Clannad & Moya Brennan News

Fiddlers Bid, the band which Fionán de Barra (of the Moya Brennan band) is a member of have got their third album out. It is titled (the very catchy) ‘All Dressed In Yellow’! The first two are amazing, especially the harp playing. Fiddlers’ Bid concentrate a lot on music from the Shetland Islands in Scotland. [...]

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 [...]

Thanks so much to Brian (Spokrtymike), you can now get into the festive mood with a live video from 2000, when Moya Brennan and Ronan Keating performed ‘Fairytale of New York’. Although the studio recording isn’t a big favourite, this live performance is gorgeous, it’ll get you in the Christmas mood! Have a happy Christmas [...]

Moya Brennan has been interviewed by Jonathan Langley of Christianity Magazine on her first full live album and growing up within the Christian faith as a child. For more information, you can read the article here. You can join our newsletter to receive one of many articles to come over the next few weeks including [...]

As there is not much news to report, here is the story behind Alasdair Mac Colla – song and story. I found this really interesting, and never knew that he was also half Irish, his dad was from Antrim! You can check out the information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_Mac_Colla Some information from our old lyrics pages on [...]