Comhaltas
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- SCT Exams 2012
- 8 Eanáir 2012
Entries for the 2012 SCT exams will be accepted from 1st November 2011 until the closing date of Monday 9th January 2012. No entries will be accepted after this date. The 2012 exam period will run from 19th March to 3rd June 2012.
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- Comhaltas Tour Of Britain 2012 - Echoes Of Erin
- 3 Eanáir 2012
The Annual Comhaltas Tour of Britain Echoes of Erin starts its tour of Britain on Saturday, February 25th in Luton. For audiences in the UK the Echoes of Erin tours provide a fantastic showcase
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- 2011 Concert Tour of North America
- 8 Lúnasa 2011
Echoes of Erin - The 2011 Comhaltas Concert Tour of North America group, which includes some of the top Irish traditional performers, will visit the following venues with an exciting show of traditional Irish music, song and dance.
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- Munster Convention 2011 Report
- 19 Feabhra 2011
Tionóladh an 51 ú Comhdháil na Mumhan ar an 6 ú Feabhra 2011 san Ostán Hibernian, Mágh Ealla, Co Chorcai
To view photographs from the convention Click Here
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- St Louis Irish Arts to visit Skibbereen
- 10 Lúnasa 2010
This weeekend, Skibbereen branch of Comhaltas will be visited by a group of forty members of St Louis Irish Arts Comhaltas from Missouri, USA.
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- Busy Halloween in Youghal
- 13 Deireadh Fómhair 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 Eanáir 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 Nollaig 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 Meitheamh 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 Bealtaine 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 Bealtaine 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 Bealtaine 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 Bealtaine 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 Aibreán 2007
Irish music can mean different things to different people. What do you think?
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- The Rambles of Kitty
- 27 Márta 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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- Launch Event
- 1 Feabhra 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.