From: Karen Ryan [k.ryan_at_virgin_dot_net]
Sent: 21 January 2011 00:05
Subject: Run at RFH (Fri 21 Jan)/
Youth Trad Singing W'shop (Sun 23 Jan)/ Harpist Lily Neill at Green Note (Mon
24 Jan) and more ...
Included in this email:
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Friday 21 January 2011:
If you're in (London) town and free Friday
lunchtime - our lovely singer and harpist, Brona McVittie is giving a free
performance with her acapella gaelic/ celtic choir 'Run' in the Royal Festival
Hall Foyer Bar (level 2), 1-2pm.
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Message from Kathy Walton who has recently started
London's:
YOUTH TRADITIONAL SINGING CLUB
Our Youth Singing Club will be hosting its 3rd
gathering this Sunday 23rd January with guest singer Conor Walsh.
Conor will teach two new songs from scratch, one
slow and one lively.
Bring a pen and if possible something to record
with. You can join in as part of the group and you don't need to sing
solo! We'll give you a song sheet to take away and can send recordings to you
afterwards by email.
Please book in through meitheal_at_btinternet_dot_com
or by text to 07534 093949, then meet at 2pm in the foyer of the London Irish
Centre, 50-52 Camden Square, NW1 9XB.
Voluntary donations welcome (suggested amount: £5)
New members welcome!
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Folk and Roots and hosting Harpist Lily Neill at
the Green Note on the 24th January - www.folkonmonday.co.uk
for details
''Lily Neill is recognized as' ... part of the
new Harp revolution extolling aspects of harp music never previously heard,''
2005 Irish Music Magazine. She was a prize-winner at the All-Ireland Harp
competition and has won numerous awards, honours and scholarships for her
technical and artistic abilities as well as her original compositions.
More recently Lily was named LiveIreland.com's '2006 New Female Artist of the
Year'. Lily's musical style is at once rich in tradition and uniquely her
own.'
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Message from Geoff Holland:
Hey Folks, what're you doing on Tuesday 1
February?
I'm hosting an evening of Irish social dancing
at the London Irish Centre. 7.30-10pm
Top accordion player Tony Kearney will be on
hand to provide the music.
Everyone is invited to dance sets, ceili
dances, the waltz and shoe the donkey. Each dance will be briefly demonstrated
and rehearsed with some advice on the basic step. This is a night of
dancing for total novices and experienced dancers. No one will be
disappointed. Spectators are welcome too.
It's Free.
Just turn up on the night.
It's taking place in the context of the London
Irish Centre Open Day, which is happening throughout the day.
Hope to see you.
Bye for now
Geoff.
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New Friday session starts at Keenan's on Friday
4th February with Paddy Egan (concertina), Peter McAlinden (keyboard) and
friends.
89 Colney Hatch Lane, Muswell Hill, London N10 1LR
(near the junction with Sutton Road - in amongst the parade of
shops which includes the Post Office and the new stripy library)
Busses 134 and 43 (both are a 10 minute journey from Highgate
tube - Northern Line)
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If you haven't already, please come and join us
on facebook - search for 'Return to Camden Town Events' and click
'like' OR click on the following link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Return-to-Camden-Town-Events/104823076234568 to
keep up to date with all that's going on. Photos from the 2008/ 09 and 10
Festivals have recently been uploaded! Come and have a look.
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COMHALTAS EVENTS IN 2011: message from John Devine
January 21st, 8.30pm
Comhaltas Leagrave Branch New Year's Session
St Joseph's Parish Centre, Gardenia Avenue, Luton
January 29th, 8.30pm
Comhaltas St Alban's Branch New Year's Session
St Alban's Irish Club, Cotlandswick, London
Colney, St Alban's
I will also soon be hosting a traditional Irish
music programme from 7-9pm on Tuesday evenings, on St Alban's local community
radio, Radio Verulam. The station broadcasts locally on 92.6fm but the
station is also streamed live on the internet at www.radioverulam.com.
Please let me know if you have any events you'd like advertised, requests,
dedications or if you would like to contribute to the programme content.
I look forward to seeing you at an event
somewhere soon
John
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Welcome back to The Auld Triangle sessions :-)
Just to let you know that the legendary Sunday
night sessions at The Auld Triangle pub in Finsbury Park are back up and
running ... and long may they continue.
Every Sunday at 8pm (unless there's an Arsenal
match), session hosted by:
Gary Connolly (accordion), Sinead Linane
(fiddle), James Carty (flute) and Reg Hall (keyboard).
Come down and show your support for some great
music!
The Auld Triangle, 52 St Thomas's Road (corner
of Plimsoll Road), London N4 2QW. Tel. 020 7354 2869
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The Irish community in Britain is running a
national campaign to encourage as many Irish and people of Irish descent to
register their Irish ethnicity in the upcoming Census, taking place on the 27
March 2011. We're doing this to combat underrepresentation of the Irish
in official figures.
You can play a critical role in making this happen. For the
moment we're building a database of supporters who identify with their Irish
roots. We're calling on you to sign up to the campaign and invite your
friends, contacts and colleagues to sign up too. This will give the
campaign the right support it needs to be the success we all want it to be.
Please help by joining the campaign, where you
also can find out more about it, at www.howirishareyou.com
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FRIDAYS IN 2011
4th Feb: Kathleen O'Sullivan and Billy Teare
4th March: Jim Bainbridge
8th April: Askew Sisters
17th June: Bloomsday event with poet Racker
Donnelly
May 6th-8th 2011 Keith Summers Festival
Grace Toland & Brian Doyle, Patricia Flynn,
Mick Quinn (tbc), Oliver Mulligan and Brendan McAuley, Joe Aitken, Geordie
Murison, Dan & Bonnie Milner, Jeff Warner, John and Katie Howson's
East Anglian Concert Party.
Musical Traditions folk club
The King & Queen, 1 Foley Street, London W1W
6DL
Nearest tube: Goodge Street/ Warren
Street. Parking OK after 6.30pm Club runs 8-11pm Admission
for club nights: members £6, concs. £4 Non-members £7, concs. £5
http://webukonline.co.uk/
martin.nail/MusTrad/MTCintro.htm