Clannad & Moya Brennan News

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 [...]

We’re delighted to be able to share with you a medium sized version of the ‘Honey Promises’ album cover. ‘Honey Promises’ is the début album from Sinéad Madden, a member of the Moya Brennan band and an amazing Irish singer and fiddle player. To view a larger version, click on the thumbnail, then click for [...]

Sinéad Madden, fiddler and singer from the Moya Brennan band, is soon to launch her new website. The holding page looks so cool, and you can check out a thumbnail of the finished album cover. The album, ‘Honey Promises’, which is due for launching in May is Sinéad’s début. You can listen to samples of [...]

Update 23/FEB/2009 @ 4pm: The song was recorded live at a Moya Brennan concert in Amersfoort in November 2008! You can watch Sinéad singing it live on YouTube! Original Post 09/FEB/2009 @ 9:54pm: Moya Brennan band member Sinéad Madden has added a live track to her MySpace page. The song, ‘Summerfly’ which was a hit [...]

A big warm welcome to Daithí Rua (red David) to the Moya Brennan band! Daithí’s very first tour with Moya Brennan will be the UK Heart Strings tour. Daithí is a singer, guitarist, songwriter and a solo artist. Daithí’s début album, ‘Better The Devil You Know’ was released in 2006. He’ll definitely add a lot [...]

Cormac de Barra will perform in Lisburn City (close to my house!) on Friday 13th February 2009. He will perform alongside Karin Leitner with whom he recorded the album ‘Music of Great Irish Houses’. Cormac, who is a member of the Moya Brennan and Clannad bands and hosts ‘Imeall’ on TG4 will perform a concert [...]