Singer-songwriter Jimi Cullen is to donate the proceeds of his next single ‘Keep Your Head Up Now My Friend’ to Headstrong, the non-profit organisation supporting young peoples mental health in Ireland. The track ‘Keep Your Head Up Now My Friend’ is taken from Cullen’s third album Life, and its release on September 2, 2015 will be proceeded on August 26 with a specially made video created by Rachel Gregan.
i am niamh has just announced the release of her second single, Hang On from her debut album Wonderland. Hang on is a glimpse of i am niamh’s more electronic side to her style of music. Turn it up loud and enjoy.
“I Am Niamh’s latest single ‘Hang On’ is an electronically-driven composition that features piano and vocal echoes that build as the track progresses.” Nialler9
Singer/songwriters Helena Byrne & Enda Reilly will join forces, performing a very special concert in Whelan’s Upstairs, Wexford Street, Dublin 2 at 9pm on Sunday 23rd August 2015.
ABOUT HELENA:
From Kilkenny, now based in Dublin, HELENA has been performing since she was knee high to a guitar. As a singer/songwriter Helena has performed extensively throughout Europe and the USA. She has been a support act for James Taylor, Katie Melua and Bob Geldof at the Source Festival, Kilkenny and was also a third place winner in the 2fm Young Songwriter’s Contest with her song ‘Happenin’. She has performed as a session vocalist for both Rónán and Colm Ó Snodaigh, founding members of Irish group, Kila and most recently collaborated with Rónán, who features on her debut album ‘CEOL’. Following the release of ‘Ceol’, Helena is currently writing new material for her next album, which she is set to begin recording in 2016.
www.HelenaByrne.com
ABOUT ENDA:
Enda Reilly is a singer, guitarist and songwriter from Dublin whose projects include New Songs In Irish, his Climate Change Songs Workshops, Arise and Go! a collaboration with poet Stephen James Smith. He has also composed music for and performed in a poetic play Everlasting Voices with Guthanna Binne Síoraí, which has taken them to India and Japan. Enda is a former winner of the 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.
www.EndaReilly.com
Tickets: €12/€10 concession available at http://helenabyrne.com/tickets
Singer/songwriter George Hutton who has graced the stage with the likes of Hozier and Glen Hansard has officially set out on creating a solo career of his own. When George performed his first original song “Waiting” for BBC Music Day people were wondering why they couldn’t download it!
Well that’s because he hadn’t even recorded it yet, but the wait is over and his song is now available to download on iTunes.
World première of James Joyce settings
Thursday 10 September 2015, 8pm
National Concert Hall
Featuring Kurt Elling, Jack Lukeman, Cara O’Sullivan,
Kristina Train, Andrew Strong & Keith Harkin
Brian Byrne conductor
One of our top musical ambassadors and most internationally successful film composers is coming home to Ireland and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for a very special evening inspired by James Joyce. Golden Globe nominee and RTÉ CO Artist in Residence Brian Byrne has set poems from Joyce’s Chamber Music collection which will be brought to life on Thursday 10 September at the National Concert Hall. A testament to the excitement around this project is the calibre of the artists getting involved: Grammy winner Kurt Elling, Jack Lukeman, Cara O’Sullivan, Andrew Strong, Kristina Train and Keith Harkin of Celtic Thunder.
The Chamber Music Project is very close to Byrne’s heart and one he has been working on for many years. International jazz legend Kurt Elling included one of the songs on his latest album, Passion World, a collection of songs from around the world that Elling calls his ‘charmers’. According to the Irish Times review: ‘It all ends quietly with Irish composer Brian Byrne’s tender setting of a James Joyce lyric, Where Love Is. Hard not to be charmed.’ Elling along with other artists in the September concert will record an album of the Chamber Music songs with the RTÉ CO while in Dublin.
Navan-born Byrne, based in Los Angeles since 2003, is one of Ireland’s most successful musical ambassadors, as a composer, conductor, songwriter, arranger and pianist. His currency in Hollywood can be gauged by the fact that he is fresh from working on the Dustin Hoffman movie Boychoir, where he wrote and produced a song for Josh Groban and wrote the score, and Katherine Heigl’s new lesbian romcom Jenny’s Wedding, for which he wrote a soundtrack full of new songs for Kristina Train. He has also just scored an HBO movie for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Greenlight project and is about to score Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture.
Recognition includes a Golden Globe nomination and two World Soundtrack Awards for Albert Nobbs, recorded by the RTÉ CO, and IFTAs for Zonad and Albert Nobbs. His score to The Good Doctor with Orlando Bloom was praised by The Hollywood Reporter and Variety for its subtlety and romanticism. Byrne conducted Barbra Streisand when she recorded If It’s Meant to Be, a song he co-wrote with songwriting legends Alan and Marilyn Bergman. In another significant breakthrough, Byrne’s first classical album Tales from the Walled City, recorded with the RTÉ CO and guests including soprano Danielle de Niese and violinist Nicola Benedetti, was released on Decca, the world’s most prestigious classical label.
Byrne has also collaborated with Bono, Katy Perry, Lisa Stansfield, Van Morrison, The Corrs, Vince Gill and Gladys Knight, to name a few. He has toured with Diane Warren, produced and arranged strings for Pink in The X Factor, arranged a song for Sex and the City 2 and played piano on Liza Minnelli’s cover of Beyoncé’s Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It). Byrne composed the music to Heartbeat of Home, the new show by the producers of Riverdance, which like Riverdance was recorded by the RTÉ CO.
Tickets: €15‒€39.50 (conc. €13.50‒€35.55)
Booking: 01 417 0000, www.nch.ie or www.rte.ie/co No booking fees apply. 10% discount for groups of 10 or more.
For their
contribution to the soundtrack of the production ‘Ireland’s Wild River’ Kíla and Rónán Ó’Snodaigh have received a nomination for the for the 36th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards under the category ‘Outstanding Music and Sound’.
The production, known better as ‘The Secret Life of The Shannon‘ here in Ireland and ‘Ireland’s Wild River: The Mighty Shannon‘ in the UK shows the Shannon as it wends its way across the country through all four seasons, documenting the wildlife that describe the river as home. To date the production has been broadcast through RTÉ, BBC in the UK and PBS in the US.
The Emmys will take place in New York in September.
Should you wish to watch Kíla live they’re playing a kids show at The Model Sligo on August 15th and are also playing Whelans on August 21st.
You can follow Kíla on Facebook and their website.
If you are interested in listening to some of the soundtrack, Kila have made it available to stream on their Bandcamp page
Get Up Get Out is the brand new single release by Dublin Singer Songwriter, Celine Carroll. Written on the ukulele, this song has become a ‘Poptastic’ burst of much needed sunshine and is receiving more than a generous amount of airplay both here in Ireland and in the UK.
To accompany the new single, Celine has also released a colourful, fun upbeat video, shot in Dublin along with some global video insert contributions from friends abroad. This song can travel.
YANGAROO Inc., a leading secure digital media management company, has announced a multi-year agreement with Ireland’s music writers association, IASCA to provide secure delivery of music from record labels and independent music artists to broadcasters, music reviewers and other destinations in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Yangaroo’s Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) has been successfully delivering music securely and electronically to radio broadcasters and other destinations in North America and other territories for over a decade.
The DMDS service will be officially launched in Q4 of 2015 in Ireland, and the introduction of this world class technology solves a number of issues for artists, labels, as well as broadcasters and other media outlets. For the former, it delivers the highest quality, watermarked, broadcast ready files, instantly, securely, inexpensively, and directly to the decision makers, in a format in which they prefer to receive it. For media, DMDS is for exclusive use to pre-approved recipients, and these releases are easily accessible in one library via computer or mobile device.
“The Canadian Music Industry led the world in the move to digital delivery of music to broadcasters beginning in 2003 virtually all music that is heard on radio in Canada is delivered via DMDS.” Said Cliff Hunt YANGAROO Vice Chairman and COO. “We have, of course expanded into the U.S. and other territories since then, and are excited to have Ireland and IASCA leading the way in Europe.”
Sinead Troy, General Manager of IASCA and DMDS Ireland says “It’s an exciting time for us, Irish radio have been hugely supportive of the plan for DMDS, and are ready to begin testing the platform next month”.
Labels, Artists and Media who would like more information, please register at www.DMDSIreland.com
‘Patterns’ is the debut solo album by songwriter Daniel Anderson, aka simply Anderson. The record features 12 immaculately crafted, distinctively arranged songs that originated from a complete DIY approach to music making.
Anderson’s musical apprenticeship ended in 2010 with the disintegration of tempestuous Dublin outfit The Rags. With no band-mates, no studio space and no musical resources to speak of he could hear the advice of school guidance counselors still ringing in his ears: “You’ll always have a trade”. Yet rather than giving up on music to return to the manual trades, Daniel decided to lean on his experience working on building sites as an apprentice prior to his career in music in order to realise his musical aspirations. Over the course of 18 months Daniel not only built a recording studio from scratch but also followed the self-taught philosophy for the creation of the music; writing, arranging, performing and mixing a collection of songs to the impeccably high standard of his all-time favourite records.
The album’s catalyst single ‘History’ was inspired by the re-discovery of an old box of 1980’s VHS home videos which feature in the song’s stunning video and the album artwork.
‘Patterns’ is available to pre-order on a limited edition Vinyl + CD package at www.andersonsongs.com now. The album is released in physical format nationwide and in digital format on all major download and streaming platforms worldwide from 18th September 2015.
Irish folk and blues troubadour, Marc O’Reilly, has just been signed on a worldwide publishing and neighbouring rights deal with Fintage Music International. The Netherlands-based publishing company represent an extensive list of international artists and Grammy Award winners including Jason Mraz, Tori Amos and Jack Savoretti.
Marc O’Reilly has self released two albums to date, ‘Human Herdings’ and ‘My Friend Marx’ and has toured extensively over the past few years. He will now be jointly managed between JawdropperManagement in Ireland and Red Light Management in the US, who also look after artists like Alabama Shakes, Dave Matthews Band and Kaiser Chiefs.
For details on Marc’s upcoming tour dates, check out his website at www.marcoreillymusic.com or follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
