Clannad & Moya Brennan News

Sinéad Madden, of the Moya Brennan band and part of the Clannad background band will soon be releasing her début album ‘Honey Promises’. Click on the image to view the shot that could be used on the album cover. The full album cover is not yet available, but join the mailing list to get it [...]

Update 23/FEB/2009 @ 4pm: The song was recorded live at a Moya Brennan concert in Amersfoort in November 2008! You can watch Sinéad singing it live on YouTube! Original Post 09/FEB/2009 @ 9:54pm: Moya Brennan band member Sinéad Madden has added a live track to her MySpace page. The song, ‘Summerfly’ which was a hit [...]

I’ve just read that Sinéad Madden’s gig with Daithí Rua (both of the Moya Brennan band) at the Tilia Festival is to promote her début album, entitled ‘Honey Promises‘! You can listen to songs from the upcoming album over at Sinéad’s MySpace page. For more information, check out the last few posts on Sinéad, Daithí [...]

Click to enlarge Thanks to the uploader to adding this HILARIOUS video from ‘T With the Maggies’ (Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Moya Brennan, Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh). There was some humour at the concert – including mention of a few magic mushrooms and… well… nuts: click here. The song is ‘Caidé Sin Don [...]

Fiddlers’ Bid, an amazing, energetic band from Shetland (and Ireland, of course), have posted their tour diary from Japan with lots of cool little photos. Fionán is a member of the band as well as the Moya Brennan band. You can also keep up to date with the progress of their upcoming album over at [...]

UPDATE FEB/10/2009 @ 8:00pm: All dates/venues for the Tilia Festival are in the tour page. There is an amazing line-up so if you are in the Netherlands make sure not to miss out on this festival! Contact Willem on the address below for information. ORIGINAL FEB/10/2009 @ 6:39pm: Sinéad Madden and Daithí Rua (both members [...]

A big warm welcome to Daithí Rua (red David) to the Moya Brennan band! Daithí’s very first tour with Moya Brennan will be the UK Heart Strings tour. Daithí is a singer, guitarist, songwriter and a solo artist. Daithí’s début album, ‘Better The Devil You Know’ was released in 2006. He’ll definitely add a lot [...]

During ‘T With the Maggies’, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Altan), Moya Brennan (then Máire Brennan – Clannad) and Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill (Skara Brae) talked about performing together before without the T (Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill). The concert was for Dónal Lunny. On YouTube you can watch the Maggies perform ‘An Mhaighdeán Mhara’ which all three have recorded [...]

Cormac de Barra will perform in Lisburn City (close to my house!) on Friday 13th February 2009. He will perform alongside Karin Leitner with whom he recorded the album ‘Music of Great Irish Houses’. Cormac, who is a member of the Moya Brennan and Clannad bands and hosts ‘Imeall’ on TG4 will perform a concert [...]

UPDATE 02/FEB/2009 1pm: You can see pictures from the concert online thanks to others who were there on Moya’s Official forum. More pictures will be posted to head over and join! You can find some links here and here. Ná coimhéad ró-fhada! UPDATE 02/FEB/2009 11am: Moya, Maighréad, Tríona & Mairéad were interviewed before the concert [...]