Clannad & Moya Brennan News

Here is the cover for Enya’s new ‘The Very Best of Enya’ compilation, the first since ‘Paint The Sky With Stars‘. The album’s cover was made available on Enya’s official website at midnight. To download the cover head over there or click on the picture to the left, it’s pretty big for any fansite owners [...]

A new design should be up, email us over at the contact page with anything you’d like to see on the website! Niamh, Ezra, Killiney and I are busy with work/college etc., so best to email! The design will be nice and shiny and bright and simple, promise!
Ooooh, and it will have lots [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There’s a cool article in The Times about the surge in name changes in Ireland; mostly entertainers and stuff. Tim Jarvis, Moya Brennan’s husband, freelance photographer and MB manager explained the reason behind Moya’s official change from Máire to Moya.
Times Online

Deirdre Brennan, a core artists in Donegal’s An Cosán Glas (The Green Path) and the educational Saothar Ealaíon (Artworks) has made some gorgeous sculptures which were launched in 2009. Deirdre, the sister of Moya Brennan, Enya and regular singer on Clannad’s tours, has been one of Donegal’s best known artists since the founding of the [...]