Clannad & Moya Brennan News

Enya has been nominated for a Grammy award for her ‘And Winter Came…’ album. Roma left the following message: “Enya, Nicky and Roma are delighted to announce that the cover artwork design for ‘And winter came’ has been nominated for a Grammy award” at Enya.com Despite it being my least favourite Enya cover, good luck [...]

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 [...]

A new design should be up, email us over at the contact page with anything you’d like to see on the website! Niamh, Ezra, Killiney and I are busy with work/college etc., so best to email! The design will be nice and shiny and bright and simple, promise! Ooooh, and it will have lots of [...]

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 [...]

Thanks so much to Brian (Spokrtymike), you can now get into the festive mood with a live video from 2000, when Moya Brennan and Ronan Keating performed ‘Fairytale of New York’. Although the studio recording isn’t a big favourite, this live performance is gorgeous, it’ll get you in the Christmas mood! Have a happy Christmas [...]