Author: Press Officer

Want to meet some of Ireland’s new music makers? See what they look like and hear how they sound?

The Art of Sound exhibition showing in Ballymote Community Library, Co. Sligo, 1 – 31 May offers the opportunity to do just that. Admission is free and the exhibition runs during library opening hours. Presented by the Contemporary Music Centre this multi-media exhibition looks at new music making from the first idea through to the final performance. The creative process usually takes place behind closed doors, but this exhibition brings it to life through striking photographs of the composers and images of their work.

The Art of Sound exhibition features photographer Eugene Langan’s dramatic and perceptive photographs of Irish composers. An audio-guide narrated by Eamonn Lawlor, RTÉ lyric fm, brings to life the music that is displayed, leading to a truly unique and rich experience for the visitor.

In tandem with the exhibition the Contemporary Music Centre, in partnership with Music in Drumcliffe, presents a New Music Literary Trail during the Music in Drumcliffe Festival, 5 – 7 May 2012 featuring composers Brian Boydell, Rhona Clarke and Donnacha Dennehy and music inspired by W.B. Yeats. This New Music Literary Trail takes place in the grounds of St Columba’s Church, Drumcliffe and is FREE admission.

Originally devised by the Contemporary Music Centre in partnership with the Music Department of University College Cork, The Art of Sound exhibition at Ballymote Community Library is made possible through the support of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Ballymote Community Library.

For information on Ballymote Community Library please contact tel: 071 9111669 or www.sligolibrary.ie

Presented by the Contemporary Music Centre at Ballymote Community Library, Sligo

 The Art of Sound – a multimedia exhibition

1 – 31 May 2012     Ballymote Community Library, Teeling St., Ballymote, Co. Sligo

ADMISSION FREE

 Featuring

Gerald Barry
Mícheál Ó’Súilleabháin
Seán Ó’Riada
Jennifer Walshe
Seóirse Bodley
Barry Guy
John Gibson
Frank Corcoran
Rob Canning
Aloys Fleischman
Fergus Johnston
Grainne Mulvey
Kevin Volans
Judith Ring
Stephen Gardner
James Wilson
John Wolf Brennan
Benjamin Dwyer
Deirdre Gribbin
Raymond Deane

with audio-visual guide by Eamon Lawlor, RTÉ lyric fm

Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting is the first single to be taken from the debut solo album – RHYTHM AND REPOSE – Release date – JUNE 15 (Plateau).

(Filmed in Jamaica)

From the album Family out 15th June.

The band have just been announced to play the Forbidden Fruit festival on Sunday 3rd June.

 Killarney singer-songwriter Karrie is releasing her new single ‘This Crush’ amid a flurry of live gigs around the country, including support slots with current album chart-topper Mick Flannery, Mundy and John Spillane, as well as her own headline shows. Further dates will be confirmed in due course.

Taken from her well-received album Jellylegged, ‘This Crush’ showcases Karrie’s unique songwriting and vocal style. The single includes additional instrumentation by Chris Ahern who was a key member of The Stargazers.

 Karrie’s new single ‘This Crush’ can be heard at http://www.karriesmusic.com/audio/11__THIS_CRUSH_MP3_clip_0-60_hifi.m3u

Karrie played to a full house at The Sky and The Ground in Wexford on April 18, and afterwards said, “I’m really pleased with the feedback I’m getting from the gigs, the single and the Jellylegged album. The music world is totally new to me, having spent most of my working life breaking horses. But I always had a keen interest in music and it’s a real privilege now to be able to devote so much time to my songs and my performing.”

KARRIE-FULL TOUR SCHEDULE:

April 26, The Ruby Room, Castlebar, Co Mayo (supporting Mick Flannery)

April 27, The Olympia, Dublin (supporting Mick Flannery)

April 28, The Spirit Store, Dundalk (supporting Mick Flannery)

April 29, Whelans, Dublin (supporting John Spillane)

May 6, Whelans, Dublin (supporting John Spillane)

May 9, The Pavilion, Cork (supporting The Man Whom)

May 10, Sol y Sombra, Killorglin, Co Kerry (supporting Mundy)

May 25 Scartaglen Heritage Centre, Co Kerry (headline gig)

June 1 McCarthy’s Bar, Dingle, Co Kerry (headline gig)

Karrie’s new single ‘This Crush’ can be heard at  http://soundcloud.com/karrie-meenala-music/11-this-crush-mp3 

www.karriesmusic.com

The double album, releasing in Ireland on Proper Records on Friday April 20^th 2012

Dancer in the Fire is a rich and diverse double CD collection of some of Paul Brady’s favourite recordings, personally chosen by the artist and serving as a companion to Nobody Knows – The Best of Paul Brady, a single CD compilation released in 1999.   The anthology releases in Ireland on Friday April 20^th and will be followed by a short Irish tour, dates yet to be announced.

 Brady has long considered putting a ‘personal collection’ of recordings together, not necessarily commercial hits or record label sure-bets, but ones which resonate with him on a deeply personal level, songs that evoke memories of the times that created them and the life that he lived, loved and loathed whilst writing and recording them. While many tracks on Dancer in the Fire are hugely popular, much played and much listened to, here too are songs that might have languished in the latter part of an early album, songs that existed only on the flipside, songs that probably never travelled along a radio airwave. Brady explains: “Since I went solo in the late 70’s I’ve released fifteen albums, that’s one hundred and forty songs or so, most of them new compositions. In the late 90’s I put out a best-of-to-date, ‘Nobody Knows’, featuring fourteen of my most popular recordings from the previous two decades. Undoubtedly a lot of those were favourites of mine but like many artists I know, I don’t always feel the most popular songs or the most successful recordings are necessarily the best things I’ve done.  Sometimes you find yourself neglecting songs you absolutely loved when you wrote and recorded them, simply because they never really seemed to connect with the listener at the time.  Or maybe you just thought they didn’t.”

Often asked to name a personal favourite recording over his forty five year career, Brady has grappled with the answer “I’ve gone through so many musical shapes over my life that I’m never sure which incarnation the question relates to. Sometimes I feel compelled to name those songs or recordings that are the best known, imagining that if I mention one less familiar or from a different genre to where the person asking is coming from, then there may not be a lot more to say.” What is certain in the track selection on Dancer in the Fire is that Brady is no longer concerned with attempting to please the questioner with what he perceives they might wish to hear or expect him to say. The release of this personal collection and the song choices contained within it are a reflection of the peaceful, more quietly contented headspace in which the writer, singer and musician now exists. Brady has made peace with the songs and the events that gave them life. 

 Of the music in the anthology, Brady explains: “With this record I decided to focus on songs and recordings of mine that I’m personally fond of, mostly those that might not have got a lot of attention or been all that well known. Some recordings have been out of circulation for years. In a couple of cases I’ve remixed a well known song. The only area I’ve left alone is my most recent album ‘Hooba Dooba’ and those recordings already on the 1999 Best Of…” He adds: “To anyone coming to my music for the first time this may seem an eclectic collection. I’ve grown up in the rich musical environment of Ireland from the 1950s to the present day; a unique and heady mixture. I feel very lucky to have formed my musical identity before the rigid categorisation introduced by marketing and the media in the 70s. The stylistic diversity of this record bears witness to that fertile ground.”

www.paulbrady.com  

The Kevin Barry Room at The National Concert Hall

8.30pm, 25 April 2012: The RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet

 Aloys Fleischmann: Movement for String Quartet

Raymond Deane: Embers

Ian Wilson: Winter’s Edge (C)

Deirdre Gribbon: Merrow Sang (C)

David Flynn: The Cranning

Siobhán Cleary: Scenes from a Dongba Script (World Premiere) (C)

NewSoundWorlds joins forces with The Contemporary Music Centre to present an evening of Irish new music. On the back of their successful Spring Tour around Ireland, join us in welcoming the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet to the Kevin Barry Room and prepare for an evening of home grown talent. Including works commissioned especially for them, the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet perform an inspired programme of Irish works.

This performance includes the World Premiere of a new work written by NewSoundWorlds curator Siobhán Cleary, and, again, commissioned especially by the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet. A part of a ballet currently being written by Cleary, it is based on folktales from Southern China and incorporates folk songs from the Yunnan province.

Also included are two other works previously commissioned for the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet. Take this opportunity to hear Ian Wilson’s Winter’s Edge; undoubtedly one of Wilson’s most popular works, the piece has been performed by a surprising number of quartets since it’s 1992 commission. Deirdre Gibbon’s Merrow Sang was commissioned in 2007 for the 21st birthday celebrations of the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet and remains a staple in the quartet’s repertoire.

The quartet complete the performance with works from prolific Irish composers Raymond Deane, David Flynn and, one of the fathers of 20th Century Irish music, Aloys Fleischmann.Embers is an early popular work by Deane and has been much performed since it’s 1973 premiere, while David Flynn has spent much time exploring a relationship between contemporary music and Irish traditional music; hear the quartet participate in this exploration through The Cranning!

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Ticket Information:

Tickets: €15 (€8 unwaged/student)

Tickets are available from The National Concert Hall

Tel: 01 4170000 or email info@nullnch.ie

With their 30th anniversary looming next year and major live dates to be announced for later this year ‘In Tua Nua’ are releasing this self financed single. Cult lead singer ‘Leslie Dowdall’, singing drummer ‘Paul Byrne’ and legendary bassist/guitarist ‘Jack Dublin’ went into the studio last year and re-recorded ‘All I Wanted’. Enlisting Conn Woolridge on Violin and Derek Cronin on Hammond Organ, the track was recorded and mixed by Conor Brady and produced by the band at Phonic Studios, Dublin.

With their back catalogue of recordings still owned by their previous record labels Island and Virgin, the band wanted to record something that they would own themselves. Penned by Byrne, Dublin and Martin Clancy, ‘All I Wanted’ was In Tua Nua’s most successful single, reaching number 69 in the 1988 UK charts while becoming a radio hit all across the US on college radio stations.

The band toured extensively throughout Europe and the US during the 1980’s promoting their albums “Vaudeville” and “The Long Acre”. One of Ireland’s premier live acts, they shared stages with Bob Dylan (Slane), Fleetwood Mac, and Eurythmics to name but a few while also touring with both U2 and Simple Minds before breaking up in 1989. They reformed for some gigs in 2004 and since then Leslie has toured both as a solo artist and with a band, while Paul and Jack who first played together as rhythm section for Deaf Actor in 1980 have recently been banging out beats for Rocky de Valera and The Gravediggers, The Guilty Party and Shane McGowan and The Shane Gang.

All I Wanted (2012 Version)
Buy from iTunes or get it free from intuanua.com
Available April 20th 2012