CD Launches
Launches of CD’s are an exciting and enjoyable part of Fleadh Nua and this year we are delighted to host a number of exciting CD launches.
Caitlín Nic Gabhann and Ciarán Ó'Maonaigh - "Caitlín and Ciarán"
Saturday 23rd May @ 12.00pm | Temple Gate Hotel
Award-winning musicians in their own right, Caitlín Nic Gabhann & Ciarán Ó Maonaigh are quickly becoming one of the foremost duets in Ireland today. Their music & dance is rooted in the tradition; full of spirit, soul and life. Together on fiddle, concertina & dance, they breath fire into traditional tunes, combining the two arts with enough chemistry and energy to fire a small steam engine!
Their debut CD ‘Caitlín & Ciarán’ is due out in early April 2015.
“Caitlín Nic Gabhann and Ciarán O Maonaigh are two of the finest instrumentalists on the Irish traditional scene. Individually they are stunning but together they bring a freshness and excitement to the music that is uniquely their own. Their recent performance at the Tulla Trad Festival in Co.Clare was the highlight of the weekend for me.” Robbie O’Connell
Four Winds
Saturday 23rd May @ 2.00pm | Temple Gate Hotel
"Four Winds" will be launching their brand new CD at Fleadh Nua 2015.
The band consists of:
Daoiri Farrell: Bouzouki and Vocals
Caroline Keane: Concertina
Tom Delany: Uilleann pipes and whistles
Robbie Walsh: Bodhran and Percussions
Daoiri Farrell (Vocals and Bouzouki.)
Daoiri's versatile repertoire consists of Irish traditional songs, humour ballads, songs of exile, popular contemporary songs and much more, with a particular grá for uncovering much less well known songs.
Caroline Keane (Concertina). From a young age, Caroline was exposed to the richness of West Limerick and Sliabh Luachra traditional music, an influence which has become the cornerstone of her uniquely vibrant, passionate and emotive style of concertina playing.
Robbie Walsh (Bodhran, percussions and backing vocals)
Robbie is a bodhran player hailing from Dublin. He won the all Ireland bodhran title in 2008 were he then went on to become a Full time musician. The art of the drum was passed on by his uncle. His powerful modern style is one of the foundations of the sound of the band.
Tom Delany (Uilleann pipes and whistles)
With an Irish father and French mother, Tom gained his musicality through osmosis, born and raised in a rich environment of Irish music. Inspired by the traveling style of piping, his rhythmic playing is powerful and daring.
Deeply rooted in the tradition they produce an exciting landscape of tunes and lyrics that reflects their love for Irish traditional music without ignoring modernity and creativity.Their influences extend from Begley and Cooney, The Bothy Band, Planxty, Brady and Irvine,Moving Hearts to Pink Floyd or Elvis.
Angelina Carberry - "Pluckin' Mad"
Saturday 23rd May @ 4.00pm | Temple Gate Hotel
Fleadh Nua are delighted to welcome Angelina Carberry back to Ennis to launch her "Pluckin' Mad" CD at Fleadh Nua 2015.
Angelina Carberry was born in Manchester into a Co. Longford family steeped in Irish traditional music. She followed in the footsteps of her father Peter and Grandfather Kevin, starting on the tin whistle and later progressing to the banjo which is now her main instrument. She moved to Ireland in the late nineties and is now living in Co. Longford.
Angelina has progressed as one of the finest exponents of the Irish tenor banjo of her generation. Her unmistakable banjo sound was captured on her solo 2005 CD, An Traidisún Beo, which was awarded by Earle Hitchner of the New York Irish Echo’s Top 10 CD’S of the year. Her new cd ‘Pluckin Mad’ is due for release and offers a variety of tracks, on banjo and Tenor guitar accompanied by Paul Meehan, Brian McGrath and Johnny McDonagh.
Angelina also recorded with her dad Peter, and granduncle Peter on the highly acclaimed album ‘Memories from the Holla’ accompanied by John Blake. Angelina has appeared on RTE and new TG4 series Bosca Cheoil with her dad Peter. She has toured throughout Ireland, Europe, Japan, and North America that included appearances at major festivals such as the Willie Clancy summer school, Scoil eigse, O’Flaherty Retreat, Texas, and Catskills Irish Arts Week, New York and the Swannanoa Gathering, North Carolina. Angelina often teaches master classes at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University Limerick.
Neansaí Ní Choisdealbha - "Draiocht na Feadóige"
Sunday 24th May @ 4.30pm | Old Ground Hotel
Neansaí will launch her excellent solo album at Fleadh Nua on Sunday 24th May in The Old Gound Hotel
Originally from Cor na Rón in Indreabhán, a small locality that has always been renowned for music, Neansaí Ní Choisdealbha was first encouraged to play music at home by her father, Michael Mheáirt, and her mother, Bairbre Joe Staff Seoighe, originally from Cnoc, Lettermullen.
Having shown great promise as a musician from a tender age, she has never been as busy with music as she is at present and since she was appointed Head of Music at RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta in the spring of 2010. Her skills as a music broadcaster have been tried and tested for years and she is renowned for presenting and producing a live two-hour programme on Sunday.
“This is a great record, an example of the best that traditional Irish music has to offer, and the first to come from the steady hands of Neansaí Ní Choisdealbha” – Meaití Jó Shéamuis
