Clannad & Moya Brennan News

UPDATED 8/SEPT/09: Tickets are not abailable for the October 16th show online at Fantastyval’s website. Moya Brennan will be doing a performance at a Dutch Fantasy Festival called Fantastyval. Moya Brennen will be performing there on friday October 16th. Tickets cost €24,50 and include a free entry on one of the Fantastyval days. Besides Moya [...]

Thanks to a post on the official Moya Brennan forum (go join in!), we know that Moya is to do a track for a movie. Moya was in Los Angeles in the great US to record the track. As well as that, Moya has more tracks for ‘Intrepid Journal’! Moya has done tracks for the [...]

Fiddlers Bid, the band which Fionán de Barra (of the Moya Brennan band) is a member of have got their third album out. It is titled (the very catchy) ‘All Dressed In Yellow’! The first two are amazing, especially the harp playing. Fiddlers’ Bid concentrate a lot on music from the Shetland Islands in Scotland. [...]

Doing a little search on Purashop today, we’ve found a brand new Moya Brennan song! It was recorded live at Focusfest 2001. ‘O Jesus Friend Unfailing’ from the live album The Sound of Grace also features the Solus Choir. Also on the album is Kristyn Lennox (aka Kristyn Getty, who wrote songs for the Brennan/Hogg/Becker [...]

As we mentioned earlier this year, former Celtic Woman Órla Fallon, announced the release of her second solo album. As the release is coming closer and closer she posted at her myspace that you are able to pre-order her album which will be released at September 22nd. The album, Distant Shore, will be very different [...]

Moya Brennan is one of a host of stars to pledge a donation and show admiration of Belfast’s Francis McPeake school of music. The school (which many locals here in and just outside west Belfast attend) is internationally renowned for traditional and folk teaching and performance, but is still open to all people, from all [...]

Moya Brennan has performed ‘Theme From Harry’s Game’ (Clannad) with The Celtic Tenors live at Dublin Irish Festival 2009 in Ohio, USA. A video of the rehearsal was made available by a guest on YouTube. Moya is accompanied by the tenors and a pianist. To check the video out, click here (YouTube). Moya most certainly [...]

A special message to the Dutch fans! Recently a Hyves page has been created in honour of Moya Brennan. For those who don’t know what it is, Hyves is one of many social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. Hyves, however, was founded by people from the Netherlands and is mostly used by Dutch [...]

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 [...]

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