Kaleidoscope Night are launching their seventh year with a Season Launch Gala tonight at 8pm in the Unitarian Church. The concert will feature New Dublin Voices, Francesco Turrisi and the Taquin Experiments, John Adams’ Shaker Loops and Mozarts Gran Partita for 13 winds, conducted by Fergus Sheil.
The popular Singer/Songwriter night will take a weekly residency in Galway, Mayo, Donegal, Dublin & Derry this Sept – Dec 11th 2015 (Venues TBC)
An eclectic mix of genres Country, Pop, Rock, R&B, Soul, Jazz to Hip Hop & Metal are all welcome.
Applications for original showcase nights please send a video link of a live performance & brief biog to westwaverecordings@nullgmail.com
Entries are now open for the annual IMRO Christie Hennessy Song Competition 2015 which takes place in memory of one of Tralee’s most famous sons. Songwriters are invited to submit a an audio link to their entry by email to membership@nullimro.ie before the deadline of Friday 25th September (NOTE: Please do not email audio file attachments).
TechXplore 2015 – 3rd Sept – Belfast – is set to be the biggest and best yet. Now in its third year, the event has established itself as the city’s largest technology expo and this year it is hosting more international speakers and organisations than ever.
The prolific Irish singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Paul Brady will be awarded the National Concert Hall Lifetime Achievement Award for 2015 in recognition of his career’s work. The award will be presented at gala evening of conversation and music with Paul and guests from across his remarkable life in music.
Following on from the success of the ‘Strung Series’ and in continuation of our 2015 programme, ICC are delighted to present ‘long sole sound w/ Léonie Bluett’.
The concert will premiere 7 new works composed especially for clarinetist Leonie Bluett by ICC members, first workshopped in June 2015.
The programme features a diverse range of styles in a mixture of acoustic and electronic material by composers Elis Czerniak, Hugh Martin Boyle, Daniel Reid, Barry O’Halpin, Killian O’Kelly, Kevin Free & Teodor Iuliu Radu.
Dublin’s underground scene reaches the surface with both BLUESUN and SAINTS BOULEVARD co-headlining the Double Whammy Record Release Party on Saturday, 26th of September at The Mercantile. Doors open 7.30pm.
Having recently released their first new studio album in seven years ‘The Sweet Pretty Things (Are In Bed Now, Of Course…) The Pretty Things return with as much gusto as they had when they started performing fifty-two years ago. The Pretty Things are Phil May (vocals) Dick Taylor (lead guitar, vocals), Frank Holland (lead guitar, mellotron, vocals), George Woosey (bass guitar, vocals, rhythm guitar), and Jack Greenwood (drums, percussion, vocals).
The Liam Merriman song ‘Dead Man’s Trail’ kicks off the new album The Birds Never Cease by Merriman and Eoin O’Meachair set for release on-line and on CD during September.
As Eoin O’Meachair, who plays mandolin and whistle on the album, explains, “We’ve opted for ‘Dead Man’s Trail’ as the lead track for The Birds Never Cease because it has an upbeat radio-friendly feel and reflects the stimulating blend of Irish folk and American roots we achieved on the album. Recording it in Nashville gave ‘Dead Man’s Trail’ the cross-cultural musical blend we were looking for”.
Irish alternative quartet Codes, will release their second studio album – AALTARS -on September 18th – their latest body of work since 2009’s Choice Music Prize nominated debut ‘Trees Dream In Algebra’.
To celebrate the release of AALTARS, the band will be performing live at their official launch party at Whelans, Dublin, on the 19th of September. Tickets are €10 (incl. booking fee) via Wavtickets.ie.
