John Hogan is a singer, songwriter and traditional Irish musician from Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland. John is a multi instrumentalist, over the years perfecting the tenor banjo, mandolin, and guitar.
When he was about twelve John fell in love with Traditional Irish Music, joined CCE and started entering the Fleadhs. No surprise as he can trace Trad back five generations on his Fathers' side. He won county and Leinster titles from the age of thirteen to nineteen and became All-Ireland Champion in 1981.John also did the UK and USA tours with CCE in 1983.
After that John started playing in Folk Bands and formed The Jarveys and Ború. Ború worked extensively from 1986-1994 both at home and abroad and even still do some select gigs. John also plays with a band called Cruinniú which is an eclectic mix of trad and songs from various sources with a diverse combination of instruments and influences.
John has been playing guitar, singing and writing songs since the age of fifteen and he is now focussed on his song writing and personal instrumental playing. John’s eagerly anticipated debut solo album 'Time Past' is set for release in early 2011 as well as that John is working on an album of Banjo playing which he plans to release later in the year..
Two of Ireland's most loved and best known vocalists collaborate to bring you an evening of music entitled ‘Songs from the Other Side’, inspired by their love and appreciation of some of the greatest songs ever written. It is a soulful fusion of blues, contempory, original and rock‘n’roll with each bringing her own style and experience to this unique pairing.
With an eclectic mix of styles and their relaxed, friendly nature on stage, prepare to be thoroughly enthralled and entertained! Honor and Leslie have assembled a group of great musicians to accompany them on their new musical venture.
This is a unique opportunity to see them perform like you’ve never seen them before. ‘Songs from the Other Side’will be launched in the forthcoming spring of 2011.
Tour Dates:
4th March – Birr Arts Centre, Birr, Co. Offay @ 8pm. €16/€14
5th March – Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda @ 9pm. €16/€14
10th March – Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise @ 8pm. €15/€12
12th March – Wexford Arts Centre @ 8:30pm. €16/€14
18th March – Draoicht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown @ 8pm. €18/€14
19th March – Tinahely Arts Centre @ 8pm. €20/€18
“The Artist, The Producer & Managing Money”
Saturday 5th February 2011 // 11.30am – 6.00pm
@ IMRO Offices, Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2
Subjects covered during this session:
– artist and producer management
– business models and agreements
– artist admin and money management
Panellists include:
Stuart Worthington, MFF UK training officer
UK music Lawyer John Cullen from Amongst Others
Producers Chris O'Brien & Graham Murphy from The Production Suite, Dublin
Liam Murphy, Livewire Business Management
Ken Allen, artist manager (James Vincent McMorrow)
Feb 5 – Artist/Producer Management, Business Models & Agreements, Artist Admin & Money Management
Mar 26 – Live Music, International Touring & Merchandising
May 7 – The Record Business: Update & Agreements (Artist, Distribution, Licensing & Public Performance)
June 25 – Music Publishing & Agreements
Sept 24 – Show Me The Money! (Raising Finance, Alternative sources of Funding & Brand Partnerships)
Nov 26 – Fan Base Development & Management, Artist Endorsements & Brand Partnerships
Please take note of updated memberships and event pricing:
Full yearly MMF membership is now only €50
All 6 events for MMF members is €100 (to be paid on or before 5th February)
1 event €20 for MMF members
1 event €32 for IMRO members (all 6 events for €150)
1 event €70 for non-members
Irish songwriter and IMRO member, Brendan Graham has donated two of his songs, for the CD, FLOOD RELIEF – ARTISTS FOR THE FLOOD APPEAL, released this week by Sony Music, Australia.
Graham’s songs You Raise Me Up, sung by Australian artist, Mark Vincent, and Sometimes A Prayer Will do, sung by new discovery, 13-year old Queenslander, Straalen McCallum will line up with an array of Australian and International artists and songwriters, who have waived all royalties in an effort to help relieve the terrible distress caused by the Australian Floods.
Denis Handlin AM, Chairman and CEO of Sony Music (Aus & NZ), said in a statement “The effect of this tragedy and its terrible toll on life, families, communities and property has touched many people both here and around the globe," he said. "On behalf of Sony Music and the Sony Foundation, our thoughts and prayers are with those affected, and our immense gratitude goes to all the emergency service people and volunteers who have so generously given in this time of need.”
“We have been overwhelmed by the response by both local and international artists wanting to contribute to the cause and our thanks go to all those artists and songwriters for generously donating their tracks royalty free. We also thank Sony DADC Australia for kindly donating the CD manufacturing.”
Among those featured on the 3-CD album are contributions from Aussie artists including Midnight Oil, Jessica Mauboy, Guy Sebastian, Tommy Emmanuel, Lee Kernaghan and Crowded House, together with international artists such as P!nk, Keith Urban, Sting, Bon Jovi, Kings Of Leon, Beyonce, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, John Mayer, Bob Dylan and Jeff Buckley.
In 2009, Sony Music’s Bushfire AID – Artists For the Bushfire Appeal CD sold over 110,000 copies to raise more than $1.7 million for the Salvation Army’s Victorian Bushfires Appeal
FLOOD RELIEF – Artists For The Flood Appeal aims to have similar success with proceeds from the sale of the CD going to the Salvation Army Flood Appeal – through the charitable arm of the Australian Sony Group of Companies, The Sony Foundation.
Of the inclusion of his two songs, the Mayo-based songwriter said ‘’It is a privelige to be asked to help even in the smallest way in a tragedy of such proportions as the Australian people are now suffering. We have all watched the TV footage. It is almost overwhelming to see the scale of devastation caused, and heartbreaking to witness… but the Aussies are a people of great spirit and community. They will rise together through this’’.
Fighting With Wire & Skip Moses
2nd February – The Stiff Kitten, Belfast.
Entry: 9pm – £6
The punk-rock trio make a return to the Stiff Kitten for the first time since 2008, with their own brand of gritty, angular rock continuing to impress. Support from LaFaro frontman Jonny Black.
Acoustra
9th – 14th March – Azerbaijan Charity Trip
16th March – Pat Kenny Show Paddy's Day Hooley RTE Radio 1
17th March – Limerick (Venue TBC)
18th March – Dolans, Limerick
24th March – Chawkes, Adare
26th March – Patrick's, Ennis, Co. Clare
Acoustra are a four-piece trad/folk/rock band from Limerick who have been writing and performing original material for ten years. They have a new EP out on March 11th 2011 – ‘The way it used to be’ – which tells of the current hardship we all face at the moment. The initial impetus for Acoustra came about in 2001 (for the craic) and the four-piece have never looked back since. They have a wide repertoire and a vast variety of songs ranging from original and covers, which they are known to play at gigs to rock the boat somewhat, but their utter passion resides in original song and tune writing of Trad fused with and deep rooted folk rock.
The Saw Doctors
2nd April – The Olympia Theatre, Dublin
After celebrating a No.1 Album: The Further Adventures of…., and a busy year of festivals (V Festival, Oxegen) with sell out shows across America, the UK and Ireland, The Saw Doctors partnered with Smyths Toys to raise much needed funds for the St. Vincent De Paul Society over the Xmas period and raised over €10,000. Having returned from a recent jaunt in the USA, they play at The Olympia on April 2nd.
Stephen Young & The Union
18th February – (Single Launch) The Cobblestone, Dublin,
23rd February – The Zodiac Sessions in Bruxelles,
25th March – (Album Launch) Crawdaddy, Dublin,
27th March – The Spirit Store, Dundalk,
30th March -The Slate, Cork,
31st March – John Daly's, Mullingar,
1st April – The Stables, Mullingar
The first Single to be released on the album ‘Wilderness Machine’ will be ‘Coke & Rum’ on Feb 25th 2011. (Mastered by Aidan Foley). After a year of steadfast gigging in some of the country’s most illustrious intimate venues, Young and The Union begin their nationwide tour on Feb 18th (tour dates above). Anyone expecting to see a singer-songwriter soulfully whispering into a microphone should think again. This will be a fevered, rock n' roll countrified affair!
Eleanor McEvoy
3rd March – 19:30 Theatre Royal- Thursday, Theatre Royal Waterford, Ireland
4th March – 19:30 Airfield- Friday, Airfield Dundrum, Ireland
Eleanor's music has evolved and developed over her career and this album is a confident statement. Her continuing absorption and influence by other forms of music continues to delight and confound any listener who may attempt to pigeon-hole her simply with reference to the winsome ‘Only A Woman’s Heart’ which appeared on the massively popular album “A Woman’s Heart” back in 1992. That was then, this is now! “I’d Rather Go Blonde” has been mixed by Ruadhri Cushnan’ who did the breakthrough Mumford & Sons record of this year and has a wilfully contemporary relevance.
Eleanor will also undertake two headline shows of her own in March where she will be playing tracks from throughout her career but also of course from “I’d Rather Go Blonde”. See www.eleanormcevoy.com for further details.
Up-and-coming indie-pop artist THE DANGER IS aka Dubliner Niamh Farrell is to play a headline show at CRAWDADDY on Saturday 5th March. Farrell's self-titled debut EP has been making waves since its release last year. Support will come from Tony Wright's (ASIWYFA) new project VERSECHORUSVERSE. The Danger is the working title adopted by Dublin based artist Niamh Farrell for her musical endeavours. Niamh has been writing for years and after a two-year period of experimentation has created a 4-track E.P. recorded in Wicklow in 2010 and produced by Ken Mc Hugh. The E.P. confronts a multitude of emotions; from fear to happiness, love and its confusions. It is laced with honesty and humour and features climactic instrumental arrangements. Niamh graduated from N.C.A.D. with a degree in fine art in 2008. Her art and music strive to question our place within the world and within ourselves. An important element of The Danger Is, is the artwork. It consists of an imagined horizon combining the past and the present, the personal and the universal. These micro/macro landscapes and musical experimentation enable The Danger Is to present an animated, hopeful and honest perspective of life and a young musician interrogating the idea of what happens when complacency rules. Some highlights of recent months include performances in Crawdaddy supporting Warpaint, The Olympia supporting The Coronas, and supporting Brit Award winning Ellie Goulding on her Irish tour dates. Niamh will also be featured in the upcoming season of RTE's Other Voices. "Striking, classic indie-pop with alluring ties and bows from Niamh Farrell" ~ Jim Carroll / IRISH TIMES "Farrell's eponymous debut EP contains four confident alt folk ditties, each brimming with emotion and humour (see the delightfully-titled 'Rub Who You Love'), while standout track 'All for Gold' has a sneaky tribal underbelly. Feist fans, form an orderly queue." ~ Celina Murphy- Hot Press, Dec 2010 "A lot of people falling in love with The Danger Is in Whelans right now" ~ Blogger Nialler9 Tweeting during the "Ones To Watch" Festival 15-1-11 "Niamh Danger is one of the most recognizable singers to appear on the scene for several years. Her songs, voice and onstage charm are all instantly likeable and rolled together they make for a very special performance." ~ Robert O'Connor, goldenplec.com, Nov 2010 March 5th, 2011 ~ Crawdaddy, Dublin Tickets: 10 Euro including booking fee from ticketmaster.ie and usual outlets ~ Doors: 7:30pm Introductory Self-Titled Debut EP Lefthand Productions ~ Available in All Good Record Shops and iTunes.
Officially incorporated as a London-based not-for-profit organisation in December 2010, the ISNI International Agency is helping media companies prepare for the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI), a new standard which will streamline the way creative rights holders are referenced on the Internet.
The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI – Draft ISO 27729) is an ISO certified global standard capable of easily identifying the millions of contributors to creative works, including writers, artists, creators, performers, researchers, producers, publishers and more. The ISNI International Agency, which will be responsible for ISNI’s administration and governance, was officially incorporated by its six founding members – CISAC (of which IMRO is a member), IFRRO, IPDA, ProQuest, OCLC and the Conference of European National Librarians (represented by Bibliothèque nationale de France and the British Library) – as a London-based not-for-profit organisation on December 22nd, 2010. The consortium members represent more than 300 rights management societies and 26,000 libraries worldwide. While the Agency creates the ISNI reference database – assigning ISNI identifiers to over 5 million names – and begins building a network of ISNI Registration Agencies, media and content companies are preparing to integrate ISNI into their operations.
“As digital formats come to dominate the entertainment landscape, a global standard that can identify all contributors to all cultural goods – whether they be artists, creators, producers, publishers – is key to an efficient legal marketplace,” said François-Xavier Nuttall, Corporate Director of the ISNI International Agency and Senior Technology Consultant for founding member CISAC.
Responding to this need, ISNI was developed under the auspices of the International Standard Organisation (ISO). The Agency’s six founding members – CISAC, IFRRO, IPDA, ProQuest, OCLC and the Conference of European National Librarians (represented by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the British Library) – reflect the groups that will benefit most from the standard’s integration by media companies, including creators, traditional and digital book/serial publishers, performers, libraries and other research/cataloguing specialists.
Limerick’s Rock & Roll outfit, FOX JAW BOUNTY HUNTERS, have just released their brand new single, ‘THREAD THE NEEDLE’ for radio and download. The single is the public’s first sneak peak to the highly anticipated debut long player.
After months locked away behind closed doors, perfecting every last second for the armada of songs that is their debut album, ‘The Devil In Music’, Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters are preparing themselves to release the long-awaited LP in late March of this year.
You can catch the band live on their THREAD THE NEEDLE TOUR at the following venues:
2nd Feb – Upstairs Whelans, Dublin
4th Feb – The Quad, Cork
5th Feb – Bar Ritz, Castlebar
10th Feb – Upstairs Roisin Dubh, Galway
12th Feb – Baker Place, Limerick
Ireland’s Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan – Violin, Robin Michael – Cello, Mary Dullea – Piano) have performed at London’s Wigmore Hall, Casa da Musica, Porto, Shanghai’s Oriental Arts Centre and on tour throughout Europe, Hong Kong and South Africa. They broadcast regularly for BBC Radio 3 and have released numerous CDs on NMC, Delphian Records, Naxos and MN Records.
Internationally recognised as one of the most exciting piano trios with diverse and arresting programming this US tour, supported by Culture Ireland as part of Imagine Ireland – A year of Irish Arts in America in 2011 features world and US premieres by Irish composers Gerald Barry, Ed Bennett, Linda Buckley, Raymond Deane, Donnacha Dennehy, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Ian Wilson, from the UK, Michael Nyman and American composers Evan Ziporyn, Charles Wuorinen, Laura Kaminsky, Erik Lund and Arlene Sierra.
Particularly lauded for their performances of new music, they have worked with many diverse composers, in particular Michael Nyman, Toshio Hosokawa, Gerald Barry and Johannes Maria Staud. The Fidelio Trio will perform twice at Symphony Space, New York City, as part of their Music of Now Marathon and Salon Series, MIT Boston, SUNY New Paltz and University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Evan Ziporyn Typical Music
Donnacha Dennehy Bulb
Ian Wilson First Last Words*
Raymond Deane March Oubliée *
Gerald Barry Triorchic Blues (piano trio version)*
25th February 2011
Killian Hall,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
77 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge
MA 02139-4307
www.mit.edu
Evan Ziporyn Typical Music
Michael Nyman Time Will Pronounce
Donnacha Dennehy Bulb
Linda Buckley Galura*
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Fidelio Unsung*
27th February 2011
School of Music
University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
Urbana,
Illinois 61801
www.illinois.edu/arts /arts.html
Arlene Sierra Truel 1
Erik Lund Unknown Origins**
Ed Bennett Slow Down*
Raymond Deane March Oubliée
Ian Wilson First Last Words
Evan Ziporyn Typical Music
Paris based pop duo Carosel release their Star EP today via iTunes in Ireland and France.
Catchy and instant, the music of bubbly two piece ‘Carosel’ has a nicely retro charm and infectious feel good vibe to it. Michelle Phelan & Pete McGrane cherish melodies that linger in the mind. The lively rhythms and clear sounds of “Star,” “Something I Need,” “Easy” and “Take Me” are delicate and lighthearted. The glamorous duo believes in the feeling of love and sings in the vein of entertainment.
Now based in Paris – “for inspiration, beauty and artistic vitality of the city” – Michelle & Pete maintain the flame of the romantic pop duet. Receiving critical acclaim further afield seems to be heppening for the duo, as radio stations such as Virgin FM, FIP FM, Alternantes FM, Barousse FM, Couleurs FM, Mega FM, Euradionantes, Frequence Mistral, Radio Alpa, Radio G, Radio Grille Ouverte, Radio La Boucle, Radio Pulsar, Radio R Meribel, Radio Transparence, RCN (Ferarock), Tropique FM and Radio Atlantis have been supporting the new EP nationwide in France. Rolling Stone Magazine will also feature the band as ones to watch for 2011.
Carosel are currently touring and working on finishing their 2nd album (yet to be titled).
Upcoming Gigs:
29/01 Paris 11 Les Disquaires FR
07/02 Paris 11 L’International FR
10/02 Paris Event Speciale – Irish Embassy Paris FR
09/03 Chérisay Le Labo Sonore FR
11/03 Clermont Ferrand Baraka FR
05/05 Paris THEATRE TRAVERSIÈRE FR
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