Clannad & Moya Brennan News

UPDATE 14/JUL/2009: You can now check out the video below of Sinéad on ‘Imeall’. The track name insn’t given, but we’re guessing it’s ‘Someone Else’. Pop over to iTunes to download the album! Lyrics coming soon! Check out Sinéad’s MySpace page and website for more information! . ORIGINAL POST 18/APR/2009: Sinéad Madden of the Moya [...]

Hazel O’Connor will perform a special concert along with Cormac de Barra of the Moya Brennan band and his brother Ruairí de Barra. The concert at the national concert hall will heavily feature traditional songs and is rumoured by O’Connor fans to be running up to a new album (forum search!). O’Connor’s last album featured [...]

Moya Brennan will appear on NBC’s Today Show, which will be broadcast live from County Wicklow. Moya will sing alongside Moya Brennan band harpist and singer Cormac de Barra on the show which will be broadcasting from Powerscourt Country Estate on the 16th (7-11 East Coast Time). MSNBC will also broadcast live from central Dublin [...]

Sinéad Madden, of the Moya Brennan band, has announced that she will launch her début album, ‘Honey Promises’ on 5th May 2009 at 8pm. The event will take place at the The Academy in Abbey Street, Dublin. You can listen to songs from ‘Honey Promises’ and a beautiful version of Summerfly featuring Moya Brennan at [...]

Ashley Davis, who we have posted about almost a year ago, has just released her new album ‘Down By The Sea’, recorded in the home of Moya Brennan. Moya features throughout the album on vocals, as do Cathy Jordan (fun duet) from Dervish and Paddy Moloney from The Chieftains, AND Joanie Madden from Cherish The [...]

UPDATE 03/FEB/2009 @ 7pm: Catch the video here (for viewers in Ireland only). ORIGINAL POST 01/FEB/2009 @ 2:38pm: Moya Brennan will appear on RTÉ chatshow ‘Seoige’. The programme is presented by Galway-Gaeilgeoirí Gráinne and Síle Seoige who have been fans of Clannad since they were very young. Moya will be joined by Cormac and Sinéad [...]

Here are three photographs taken while recording the episode of TG4′s ‘Imeall’ on which Moya Brennan appeared and was interviewed by presenter (and member of the MB band) Cormac deBarra. The interview was recorded in Moya’s home and the song in Moya’s own studio. Bainigí sult! 1 2 3. More info on Moya’s appearance here. [...]

Hey all, just a quick update about the interview’s with Sinéad Madden and Cormac De Barra. The interview will take place in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on November 24th. Don’t have that much information at the moment, because we need to set a right time for the interview, but I got some good questions already!! If [...]