Clannad & Moya Brennan News

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. [...]

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 [...]

Click to enlarge Thanks to the uploader to adding this HILARIOUS video from ‘T With the Maggies’ (Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Moya Brennan, Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh). There was some humour at the concert – including mention of a few magic mushrooms and… well… nuts: click here. The song is ‘Caidé Sin Don [...]

During ‘T With the Maggies’, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Altan), Moya Brennan (then Máire Brennan – Clannad) and Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill (Skara Brae) talked about performing together before without the T (Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill). The concert was for Dónal Lunny. On YouTube you can watch the Maggies perform ‘An Mhaighdeán Mhara’ which all three have recorded [...]

UPDATE 02/FEB/2009 1pm: You can see pictures from the concert online thanks to others who were there on Moya’s Official forum. More pictures will be posted to head over and join! You can find some links here and here. Ná coimhéad ró-fhada! UPDATE 02/FEB/2009 11am: Moya, Maighréad, Tríona & Mairéad were interviewed before the concert [...]

Moya Brennan, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh attended the opening of Temple Bar TradFest 2009 (previously known as Temple Bar Trad). The festival’s main concert is ‘T With the Maggies’ featuring the four. They are known as the most influential vocalists in Irish music of the 20th/21st century and will [...]

Okay, so she’s not Clannad, Moya or Enya, but Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Altan’s singer) is just as inspirational, just as friendly and just as influencial in Irish music so I thought I’d post a blog about her upcoming limited edition solo album, entitled ‘Imeall’ (Gaeilge for ‘Edge’ or ‘Threshold’). It is a very personal album [...]

Now there are a few big families and names in Donegal that we all know of musically. Thanks to Brian (aka SportyMike), you can have a look at this and tell us if you recognise anyone. There are a few Bren’s and Moon’s there! http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7RfyvhfpA&feature=related

You can watch a video from Moya Brennan’s Irish Christmas tour here, put together by a Moya fan. You can also watch Moya Brennan sing with her good friend, and amazing Gaelic singer Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill. They sang ‘Éirigh Suas a Stóirín’ on the Late Late Show in Dublin a few years ago (10??), which [...]

As we posted a while back, Moya Brennan, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Altan), Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill will be the main act at 2009′s Templebar TradFest. TempleBar Trad have just released a press release letting us know that the four Donegal singers will be performing a children’s concert at The Ark Children’s Theatre [...]