The Friends of Sliabh Luachra group has had a fine and informative Facebook page going for some time now. It was a Dutchman, Martin Van Hensbergen – who mentioned Patrick O’Keeffe in a post and brought the following link to light. Another fine example of bringing it all back home – if you like. Martin…
The Rockchapel Comhaltas Sliabh Luachra Summer School in Bruach Na Carraige, Rockchapel will run from August 3rd to 8th. Master classes will be directed by Nicky McAuliffe who is a leading authority on traditional Irish music. Nicky will focus on the recently discovered traditional music manuscripts in the National Traditional Music Archives in Dublin and…
Two of the finest of Sliabh Luachra’s many young musicians have teamed up and will launch a CD at the heritage centre in Scartaglin on Saturday night at 8-30pm. Bryan O’Leary and Colm Guilfoyle have been playing music together on a regular basis in recent years and they have chosen organically from their own rich…
Cill na Martra fiddler and now author and composer, Connie O’Connell has just released a book ‘Bóithrín Na Smaointe’ which includes a pair of CDs of tunes he has written and some of them co-written with his daughter, Áine. Friends of his are organising ‘a celebration of the book rather than a book/cd launch’ at…
Killarney publican and singer, Jimmy O’Brien stood behind the counter of his celebrated bar for a couple of years with a half century. The bar closed in the summer of 2013 and just two years after the institution had celebrated its 50th year in business. After a few years spent in Americs in the 1950’s,…
Rockchapel Comhaltas will hold a rambling house in Bruach Na Carraige on the last Friday of each month at 8.30pm starting on Friday 26th September. All singers, dancers, musicians story tellers, and listeners welcome. On Friday, October 3rd there will be a concert in Bruach Na Carraige with An Puc Ar Buile himself Seán O Sé…
On this Saturday night, September 13th the first in a monthly series of talks and concerts will be held in the heritage centre in Scartaglin at 8pm sharp. The Handed Down series is the brainchild of World Fiddle Day, Kerry organiser and musician, PJ Teahan, Castleisland. It will run on a monthly basis from now…
Well, they’re going full belt since they arrived here this morning,” That was Scartaglin Rambling House Bean a’ Tí, Bridie Garvey’s assessment of how the first of the Sliabh Luachra Music Trail Master Classes was going as it neared its conclusion on Saturday evening. Conducted by Anne and Nicky McAuliffe in the heritage centre in Scart,…
A new and exciting series of informative performance / talks on the traditional music of the Sliabh Luachra area will kick off in Scartaglin on Saturday, September 13th. The initiative has been taken by Castleisland native, PJ Teahan in conjunction with the Scartaglin Heritage Centre. Mr. Teahan is also responsible for the highly successful ‘World…
As I mentioned here over the past few weeks, the RTÉ Radio 1traditional music programme, The Rolling Wave is celebrating the music of Sliabh Luachra and remembering two great fiddle-players from this area. The first two programmes were dedicated to the late Paddy Cronin by means of a tribute concert which took place in the Community Hall in…
