Clannad & Moya Brennan News

Moya’s main website has posted a new date for an April tour in The Netherlands and Belgium! The tour, from April 8 to April 17 will bring Moya and band to perform in both countries. The live section doesn’t have any news or dates and venues ready, but we’ll keep you posted!

Tríona, Maighread, Mairéad and Moya, also known as T with the Maggies performed on The Late Late Show on Friday the 5th. Together they performed the song Wedding Dress, taken from the album that has been released October 29.

You can watch T With The Maggies here, just skip a bit to about 1h:07m.

For more information about T With The Maggies, please visit their website and of course, ours.

Moya Brennan is to feature on ‘Re-Joyce (In The Bleak Midwinter)’, the new song from The Hazel O’Connor Collective. Written by Hazel O’Connor, the collective also features (the amazing) Neville Staple, Toyah Wilcox, Carol Decker, Pauline Black, Ranking Roger, Vince Hill, Kid Creole, Bob Brolly, The Subterraneans and others and is produced by Grammy Award winning producer Roger Lomas.

The song’s proceeds will benefit Coventry Myton Hospice who are currently caring for Hazel’s mother Joyce. The singers will perform the song, among others, at a live concert on December 6 and will be filmed for television (unsure if Moya will be there), but it’s an amazing cause. For more information, see the Coventry Telegraph or The Subterraneans website.

Moya and Hazel, who are good friends have performed together in the past, and in the past few years recorded the ‘Hidden’ single together, from Hazel’s album ‘Hidden Heart’.

Enya has written a recollection of her calling to music as a career in Irish Roots Magazine. The first article of its type is really exciting; Enya talks about picking up her father Leo’s old Slieve Foy instruments, how her family (Clannad etc.) presuaded her that music was to be her life and gives us a teeny glimpse at her family and the family pets. The magazine describes the article: ‘Enya Recalls A Special Day That Would Change Her Life Forever ‘! (: You can see Enya’s article by clicking here. x

Moya Brennan’s second concert last year in Russia was recorded and is now available online! An interview is also available for streaming. The tracklist for the concert it below (: Click here to watch! Joining Moya on vocals was Shannon Lambert-Ryan of Runa, and husband to Fionán de Barra and one of Ireland’s foremost harpists, Anne Marie O’Farrell. Moya was also joined by Ian Parker on keyboards and MB Band members Fionán de Barra, Yoshi Izumi, Paul Byrne and Éamonn Galldubh. I have never, at any concert seen such a welcoming crowd – all those flowers!

Moya will perform again this year with Melnitsa (who she performed with at her first concert of the filmed tip) on November 4th 2010 at Moscow Arena. Tickets are on sale now!

Setlist
01. Caisleán Óir / 02. Tapestry / 03. Down By The Sally Gardens / 04. ‘Mhorag ‘s na Horo Gheallaidh / 05. Alasdair Mac Colla / 06. Tunes (Eleanor Plunkett, Hobknobs – about the biscuit!) / 07. In A Lifetime / 08. ‘Mháire Bhruineall / 09. Caidé Sin Don Té Sin (Nach mBaineann Sin Do) / 10. Tunes (Mrs. McDermott, The Temple In The Valley – Éamonn Galldubh solo!) / 11. Dúlaman – with new verses from non-Clannad versions / 12. Theme From Harry’s Game / 13. I Will Find You / 14. Against The Wind.

Thanks to MoyaBrennan.ru for this!

T with the Maggies (Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Moya Brennan) will perform on November 19th 2010 along with Irish traditional group Dordán. Tickets will be available shortly. This will also be T with the Maggies only date in Galway this year, and it’s for a hugely important cause. With Ireland and much of the world in economic turmoil, projects like Galway Rape Crisis Centre are in need of the public’s generosity more than ever. The concert will take place in St. Nicholas’ Church, Ireland’s biggest medieval parish church. This will be a really special night! Ticket info coming soon!

Upcoming US film ‘Now Here’ features the gorgeous vocals of the one and only Moya Brennan. It premiered in Dublin on October 10th. The feature track ‘Nowhere To Now Here’ was written by Moya and Fionán de Barra. Following the lives of different people whose lives are on the brink of change, Now Here stars Michael Madsen, Keith David, Mickey Rooney and a host of other great Irish and American actors. You can watch the video on YouTube, or head over to the film website (where the Theme From Now Here plays in the background) for more information!

Gael Linn have remastered and released ‘Clannad 2 & Dúlaman’ as a single box set. Now, Gael Linn have re-released these quite a few times, but the sound quality is really, really good! The album artwork comes with 24 pictures that I’ve never seen before of Clannad, along with individual band member pictures like those kind of film strips you get in a photobooth! It’ll excite any of us who haven’t seen a new Clannad photocall picture in years! It also contains the bonus track, ‘An Bealach Seo ‘tá Romham’. The down side is that for people who don’t speak Gaelic, there are no translations to the lyrics in the booklet itself. It does contain backgrounds to the tracks and again, those photos! xD You can get it direct from Gael Linn .

If you live in Ireland, each copy of the Irish Mail on Sunday will be giving away a copy of Clannad’s 1990 compilation album, ‘The Collection’. I hope this promo is leading up to something, but we’ll wait and see! I’m so excited that over 49,000 people will get a copy! This album contains Clannad hits pre-Anam. Here’s the tracklisting:

1. Theme From Harry’s Game / 2. Closer to Your Heart / 3. Lady Marian / 4. Newgrange / 5. Mhórag ‘S Na Horo Gheallaidh / 6. Níl Sé Ina Lá (Níl Sé’n Lá) / 7. Caisleán Óir / 8. In A Lifetime / 9. Now Is Here / 10. Na Buachaillí Álainn / 11. Down by the Sally Gardens / 12. Dúlamán / 13. Robin (The Hooded Man)

T with the Maggies, the Irish vocal powerhouse are to release their debut album! The band, made up of Moya Brennan, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill will launch their album in Dublin on October 29th 2010. Made up of traditional Irish songs in Gaelic and English, the album also features pieces newly written by the band while at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Co. Monaghan, Ireland. A full tracklist, credits and three near-full songs can be heard on their official website.

If you’re around Donegal on November 6th, the Donegal launch will be in Leo’s Tavern, and will no doubt be a really great night!

The Donegal band are also on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and Last.fm!

Oh, if you have Facebook you can also leave comments on the news articles on their website!