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16 Jun 09 @ 6:10 pm by Robbi
CLANNAD & ENYA NOMINATED FOR IMAs!

Clannad with gold discs

Clannad and Enya have both been nominated for Ireland’s Music Awards. Clannad sit in the ‘Best Revival Act’ category, while Enya sits in the best female vocalist group. Place three votes today for Altan, Clannad and Enya on this page! Also in Enya’s category are Cara Dillon, Heidi Talbot, Pauline Scanlon and other amazing singers, so the competition will be very tough! Clannad go up against Planxty and Moving Hearts in their category, so every vote counts! Get the glitter and sparkle ball rolling again for Clannad who began recording a new unplugged album this year! VOTE NOW!

13 Jun 09 @ 12:44 pm by Robbi
Hazel O’Connor: Up Close and Personal

Hazel & Cormac

Hazel O’Connor will perform a special concert along with Cormac de Barra of the Moya Brennan band and his brother Ruairí de Barra. The concert at the national concert hall will heavily feature traditional songs and is rumoured by O’Connor fans to be running up to a new album (forum search!). O’Connor’s last album featured Cormac and Moya Brennan, as well as photography from Moya’s husband, Tim Jarvis. More information on the performance is available at the National Concert Hall’s official website. Hazel is also touring with other acts and friends from the ‘Beyond The Breaking Glass’ era, including Boy George, Bananarama, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, ABC, Cutting Crew and Visage.

13 Jun 09 @ 12:14 pm by Robbi
T With The Maggies album!!

T & the Maggies

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh has announced that she is heading into the recording studio with Moya Brennan, Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, known as ‘T With the Maggies’, to record a few tracks in a few days. We’ll spill all over the coming weeks and months. Sign up to the mailing list for more. Mairéad has just finished recording a new Altan album with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and her very first solo project. Moya is also recording AND Maighréad is recording her first album in… a very long time. Keep an eye out for our exciting Maggies news! xD

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12 Jun 09 @ 9:09 pm by Methica
Winning Things With Interesting Names

Aisling Jarvis (aka Green Noise)

Good news of Green Noise! It seems that Aisling Jarvis is busy makiing some wonderful music, and it seems the album is coming along well. A new song has recently been uploaded. The song is called “Winning Things With Interesting Names”. This is the sixth song uploaded to the Green Noise MySpace page. Other songs are “It’s All About Experiments, Me”, “Move (feat. James O’Neill)”, “Consider The Word Panic”, “Shutters Pride” and “We Won’t Come Down”. You can listen to the songs here.

Enjoy! (Click here for more on Aisling)

12 Jun 09 @ 1:01 pm by Robbi
Norland Wind to visit Ireland

Pádraig & Kirsten

Fresh and rejuvenated from a lengthy set of tours, their last together in April, the full Norland Wind group will visit Ireland for two concerts. One in Ireland and one in Britain, the concerts are not to be missed! Noel & Pádraig Duggan from Clannad are members of the band, along with Máire Breatnach, whose discography is one of the biggest in Ireland! To buy tickets for their September 19th concert in Southport, click here. For their Irish concert one of Ireland’s most famous venues, check out Whelan’s website. September sales and listings for Whelan’s coming over the next fortnight.

12 Jun 09 @ 12:25 pm by Robbi
New pictures of Moya Brennan’s Rwanda visit

Moya Brennan with Rwandan children

There are new photos available to check out of Moya’s visit to Rwanda to raise awareness of the problems that people living in poverty face on a daily basis. Moya Brennan is Goodwill Ambassador for the charity Christian Blind Mission which organised the trip in 2004. You can check out the pictures on journalist Deirdre Mulrooney’s Flickr page. For more information on Moya’s work and visits to impoverished countries and her regular charitable activities, check out the Christian Blind Mission Ireland website where you can make a small donation or just admire their hard work. You can also watch videos from Ireland AM for free through iTunes.

25 May 09 @ 5:30 pm by Robbi
Sinéad Madden’s ‘Honey Promises’ out now!

Sinéad Madden - Honey Promises

Sinéad Madden’s new album, ‘Honey Promises’ is NOW available to download! The album is just gorgeous. Information on Sinéad’s début album is available on her official website (coming soon) and on her MySpace page. Sinéad’s album features songs written with Fionán de Barra, Madden’s own arrangments and gorgeous vocals with accompaniment from Moya Brennan and other friends. To buy the gorgeous new album on iTunes, click here! For the tracklist, check out our Sinéad archives!

25 May 09 @ 5:06 pm by Robbi
Clannad on new album!! (plus new track)

Clannad in 1977

Clannad appear on the new collection, including one unreleased track from the early 1980’s (?), of Germany’s Celtic Folk Music Festival. You can hear Clannad, Moya and Enya on many other albums from the festival, but the new compilation, silently released in March includes ‘Éirigh ’s Cuir Ort do Chuid Éadaigh’, ‘Teidhir Abhaile Riú’ and the previously unreleased ‘Spanish Lady’, a collaborative performance between Clannad and The Buskers!! The first six tracks are from Clannad. You can sample the new compilation here, or click here, here and here for all of Clannad’s previously released festival performances from other years, which including contributions from both Moya and Enya.

For some live tracks, see the list below. Northern Skyline doesn’t make a single penny from these links, they’re all direct to iTunes for lovely wee samples! [=

1. An Gabhar Bán (also on Clannad’s “Clannad 2″ album)
2. Mrs. McDermott (also on Clannad’s “Clannad” album)
3. Rince Philib a’ Cheoil (also on Clannad’s “Clannad 2″ album)
4. Down By The Sally Gardens (also on Clannad’s “In Concert” album)
5. Níl Sé ‘na Lá (also on Clannad’s “In Concert” album)
6. Eleanor Plunkett (also on Clannad’s “Clannad 2″ album)
7. ‘dTigeas a’ Damhsa (also on Clannad’s “Dúlamán” album)
8. Éirigh ’s Cuir Ort do Chuid Éadaigh (also on Clannad’s “Dúlamán” album)
9. Teidhir Abhaile Riú (also on Clannad’s “Clannad 2″ album)
10. Mhorag ’s na Horo Gheallaidh (also on Clannad’s “Fuaim” album)*
11. Dúlamán (also on Clannad’s “Dúlamán” album)*

There could be a few more floating about!

24 May 09 @ 3:23 pm by Robbi
Moya Brennan on new Maura O’Connell album! (updated)

Maura O'Connell sings 'Naked With Friends'

UPDATE 24 MAY 2009, 3:23PM: It’s hard to find samples of the album, so here are some we made earlier [= More information on who appears on the tracks coming the minute the album arrives.

o1. The Bright Blue Rose – with Kate Rusby
o2. Mo Sheamuseen – with Tim O’Brien??
o3. Arrow – with Dolly Parton
o4. Some People’s Lives – with Alison Krauss??
o5. The Blacksmith – ???
o6. Ae Fond Kiss
o7. Shipbuilding – with various
o8. Anach Cuain
o9. I Know My Love – with Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh & Moya Brennan
1o. Weakness in Me
11. This Beggar’s Heart
12. Maidin i mBearra
13. Hay Una Mujer Desapercida

Check them out in this little folder.

ORIGINAL POST MAY 5TH 2009, 3:23PM. Moya Brennan is one in a string of artists to record on Maura O’Connell’s new acapella album. The album is simply made up of voices, without instruments. Moya Brennan (of Clannad), Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (of Altan), Mary Black, Dolly Parton and Paul Brady will all perform on the album, titled ‘Naked With Friends’. Each of these artists have recorded with one another or performed together at some point, which makes it an about-time album, with some awesome tracks… all to be revealed on June 16, and all from one ALL of Ireland’s greatest singers…!!! Moya and Cherish The Ladies’ flautist Joanie Madden have also recorded on Ashley Davis‘ new album, tiny world!!

21 May 09 @ 10:12 am by Methica
Dolores O’Riordan – No Baggage

No Baggage cover

This will be the tracklisting:

1. Switch Off the Moment
2. Skeleton
3. It’s You
4. The Journey
5. Stupid
6. Be Careful
7. Apple of My Eye (new version)
8. Throw Your Arms Around Me
9. Fly Through
10. Lunatic
11. Tranquilizer

The song Apple Of My Eye will be a new version of the same song on her album “Are You Listening?” The first single to be released from this album will be “The Journey”. According to Dolores’ website, The Journey will hit radio in July!
The videoclip for The Journey has already been made and released, you can watch it here

Dolores O’Riordan’s website
Dolores O’Riordan’s MySpace
Official YouTube account

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