a whole host of drums and tuned percussion instruments. The piece will receive its world premiere this Sunday, 22nd March in the Mermaid Arts Centre in two concerts at 3pm and 4:30pm.
Vincent Kennedy was commissioned by Wicklow County Council under the Per Cent for Art Scheme and on behalf of Music Generation Wicklow to engage with four schools across County Wicklow to create the piece. Four workshops have taken place in each school – Scoil Chaoimhin Naofa, Gleann da Loch, Co. Chill Mhantain; St Laurences National School, Kindlestown, Greystones, Co. Wicklow; Lacken National School, Blessington, Co.Wicklow; St Cronans National School, Vevay Road, Bray, Co.Wicklow – since September 2014 , engaging the young musicians in fun and challenging ways, inspiring them to perform to the best of their abilities and reach new heights in their musical development.
Speaking of the project, Vincent said: “Wicklow, the Garden of Ireland, has always had a special place in my life and heart. Therefore receiving the commission to write The Wicklow Ways presented me with an opportunity to write music that celebrates the beauty and loveliness of the place and its people and also some of what it means and has meant to me. This experience has also been very important to me because as a seven year old in CBS Westland Row I got the chance to take up music and it changed my life. To be involved with these wonderful young people at the beginning of their music education is tremendous. To experience their enthusiasm, their sense of fun in learning, their kindnesses, their beautiful smiles and laughs, and to see how they have grown musically through the process has been inspiring.”
He added: “I have also experienced some of why they are doing so well and that is down to their brilliant and enthusiastic music teachers, their class teachers and assistants, the support and enthusiasm of the school principals and their dedicated staff and the support of their families and Wicklow Music Generation.”
Along with the children of the WOW Orchestra (Wonderful Orchestra of Wicklow) Aisling Seery plays “Rain, Water, Life” on Piccolo, Descant and Treble Recorders, Eamon Sweeney performs “Glendalough” on classical guitar, Sinéad Finegan premiers “Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh” on Violin with Svetlana Rudenko on piano, Terry Clancy gives the first performance of “Sea and Sky Blues” on Alto Saxophone, Rama Block beating his drums leads us on “A Night on Sugar Loaf Mountain” and James Dunne takes us on a journey by “Steam Train from Greystones to Bray” up and down his Xylophone.
The Wicklow Ways by Vincent Kennedy from Contemporary Music Centre on Vimeo.
The Wicklow Ways is one of four new music works commissioned by Wicklow County Council and produced by the Contemporary Music Centre under the Per Cent for Art Scheme on behalf of Music Generation Wicklow. These commissions have involved some 300 children and young people between the ages of 6 and 16 across County Wicklow.
Tickets are €6 (single ticket) and €12 (family of four). Bookings online via Mermaid Arts Centre or by phone 01 272 4030.
A new work by Irish composer Linda Buckley will be premiered at Up Close with Music presented by Concorde at the RHA Gallery on Sunday 29 March. Performances feature new Irish music in an international context and take place from 2.30 – 4.30 pm. Music from Ireland, USA, Iceland, Hong Kong and the UK will be performed by Concorde.
The programme features:
Performers in the February concert are Paul Roe, clarinets; Elaine Clark, violin; Martin Johnson, cello; Dermot Dunne, accordion; and Paul Kiernan, trumpet – Concorde’s student performer for the 2015 series.
Up Close with Music is supported by a Project Award from the Arts Council in partnership with the RHA Gallery.
Sunday 29 March 2015
2.30 – 3.15 pm & 3.45 – 4.30 pm RHA Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin 2
Admission Free…early arrival advised!
STILLROOM are back with the second single, “Keep on Walkin'”, from their debut album “Good To Be Alive”. Dead Dogs Eye is the production company behind the bands latest video. Shot stylishly in black and white and featuring some familiar faces from the cast of hit dramas Love Hate and Red Rock, the video tells the age old story of the strong vs the weak.
The classic rock merchants from Dublin released “Good To Be Alive” last year followed by a nationwide tour. The album was recorded at Ashtown Studios, produced by Tommy O’Sullivan and mastered by Aidan Foley and is available on iTunes here.
Keep an eye on Stillroom’s Facebook page for details of their upcoming gigs. In the meantime, check out the video for “Keep on Walkin'” here:
https://soundcloud.com/stillroom
Born in Dublin but now plying her trade in London, Roberta Howett is a double whammy of talent and beauty which comes along very rarely indeed. A finalist on X-Factor in 2004, she has worked since on developing a successful career as a musician and songwriter, and is now ready for a solo release.
