Comhaltas
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- Munster Convention 2009 Report
- 21 February 2009
Tionóladh an 49 ú Comhdháil na Mumhan ar an 8 ú Feabhra 2009 san Ostán Hibernian, Mágh Ealla, Co Chorcai
To view photographs from the convention Click Here
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- Busy Halloween in Youghal
- 13 October 2008
We are looking forward to a busy weekend of activities in Youghal this Halloween as we hold our AGM, welcome visitors from our sister branch Craobh Amergin the Gael and the Cúlra group from Britain.
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- Some Tunes From Foinn Seisiún Book 3
- 21 January 2008
We’ve produced a CD for our newest tunebook, volume 3 in the “Foinn Seisiún” series of session sets (available to buy online). Here are some of our working tracks as the project moved along, just in case the Irish Music community out there is interested in taking a listen!
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- Liverpool Musicians on RTE
- 14 December 2007
RTE Radio and television featured traditional entertainment from Liverpool over the weekend of 14 December 2007–16 December 2007. The Pobal television programme on Sunday 16th December, also visited Leeds where members of the Irish community including musicians and dancers took part. Young GAA activists in Britain including training sessions at Bishop Challoner School in Birmingham were also featured in the programme.
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- Comhaltas expands to South America
- 20 June 2007
Last night the first South American branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann was established in Argentina. The inaugral meeting took place in Ceolaras Coleman in Gurteen, Co. Sligo, a Comhaltas Regional Resource Centre.
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- Downloading ComhaltasLive Programmes
- 30 May 2007
We’ve had some requests lately to support downloading our daily ComhaltasLive videos. While the video files themselves are quite large and not practical for downloading, I’ve set up the audio for each programme or segment to be downloaded or played directly, which should better support visitors with dial-up internet access.
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- Looking for a Designer/Illustrator
- 14 May 2007
If any of you Irish music lovers feel moved to contribute some original artwork that you think would work well for t-shirts, mugs, wall clocks — anything, really — I’d love to put your design on some stuff, with appropriate credit given.
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- NASC Winners 2007
- 11 May 2007
Comhaltas runs an annual prize drawing called NASC, benefitting the local branches. The winners were announced this last weekend at the annual Congress weekend here in Monkstown, Co. Dublin, and here are the results.
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- Shameless Commerce
- 11 May 2007
OK, so merchandising is hardly the core mission of Comhaltas, but I’ve made a couple of Comhaltas-branded things available in the Comhaltas Shop area of our website. Right now, you can buy a Comhaltas golf shirt, mousepad, or bumper sticker.
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- Irish Music: Definitions
- 14 April 2007
Irish music can mean different things to different people. What do you think?
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- The Rambles of Kitty
- 27 March 2007
I’ve just posted the tracks from “The Rambles of Kitty”. This 1967 LP was the first recording that Comhaltas made, and included performances from many of the popular names of the 50s and 60s: Joe Burke, Seán Keane, Séamus Connolly, Anne Mulqueen and others.
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- SCT Exams for Spring of 2009
- 15 March 2007
Entries for the Spring 2009 round of exams will be accepted from October up until the cut-off date of Friday, 13th December 2008.
All applicants and teachers are encouraged to carefully read the SCT Syllabus in advance of the exam, paying particular attention to the requirement for the written submissions at the Senior level.
Entries for the Spring 2009 round of exams will be accepted up until the cut-off date of 1st December 2008.
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- Launch Event
- 1 February 2007
- Comhaltas brings you the webcast launch of the new comhaltas.ie! You can watch the webcast live at 21.00 GMT on Feb 15, 2007.