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:
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.
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!
Nuala Kennedy and myself had fine times with a couple of self-penned tunes: Niall’s Wee Ferrari by Nuala takes off after a biteen of Vodka & Chocolate, a nice combi back in my Cork days -:https://www.facebook.com/1269216055/videos/10222075512378046/
Happy World Fiddle Day- Night! Fiddling away here in lock-down… a wild Saturday Night!! :- here’s two tunes ‘Fed up’ – and ‘Zeit’ that I made up a little while ago, popped back into my head just there …
https://www.facebook.com/anna.falkenau.1/videos/10221713721213493/
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/
Due to the status red warning for tomorrow, the Music in the Town Concert has been postponed to the following Saturday, March 7. All other details remain the same!
https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/113271/holly-geraghty-to-play-athenry
thanks to Kernan Andrews for this lovely article…