Co. Mayo Vocational Education Committee invites applications for the position of
CO-ORDINATOR MUSIC GENERATION MAYO
A Co-ordinator will be appointed by Co. Mayo V.E.C. and will be responsible for managing an extensive music education programme on behalf of the Music Education Partnership in Co. Mayo.
Co. Mayo has recently been selected for participation in Music Generation – Ireland’s National Music Education Programme which is funded by U2 and The Ireland Funds. Music Generation aims to help children and young people to access vocal and instrumental tuition in their local area.
Application Form and further details of the post can be downloaded from www.mayovec.ie or are available from the Personnel Section, on receipt of a stamped addressed envelope (A4).
Closing date for receipt of completed Application Forms for the above post (hard copy only) is 12.00 noon on Friday, 29thJuly, 2011.
Co. Mayo V.E.C. is an equal opportunities employer. Canvassing will disqualify. Shortlisting may apply. Late applications will not be accepted.
It's been a busy year musically for Dennis McCalmont.
Last summer, he Co-Wrote and Composed a number of songs for the Terry Reilly/Tommy Marren Musical Production 'On A Wing And A Prayer' the Story Of Knock Airport, which was a huge success, selling out shows at 'The Royal Theatre' Castlebar, and raising much needed funding for the Mayo /Roscommon Hospice.
Earlier this year Dennis's song 'Carousel' was Short-listed for the Final of 'The Irish Daily Mail' 'Fighting Chance' for Unsigned Artists.
'Carousel' is featured on his new album 'Nature Of Life' which offers 14 original songs, that McCalmont Wrote/Recorded/Mixed and Produced. Think 'Neil Young' jamming with the 'Fleet Foxes' and you will get a flavour for these Acoustic driven songs, coloured with Vocal harmonies.
PLAY, a summer music festival for all the family kicks off at The Ark today. And if you’ve ever wished that you could bring young children to hear great live music, then this is the festival is for you!
Running Wednesdays-Sundays until 21 August, PLAY features five weekends of entertaining afternoon concerts for families, offering a chance for you to join in and make some music with outstanding musicians including Julie Feeney, the “pop genius” (Hot Press) behind the hit song Impossibly Beautiful, fiddle player Zoë Conway (described as “incredible” by RTÉ’s Gay Byrne), the hilarious Size2Shoes – of whom Stephen Spielberg is a big fan, the Grant/Kelly family ensemble, and many more.
You can fill-up summer-break weekdays with The Ark’s jam-packed programme of music workshops, which let children aged 2 to12 experience all the excitement and fun of making music, even if they’ve never picked up an instrument before.
There are also free electronic sound installations. Perfect if you’ve ever wondered what a can of baked beans sounds like or fancy playing a real drumkit without touching it!
Book now at ark.ie or call 01 670 7788
Tickets €10 (€8 concessions)
The Irish Composers’ Collective will host an audiovisual concert, "Eyes and Ears", in the Kevin Barry Room of the National Concert Hall on Wednesday 27th July.
"Eyes and Ears" will feature collaborations between six composers and five visual/video artists, a first for the Irish Composers' Collective and something they plan to do more of in the future. One artist responding with visuals, one with sound, this evening of premieres shouldn't be missed.
The evening will feature Bryan Dunphy & Karl McHugh, Francis Heery & Catherine Harty, Bill McGrath & Alexis-Francois Morand, Anna Murray, Natasa Paterson & Eileen Carpio, Dennis Wyers & Alexandra Hanes.
The concert takes place at 8:30pm with a pre-concert talk at 8:15pm.
Programme:
Bryan Dunphy & Karl McHugh – 97 Accent
Francis Heery & Catherine Harty – Seesound
Bill McGrath & Alexis-Francois Morand – Chattering
Anna Murray (music & visuals) – Autowork
Natasa Paterson & Eileen Carpio – Eli Eli
Dennis Wyers & Alexandra Hanes – Untitled
For further details and information on all upcoming ICC events see their website and Facebook page.
Saturday July 16th – Whelans, 25 Wexford Street, Dublin 2
TICKETS: €15 plus booking fee available from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078], Tickets.ie & Ticketmaster.
Doors: 7pm – Early Start! More info on hamsandwichmusic.com & whelanslive.com
::: All proceeds will be donated to the Nally family :::
The popular promoter, manager and fondly loved raconteur Derek Nally died of a heart attack on Thursday 15 July, 2010. His sudden passing one year ago sent shockwaves throughout the entire Irish music community.
Derek worked with the great and the good over the years including Judy Collins, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Bert Jansch, John Cale, Guy Clarke, Townes Van Zandt, John Martyn, Allen Toussaint, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Alex Chilton, Arlo Guthrie, Booker T, and John Cooper Clarke, to mention just a few. He also managed the acclaimed Irish acts Juliet Turner and Ham Sandwich, steering their careers with remarkable passion and enthusiasm. Derek was particularly generous with his time when it came to offering advice to up and coming musicians, promoters and managers. His encyclopedic knowledge of music coupled with his straight-forward business ideals served him well in a long and esteemed career. His legacy is a positive example to everyone who works in the music industry.
The band Derek was most closely associated with Ham Sandwich and numerous other friends from the music community will gather together on July 15 in memory and celebration of this legendary figure.
A Tribute to Derek Nally
Featuring
HAM SANDWICH
+ very special guests (more to be added):
Jape
Pugwash
Goodtime
Blink
Valerie Francis
Barry McCormack
Ann Scott
Paul Finn (The Flaws)
& members of the Dublin Gospel Choir
Including some very special guests!
Peermusic, the world’s largest independent music publishing company and Mark Needham/Man Entertainment Inc., have entered into an exclusive songwriting and co-publishing deal in conjunction with Keywest, the 5 piece pop/rock group based in Dublin,Ireland. The announcement was made by Sam Kling, Vice President A&R, Peermusic.
“We are thrilled to be working with such an exciting and talented new band,” said Kling, “both Mark and myself look forward to playing a hands-on role in the development of their already booming career.”
Nominated for Most Promising New Act at the Meteor’s in 2010, the Dublin based band have had a busy 12 months playing venues across the country as well as travelling to and from Los Angeles recording their debut album, “The Message” which will be released in advance of their Academy show in October 2011.
The deal is a massive step for Keywest in their development as a top international act. "We still can't quite believe that one of the biggest publishing companies in the world has noticed our music and acknowledged it as being up there. We are really excited and looking forward to working with a great team of people and continuing our musical journey"
Founded by Ralph S. Peer in 1928, peermusic is the world’s largest global independent publishing company with well over a quarter of a million titles in the company’s catalogue.
Wicklow based five piece More Tiny Giants will launch their debut album “King HeSheMe” in Whelan's of Wexford St. On 8th July 2010. “King hesheme” showcases a truly original sound gathering inspiraton from bands such as Tom Waits, The Pixies, The White Stripes and Sonic Youth to name but a few. The band will launch the album with a gig at at Whelan's which will begin at 8pm. All welcome. Entry to the gig will be €7 which includes a free copy of the album. For more information please visit:
www.facebook.com/MoreTinyGiants.
www.moretinygiants.com/
Niall Toner has been a Bill Monroe fan ever since the late 1950s, when as a young man in his native Dublin, he was introduced to Bill’s Bluegrass Music by the son of a neighbour in Harold’s Cross, Fran O’Donnell.
This early introduction led to a lifetime of devotion to this unique brand of American Acoustic music, and also to many meetings with the Father of Bluegrass, most notably in Belfast in 1975, Cork in 1984 and at Bean Blossom, Indiana in 1985.
Bill Monroe died in September 1996, and left a musical legacy that is today, revered, collected and performed the world over. This year, 2011, is being celebrated as the 100th anniversary of his birth in Rosine, Kentucky, in 1911.
It was in Rosine, Kentucky, at the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Festival in 2006, that Niall began composing his tribute song to the music and life of his music hero. Niall says “I was walking up the hill, towards Jerusalem Ridge, with the sound of the bluegrass bands on stage fading into the distance behind me when I got the idea for the chorus of this song. I had been reading some of WB Yeats poems, and I was struck by Yeats’ description of “peace dropping slow”, in the Lake Isle of Inisfree, as it seemed to be doing in the woods of the Ridge, and by the time I got back to the Festival site, I had the chorus complete. It took me another five years to write the four simple verses in the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains, 3000 miles away!” (Perseverance!)
William Smith Monroe was recorded in the Toolshed Studios in Nashville in April 2011, and was produced by Keith Sewell (Dixie Chicks, Sam Bush, Lyle Lovett).
WSM is released worldwide on July 4, 2011, and is available on iTunes, amazon.com and Niall’s website: www.nialltonerband.com. WSM is also being distributed to 550 radio stations in the USA and Canada on New Cuts of Bluegrass Volume 3, (in good company with Rhonda Vincent, Ricky Skaggs, Doyle Lawson, Grasstowne, Kathy Kallick and others), and is also available for radio station download from Air Play Direct.
The Spanish film "The magic of hope" aka (el vuelo del tren) directed by the Andalusian-Dublin based directorPaco Torres is participating in the Galway Film Festival on 7th July, at 21.15pm at Omniplex Galway. The film features two version of Eleanor McEvoys song : I Hear you Breathing In. One version is the version from the massively successful “Woman's Heart Album” and the other one is a slower piano version McEvoy did on her critically acclaimed album "Yola".
This week sees the beginning of the twenty-third edition of the Galway Film Festival, the largest in Ireland and an excellent springboard for the international market, especially the American, with the presence of Producers, Distributors and Sales Agents.
Torres will be attending the festival from 5th to July 10th , where he will attend the screening on the 7th of July. Meanwhile, the Spanish-Irish based director will be presenting his next project "Blue Guitar" which has been selected at the Galway Film Fair, a film to be shoot in Ireland and New York, with Kais Nashef, the Palestinian actor from the film "Paradise Now" as a lead character, in a film full of emotion that arises as far as the violence could considered a heroic act. Eleanor McEvoy is also working with him on this new feature film.
Speaking of her song being used in Tores' film, Eleanor said: "Paco Tores the spanish film maker, heard one of my songs I Hear You Breathing In on Sunshine Radio and decided it would be perfect for a sequence in his new film " El Vuelo Del Tren" ('The Magic Of Hope'). Strangely I have two recorded versions, with different arrangements. One from the Woman's Heart album and the other from my album 'Yola' I didn't at first know which one he wanted. He took both"
It is a well known fact that Ireland is a hive of talented musicians, songwriters, DJs and artists, many of whom never get the opportunity to develop their talents and make the breakthrough required for the world to take notice. Songwriting and production duo, Joe McNally and Elvin (David) Cochrane, have experienced firsthand the difficulties encountered by artists trying to make their voices heard, and in 2010, frustrated at the lack of opportunities for talented artists, they decided to do something about it – UAC Music was born.
UAC Music is a fresh, exciting music production , songwriting and development company from Northern Ireland that specialises in various areas within the music industry. As well as writing, producing and remixing for some of the music industry’s biggest artists under various aliases, the duo have also embarked on a mission to assist up and coming artists in the development of all aspects of their careers, whether that be helping with the final touches of their songwriting, getting songs to a stage where they sound professionally mixed and mastered or even advice on the correct equipment to achieve the best results.
Producer/Writer & DJ Elvin David explains: “The music industry is vast and it became apparent to us in the early stages of our development just how important it is to make the right connections with the right people in the industry and that this was as important if not more, than having total dedication, talent, drive and self belief. Ireland has so much talent going unnoticed and we want to help rectify that.”
Elvin’s partner, songwriter and former Musical Director at Emerald Music Ireland, Joe McNally, adds “Most artists don’t think of themselves as a ‘business’ and therefore they can be missing out on many opportunities to create revenue by operating like a business to maximise their earning potential. There is sometimes a wide gap of knowledge between the musician and the marketing representative who will have the direction, business knowledge and of course the correct contacts within the industry to propel the artist’s songs into the world market. With the advent of the internet, you are only a few clicks away from gaining basic knowledge and fundamentals you may require to move forward, but from there the direction from a professional who has the experience within the industry can only improve your chances of getting heard – providing, of course, the material is indeed strong enough.”
In the past year, UAC Music has formed a working partnership with Northern Ireland independent record label, Yogen Records, where Elvin is also the Sub-Labels Manager. They have also collaborated with Ivan Clarke from Glide and Swerve / Bobcat Publishing on a remix of Boy George’s “Pentonville Blues” and Jason Francis at Premier Productions on the Alex Higgins tribute song, “Alex Was the Man”. With Yogen Music, they are helping to bring local talent to radio and television, and develop artists from the initial recording process to worldwide release and publishing. The most recent project for Elvin is the Se7en Sessions production of Hollyoaks songstress, Abi Phillips, song “Summer Sunshine”, set to be a summer hit.
For artists trying to gain a foothold in the music industry, and who may be on a tight budget, Joe advises that artists invest in their future development through UAC or a similar service. “The services we offer would have been invaluable to us when we were starting out. Firstly, we would have saved ourselves a lot of money by eliminating the need to constantly buy and sell equipment to find out what was right for us and we also could have saved countless years and months of time spent trying to figure out how to use this equipment to its full potential.”
Joe, an IMRO member since 2001, is also keen to emphasise the importance of attending the various IMRO seminars and workshops, which helped both Joe and Elvin develop their craft, not only as writers and producers, but also helped them to gain a better sense of direction and enhance their self-belief.
So what next for UAC Music? Top of the duo’s list is to become the most successful song-writing, development and production company for new and existing talent from Northern Ireland and further afield, and to increase opportunities for artists to have a higher success rate within the music industry. As well as keeping the hits flowing, above all UAC Music want to keep enjoying what they do and helping to provide a platform for up and coming talent artists who may not be getting the attention they deserve.
For more information on the various services that UAC Music provide, see www.uacmusic.com.
