Delighted to be giving a talk on Irish traditional music in Galway, 1961-1981, for this wonderful series. You can join on Zoom or via Facebook, details below.This Thursday, 25 March 1-2 pm

https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97789130755

https://www.facebook.com/Archaeology-NUI-Galway-610798632305750

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Hard to believe this was today a year ago! Music in the Town Concert Series with Holly Geraghty. A week later all was closed down. What a year it has been! Can’t wait to get the series back up and running in due course!

Wishing you a happy Little Christmas!
Here is to weathering the next few weeks safely. Thanks indeed to Mary Horan for her permission to use her beautiful painting “Into the Wind” to accompany this new piece of music…

LIVE STREAM THIS SUNDAY!

Fiddle player Anna Falkenau is performing Seeing-Out-2020, part two in a series of live-streamed concerts from her home in Co. Galway/Ireland. She explains: “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.”
Anna will perform material from Féileacán na Saoirse and I Can Here You Calling, her two most recent albums, alongside new compositions. These are “beautifully quirky, full of unexpected twists and turns, and … a masterclass in imaginative playing and tune-christening alike,” writes Siobhán Long in the Irish Times.
CDs and online fiddle lessons from www.annafalkenau.com or from itunes
https://music.apple.com/ie/album/féileacán-na-saoirse/894281460
https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-can-hear-you-calling/1271594435

donations via PayPal also much appreciated
https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RACDSVN99AJEG

Streaming via www.facebook.com/TradIMM
www.facebook.com/annafiddlemusic
www.youtube.com/annafalkenau

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!

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

Hi, hoping that the current Irish Level 5 lockdown will change to a Level 2 for December: reserve your tickets now  (free) for our socially distanced upcoming lunch time gig on Dec 15th as part of Galway Sessions/Galway 2020 https://galwaysessions.com/product/anna-falkenau-ben-keogh-13-oct-1pm/

Look forward to seeing you there!

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.

Had fun putting down some violin for Shay Leon aka Niyaab Niaz during the week.  Here is the track:

https://soundcloud.com/niyaabniaz/fan-mail

Delighted to announce my first live concert since March: on Oct 13th, Tuesday as part of Galway Sessions/Galway 2020 – lunchtime concert at the Kingshead, Galway 1-2 pm. It will be an old-timey concerts and more details tba soon.