Included in this email:

 

 

-         This Sat 23 Jan, Maureen Linane, Karen Ryan and Pete Quinn at Keenan’s Bar

-         Get your tickets for John and James Carty with John Blake in concert before they go (only 100 capacity venue) – Fri 29 Jan

-         Geoff Holland’s set dancing dates this term

-         Comhaltas in Britain Annual Convention/ Concert/ Ceili in Elstree 13/14 Feb

-         14 March, Mai Hernon (Co. Sligo) appears at Walthamstow Folk Club

-         Sat 20 March, Set Dancing Ceili in Dulwich with Dealga Trad

-         BBC Young Composers Competition

-         Comhaltas in Britain Tour Feb 2010

                                  

 

 

 

Session this Saturday night Sat 16th Jan, from 9pm: Maureen Linane (accordion), Karen Ryan (fiddle), Pete Quinn (keyboard) and friends at Keenan’s Pub

 

…lovely tunes, great atmosphere and a chance for a drink and a chinwag! J

 

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 multicoloured library)

Buses: 134 and 43 (both are a 10 minute journey from Highgate tube - Northern Line)

134 http://www.londonbusroutes.net/times/134.htm 

43  http://www.londonbusroutes.net/times/043.htm

for a map/ other transport info see: http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/25/25218/Keenans/Muswell_Hill

  

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Return to Camden Town Preview Event 2010

 

JOHN AND JAMES CARTY WITH JOHN BLAKE IN CONCERT

Friday 29th January 2010, 7.30pm Doors Open

Presidential Suite, London Irish Centre, 50 Camden Square, London NW1 9XB

Tickets: £10 in advance/ £13 on the night/ £8 concession/ £6 under 18s

Purchase your tickets online now at Iris Tickets via this link: http://tiny.cc/ZiFye or via the link at www.returntocamden.org

 

We advise booking early as capacity is limited to 100!

 

Apart from those who already know and love the lads and their playing - anyone in London who is learning the fiddle, flute or an accompaniment instrument couldn’t find 3 more inspiring players – come and feast your eyes and ears!

 

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Comhaltas na Breataine

Annual Convention & AGM

Saturday 13^th & Sunday 14^th February 2010

at

The Holiday Inn Elstree

Borehamwood

WD6 5PU

 

Programme of Events

 

Saturday 13^th Feb

6pm

 

Mass

followed by

Buffet Concert

with performances from talented regional artists

and

Céilí

With music from The Reel Note Céilí Band (from Birmingham)

 

 

Sunday 14^th Feb

10am

 

Comhaltas na Breataine AGM 2009/2010

 

Registration commences at 10.00am and closes at 10.45am.  AGM starts at 11:00am sharp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear All, 

 

Willie Purcell has re-arranged the Set Dance ceili that was to be held on the 9th January but cancelled due to the weather.  

 

The new date is Saturday 20 March 2010 all tickets bought in advance for the 9th January ceili will be valid for this ceili. 

Venue is St Thomas Moore Hall, 116a Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, SE22.

Music by Delga Trad.

 

The ceili is in aid of St Christopher's Hospice SE26, please let others know and encourage them to come along for a good night and support this good cause.

 

Thanks

 

 

Mai Hernon – 14^th March _at_ Walthamstow Folk Club

Fine traditional singer from Co. Sligo performs in East London

Mai Hernon was born in the heart of Coleman County in County Sligo, Ireland to a musical family.

She is developing a fine reputation as a superb singer of traditional songs in the Irish Tradition and this evening is a rare chance to hear her in action.

Admission £6 (£5 concessions

http://www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk/

 

 

Aged 12 - 18 and keen
to write your own music?

Get Inspired by BBC Proms events designed just for you,
February - August 2010.

Get involved with Inspire, a BBC Proms scheme that will provide you with a friendly environment in which to share ideas, participate in workshops, meet other young composers, get feedback and develop your musical creativity.
Best of all, it’s all free!

“The BBC Inspire events are a must for anyone interested in what other composers are writing and thinking.”
Joe, 2009 Young Composers’ Competition winner

Find out how to get involved and see what participants got up to last year by clicking on www.bbc.co.uk/proms

BBC Proms Composer Labs
Take the opportunity to join professional musicians from the UK’s best orchestras, top composers and the BBC Proms team in a day of music making, exploration and discovery at locations all around the UK. Bring your instrument, an idea, a rhythm, a melody, a finished work or just a friend.

Labs take place from February to April in Glasgow, London, Cardiff, Cornwall, Birmingham and Manchester.

Visit www.bbc.co.uk/proms for dates and details.

Young Composers’ Competition
All styles and inspirations welcome!

Fancy hearing your composition broadcast on BBC Radio 3? Enter your own, original piece of music – no more than five minutes long – to the BBC Proms Young Composers’ Competition by 28 May 2010 for the chance for your work to be performed and recorded by BBC musicians at Proms events.

Last year‘s winners were commissioned to write for the Last Night of the Proms! Who knows where your commission will take you?