BALLAGHADERREEN 2022-SEE YOU THERE..
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ROSCOMMON COUNTY FLEADH CHEOIL- BALLAGHADERREEN -Easter Weekend FRIDAY15th/SATURDAY16th/SUNDAY17th&BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY18th April & 3 Days Before Warming Up & 3 Days After Keeping Her Lit!!
Roscommon sisters and boxing champions, Aoife and Lisa O’Rourke will be awarded the Freedom of Roscommon in honour of their recent accomplishments at a special event on December 8th. Lisa won the IABA Women’s World Championships in Istanbul in May of this year while Aoife won her second European...
Mullingar has been confirmed as the host town for Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2023
Hosting Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Mullingar in 2022 is a very special moment for the community, as it is the town where Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann was founded in 1951 – making it a true homecoming for all involved. The people of Westmeath will welcome both local and international musicians and attendees to the county. They are anticipating huge visitor numbers to events.
'We are so pleased to have finally arrived at this momentous gathering. We are very proud that Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann has returned to its roots here in Mullingar, where the first ever Fleadh took place; organised by founding members of Comhaltas. From just a few hundred people in attendance all those years ago, to the hundreds of thousands who will flock to the county this year, the Fleadh is intrinsic in preserving the legacy of Irish traditional music, dance and culture'. President Michael D. Higgins
Are ya coming to the Fleadh?- useful town map with locations and venues highlighted
Full schedule of free events available to see on our website https://fleadhcheoil.ie/full-schedule-of-events/
We can’t wait for these streets to be full of groups of musicians playing on the streets for the love of the music, and for everyone to enjoy.
Bígí Linn!
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2022
An Muileann gCearr
This year, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann returns home to Mullingar! After 70 years, the world's largest traditional Irish music festival returns to where it all began.
Bígí Linn and experience some of the biggest names in Irish music perform live. Visit our website to get your tickets to a Homecoming not to be missed.
https://fleadhcheoil.ie/events/
RIP Seamus Tansey. (Clip from Spells, Ballaghaderreen, 2018)
Dear Dennis, we knew each other for over thirty five years without ever really giving verbal expression to how we felt about each other. Once in a while after a whiskey you might lean your arm on my shoulder and tell me that I was a good guy or that we’d made a difference, I knew what you meant. It would be an understatement however to say you didn’t like any mushy emotional talk, but yet, without ever having to say it, we were both keenly aware of our deep loyalty and love towards each other. That feeling of trust was always there in such a way that we never had to talk about it. We really were great friends, we loved each other and we really had a hell of an adventure.
We started on a musical journey many years ago in the bar rooms of Chicago, we didn’t think we’d ever make it out of those bars to the concert stage, but today the President of Ireland and the government minister for the arts were both writing about the huge impact you had on the world of traditional music. You made it out of the bar scene and on to some of the finest stages of the world. You really did succeed, you pulled it all together into a most beautiful crystallization of your musical loves and influences. Nobody before you had ever played those chords and rhythms with Irish music, in the way you did. You matched the beauty of these traditional Irish melody’s with your own equally beautiful sequences of chords and hypnotic rhythms. Every night we played, we would give it our all, we’d zig and zag until we locked in. Some of those moments were sublime moments where our connection was truly telepathic. There were so many times on stage when you were simply able to read my mind and I hope that you still can.
I wasn’t able to listen to our recordings yesterday as I sat in the airport in Manchester. I don’t think I’d have been able to hold it together if I listened. I heard you slipped away to the sound of us playing “The Lament for Limerick”. You remember the evening we recorded it when we were nervously making our first album in the basement of the house in Seattle. We had already recorded the air Bruach Na Carraige Báine and then I changed my mind and said let’s go downstairs and record the Lament for Limerick instead, we did it in just one un-edited take, right in the moment, just like we did with the Paul Ha’penny set.
It was kind of fitting that I found myself in an airport for many hours yesterday, maybe we spent more time together in airports than anywhere else. We’d often meet at the gate of some connecting flight, you having come from Chicago and me from wherever I was living at the time. I’d be searching for that backward slanting baseball cap in the crowd, or sometimes just your shaved head. Yesterday in the distance I spotted somebody from the back with a shaved head and a black tea shirt, and for an instant I had that familiar momentary jolt of thinking I’d just found you. I suspect that I will be having that experience for some time to come. You might have looked like someone else with a shaved head and black T-shirt, but in reality I never knew anyone remotely like you. You were one of a kind, a very special blend of talent, humility, grace and good humor.
The last time you and I were in this airport it was just as crowded and I remembered you suggesting that we go and find a lounge and pay for a few hours of quietness, you said we deserved it. I took your advice again yesterday and sat there in the quietness reading messages of love and admiration from every friend you and I had ever known. I spent those hours mostly remembering your life and all of the shared experiences we had while touring the world together. Reading messages from those who loved you so much was comforting and heartwarming. It was lovely to see from their messages that the beauty of your chords and music had gone so deeply into the hearts of so many people. Little did I know when we were in that lounge back then, that the next time I would be there, you would be gone from us.
We came from different musical worlds, but together, we made our own world of music and I think we made a difference. I am forever indebted to you and grateful to you for all those magic years of music, friendship and fun.
Safe journey onwards, you got the early boarding again, but I’ll see you at the other end.
I love you
Martin.
Gig rig is in. Bartley on a break ahead of tomorrow Thursday’s first night of gig rig music at the in come along for the tunes from 7.30pm and it’s all FREE!
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann returns to Mullingar for 2022 Updated / Thursday, 2 Jun 2022 06:00 Musicians Oisin Wallace and Nicole Reynolds with Fleadh Cheoil supporter Lauren Reynolds in Mullingar It's been announced that the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann will return this summer after a two-year hiatus,...
🎶Sligo County Fleadh~ Riverstown ~This Weekend🎵
With Hugh Grogan, John Kelly, Paddy Allen, Bernadette Nic Gabhann, et al...
Now There’s A Line Up - Skirm, Sean Regan, Paul Daly, Johnny Towey and Dom Keogh playing ‘OPEN AIR ON THE SQUARE’ Today.
THE DAY OF THE DALY.. Fleadh Day 4- Competition Day in St Nathy’s Collage from 10am : OPEN AIR ON THE SQUARE 2pm-6pm Including Presentation of 2022 Fleadh Gradam to PAUL DALY 🎶
Reports of serious outbreaks of tunes all day in all public house areas in Ballaghaderreen on this Easter Sunday. Tomorrow- Monday is competition day in St Nathy’s collage from 10am. ‘OPEN AIR ON THE SQUARE’ 2pm-6pm. Gradam award to be presented to Paul Daly at ‘Open Air On The Square@ 2pm.
Saturdays ‘Open Air On The Square’ Coming To A Close… Tunes Now Breaking In All The Bars Round Town… Also Tonight- JOHN CARLOUS ALBUM LAUNCH~Spells Bar@ 8pm…. (Sundays ‘Open Air On The Square Now Moved To Bank Holiday Monday 2pm-6pm)
WHAT A BRILLIANT KICK OFF- Rip Roaring Fleadh Ceíli in Creatons Tonight🎶.. Tomorrow Saturday- OPEN AIR ON THE SQUARE 330pm-7pm Including Official Opening of Fleadh with Patsy Hanly & Bernie Flaherty@ 5pm🎶Also Saturday- Loads of Tunes in All The Pubs Including John Carlous Album Launch- Spells Bar@ 8pm.. Sundays Open Air On The Square Moved To Bank Holiday Monday 2pm- 6pm Including Presentation of Fleadh Gradam to Paul Daly@ 2pm🎶
AVAILABLE IN BALLAGHADERREEN- 2022 Fleadh Souvenir Booklet On Sale Now in Duffy’s SuperValu, Towey’s, Main St, and NewsRound, Barrack St. The book has Competition Timetable, Fleadh Event Guide and great contritions from Niamh Towey, Darragh Kelly, Bernie Flaherty and others.
One Change To This Weekends County Fleadh Lineup- SUNDAYS ‘OPEN AIR ON THE SQUARE’ IS MOVED TO BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY 2pm-6pm. Paul Daly Will Now Receive The 2022 Fleadh Gradam Award On The Square@ 2pm On Monday. . (Please Share)
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| Friday | 10:00 - 12:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 - 12:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 - 12:00 |
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