Live Stream this eve at 18:30 UTC

Looking forward to this:

Fiddle player Anna Falkenau is performing Seeing-Out-2020, a series of two live-streamed twenty minute concerts from her home in Co. Galway/Ireland. “So as to, hopefully, see this extraordinary year out on a good note, reflective of all the loss and hardship endured by people around the globe and also with a hopeful note. I remember imagining what 2020 would look like, back before the turn of the Millennium; it seemed so far off, the distant future then. The title of my solo CD Féileacán na Saoire – The Butterfly of Freedom is all about the beauty and fragility of various freedoms and the luck to live in personal freedom; little did I connect it then with the threat of a health emergency, rather than that of a totalitarian system.”
CDs available from
www.annafalkenau.com and from itunes
or donations via
https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RACDSVN99AJEG
Thank you!

found this nice picture

Came across this lovely picture the other day: from a gig of Tony Small’s CD release concerts 2012, for Mandolin Mountain. RIP Tony.

Mandolin Mountain
with Mary Shannon, Jackie Small, Anna Falkenau

Seeing-out-2020 concerts

Anna is performing Seeing-Out-2020, a series of live-streamed concerts from her home in Co. Galway/Ireland.  “So as to, hopefully, see this extraordinary year out on a good note, reflective of all the loss and hardship endured by people around the globe and also with a hopeful note. I remember imagining what 2020 would look like, back before the turn of the Millennium; it seemed so far off, the distant future then. The title of my solo CD Féileacán na Saoire – The Butterfly of Freedom is all about the beauty and fragility of various freedoms and the luck to live in personal freedom; little did I connect it then with the threat of a health emergency, rather than that of a totalitarian system.”

There are two upcoming dates in the series: Sunday, 30 November and Sunday, 20 December, 6.30pm UTC. You can also catch her for an actual in-venue gig on Tuesday December 15th, as part of the Galway Sessions @ Galway 2020, with Dublin five-string banjo player and singer Ben Keogh and guitarist Camilla Monroe.

Fundraiser for Livie tomorrow’s raffle

 the Raffle is on tomorrow of a bunch of wonderful CDs in aid of Livie, including “I can hear you calling” and “Féileacán na Saoirse” … go over to Dáire Mulhern facebook page tomorrow, Wednesday live at 6pm. Support has been wonderful and yours is much much appreciated!

I am raising funds for Keith Mulhern (my 1st cousin) and Karen Vickers whose 10-month-old baby girl is ve… Daire Mulhern needs your support for CDs for Olivia
https://www.gofundme.com/f/cds-for-olivia?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR0Gu7V27r5mWL3Rz1t_Hks9oBugLe0FYcxC8iDD520SzC6kBBRZViZc450

Quarantunes

Some great music being played on Quarantunes and here is a couple of tunes:  #Quarantunes hope ye are keeping well! Thanks to Nuala Kennedy for the nomination. (Time has a way to slip by-especially in lock-down w a seven year old… ) Here a couple of tunes, I love. The first one is Wednesday Visit, comp. Paddy O’Brien. It’s in his book in aminor, but I love it in dminor. The second one is Ben’s Brogue’s, one of the many wonderful Charlie Lennon tunes, written for his late brother Ben, RIP. I’d like to nominate, if they haven’t already contributed, Holly Geraghty, Steve Sweeney, Patricia McCusker, Mary Shannon, Barbara H-Meier and Eugene Lambe for a tune. Here is another good cause to donate to…
https://www.unicef.ie/donate/… thanks all!

https://www.facebook.com/anna.falkenau.1/videos/10221645100658022/