Hi all, got a nice surprise call yesterday from the wonderful Geraldine Clancy to play a session with herself and brilliant guitarist Kevin Hough in Monroe’s in Galway this Friday afternoon, 4.30pm.  Looking forward to the tunes! :-

Hi all, finally back to playing some sessions around the Galway area since last weekend, which has been a treat! Please see some more upcoming ones in the gig Calendar.

Meanwhile, If you’d like to help Ukrainian’s in need you can drop humanitarian aid items to  collection points listed  here:

Hi all in the greater Galway area… info below for collection points to donate to Ukraine… with trucks leaving this Thursday and the following (collection points in Galway, Gort, Tuam, Kinvara) https://t.co/IG6zsBEbb3

— Anna Falkenau (@annafalkenau) March 1, 2022

Thanks to Áine Hensey for the airplay! -Listen in, a lovely program!

https://www.rte.ie/radio/rnag/binneas-beil/programmes/2021/1129/1263857-binneas-beil-d-luain-29-samhain-2021//

Well, we had some wonderful sessions over the weekend back in Padraigin’s and in Barna, as well as some very enjoyable tunes in Athenry in the Arches and in Kinvara, and as far as Kilfenora in  the lovely County Clare! great to be back out and about, catching up with friends and fellow musicians! And very excited to be playing this beautiful venue in Germany in June of 2021!

Happy to share the link for my talk on the Changing Soundscape of Irish traditional music in Galway during the 1960s and 1970s for NUI Galway’s Spring Lunchtime Series earlier this year

https://nuigalway.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Spring+Lunchtime+Lecture+Series+2021+Anna+Falkenau/1_gfxreok2/211424143

Happy mid-summer, all ye good folks near and far!

some of you were asking for the link to a recording of my talk at the Centre for Irish Studies, NUIG talk last week, in association with the Moore Institute.

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Here is the link to youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFjXqvuGelwand
or as podcast
https://anchor.fm/mooreinstitute and on Spotify at: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uW1rOPqCDdTp6LHTbHBzz

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!