Clannad & Moya Brennan News

Source: Clannad Newsblog

Most of you will know of the all-powerful group Norland Wind. This year marks their 15th anniversary! To celebrate, they are out on an amazing tour. Noel and Pádraig are members of Norland Wind, on vocals, guitars, mandolin and various other instruments. They have been described as ‘missionaries of Celtic music with overwhelming reactions and standing ovations at their gigs…’.

To win tickets to Norland Wind at the Tilia Folk Festival in the Netherlands, GO HERE. Best of luck! (:

Did you know?? There is a soccer club in England called ‘Clannad Celtic’. We had big smiles on our faces with this one. For some news on the team themselves, check out this article.

Sephira by the way have just returned from a very successful tour of Britain with well known Traditional Group Clannad. It was their first ever British Tour and it went down very well. They played to packed audiences at famous venues across the country such as Royal Concert Hall Glasgow, St. David’s Hall Cardiff, Royal Liverpool, Brighton Dome and not to be forgotten the famous London Palladium…

From Wicklow People : Thursday March 27 2008

Russborough House have another concert coming up on Saturday April 26 staring at 8 p.m. Well known Group ‘Sephira’ will be top of the bill on the night for what promises to be a most enjoyable and entertaining evening.Colm Henry from Manor Kilbride is one of Sephira’s three members and is well known in the area. He has been a regular performer over the years in the Church of Ou

Russborough House have another concert coming up on Saturday April 26 staring at 8 p.m. Well known Group ‘Sephira’ will be top of the bill on the night for what promises to be a most enjoyable and entertaining evening.

Colm Henry from Manor Kilbride is one of Sephira’s three members and is well known in the area. He has been a regular performer over the years in the Church of Our Lady Blessington. Sephira by the way have just returned from a very successful tour of Britain with well known Traditional Group Clannad. It was their first ever British Tour and it went down very well. They played to packed audiences at famous venues across the country such as Royal Concert Hall Glasgow, St. David’s Hall Cardiff, Royal Liverpool, Brighton Dome and not to be forgotten the famous London Palladium.

Tickets for their upcoming Concert cost €25 and are available from Russborough House tel.(045) (865239). Sephira are in fact making a return visit to the venue as they performed there last year to a packed audience. Early booking is advisable.

Hallo! We’re adding the lyrics to the albums (as you can see in ‘Lore’ and ‘Landmarks’), and are working very closely to some of Ireland’s most well known song collectors to give us the background on the traditional songs. Check out ‘Tráthnóna Beag Aréir’ on ‘Lore’ for an example! :]

In the fans section we’ve added a cool new cinema and we’ve also added biographies for Moya and the Duggan brothers on the Biog page, including restored High Resolution images (we’re low on bandwidth, so please do not download them unless mandatory, we’re working on this, and they’re massive images). You can help us out by providing as much information as possible on Pól and Ciarán, it’d be greatly appreciated and of course credited!

Thanks so much :]

Source: Clannad Newsblog

Photographs of Clannad in London can be viewed here as well as three earlier ‘Máire’ live photographs. The images are in thumbnail view. If you would like prints, we’d be happy to order on your behalf with our account. RexFeatures.

Unfortunately, Clannad have slipped to 36 (-16) in the charts. At least they entered on twenty, which shows us that Clannad still have it all! Fingers crossed for a new album, as well as some new work from Moya Brennan!

Clannad’s latest compilation album ‘Celtic Themes’ entered the British charts at #20. The compilation was released at the beginning of March and has already sold thousands. Fingers crossed that this keeps getting better! ‘Celtic Themes’ is Clannad’s 15th (approx.) compilation album.

In the BBC4 Documentary ‘Folk Hibernia’, exploring Irish traditional music’s history, you can see a small featurette on Clannad and an interview with Moya Brennan. This can be watched on BBC iPlayer. To see a picture from the interview, see the last image in the gallery.

As y’all know, Moya will be on the new Sanctuary album. RTÉ recorded a documentary on Nóirín Ní Riain who was married to Mícheal Ó Súilleabháin. This documentary has lots of info about the album, including a few clips, which you can hear on RTÉ’s website. Just search for Nóirín Uí Riain. If you cannot watch the programme, simply email us at hello@clannad.org.uk and he will mail you (with prior permission from RTÉ), the documentary. Please note that this documentary was broadcast quite a while ago as we previously sent out to our mailing list, and we’d be more than happy to broadcast it for a few days through our website if we receive permission (if you would like us to). Hope you enjoy =)

Win Tickets
You can win tickets to see Moya live in the Netherlands, increasingly the new home of ceol na hÉireann! For more information please click here.

Live Showreel
You can watch a showreel of Moya’s performance in Canary Wharf in London. I really loves the video, which you can watch at Youtube here.

Moya Brennan spilling the beans!
Moya has recently been interviewed with a few lovely ideas, including a duet album. You should really have a look at this video, it is already one of my favorite interviews! ClickClick.

Moya on TV
Moya will appear on RTÉ on St. Patrick’s day, performing two songs. You can watch at 11:25am on RTÉ. If you are not in Ireland, don’t forget, you can listen live at RTÉ’s website – rte.ie

And as we reported earlier…

Moya on Radio
Just a reminder on the story we posted a while back, Moya was on Radio Ulster tonight. You can now listen again to ‘So Hard to Beat’ here.