Clannad & Moya Brennan News

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 [...]

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 [...]

As posted earlier, Moya and Cormac where to appear on The Today Show on MSNBC, live, yesterday morning. You can now watch a snippet of the programme on YouTube and on MSNBC’s Today Show website. Moya sings a verse from ‘Down by the Sally Gardens’, which appeared on both of Clannad’s live albums, which can [...]

To celebrate a decade of Irish Charity ‘To Russia with Love’, Gay Byrne will be hosting an event to raise awareness and funds for the charity on February 25th at the National Concert Hall. At the concert will be Moya Brennan, along with Cara O’Sullivan, Nóirín Ní Riain & Amen (Eoin & Mícheál P. Súilleabháin), [...]

You can take a look at the Heart Strings tour dates in our tour page. As you know, we’ve been using Google Maps for almost a year now, but you may experience a few problems with them, nothing major, we just couldn’t find some postcodes for one or two venues! Hope you all had an [...]

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 [...]