| Irish Festivals
Celtic Voices
Six Weeks of Music from Ireland, Scotland and England.
 Satalla,
New York City’s premier world music venue, presents Celtic Voices, a series
of Irish and Scottish musical performances throughout Spring 2005. “Celtic
music” is a loose term that encompasses the traditional music of Ireland,
Scotland, Wales, Brittany and Galicia. In celebration of New York City’s
strong connection to these lands and the springtime holidays of St. Patrick’s
Day and Tartan Day, Celtic Voices brings twelve acts to the Satalla stage
from Tuesday, March 15 through Thursday, April 28.
Artists participating in Celtic Voices include vocalist Karan Casey (March
15), Irish traditional group Solas (March 16), fiddle legend Liz Carroll
and guitar phenom John Doyle (March 19), nation-spanning fiddle trio Celtic
Fiddle Fest (Kevin Burke, Christian Lemaitre, and Andre Brunet) and Quebecois
Celtic folk group Rosheen (March 20), Scottish music revivalists The Battlefield
Band, pictured above, (April 7), African/Celtic hybrid Baka Beyond (April
10), singer Cathie Ryan (April 21), groundbreaking band Flook (April 27)
and Celtic-inspired British folk-rock duo John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee
(April 28).
On any given night, Satalla’s 200 seats are filled with fans of Celtic
music, African, Brazilian, European, Arabic and dozens of other musical
styles from around the globe. The audiences who gather at the cavernous
Flatiron-district space come not only for world music, but to witness
singer-songwriter, folk and blues performances as well, while enjoying a
full kitchen serving American cuisine and a bar serving alcoholic cocktails
as exotic as the club’s musical ones.
Satalla - 37 West 26th Street (between 6th Avenue and Broadway) 212.576.1155
– www.satalla.com
The Ceilidh Trail
Trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, June 18-24, 2005.
It is said there are more fiddles per square mile in Cape Breton than anywhere
else in the world. Join us as we leave from Newark, NJ and travel to Halifax,
Nova Scotia and then on to Cape Breton for seven days and six nights of
Celtic music, dance, culture, workshops, performances and touring of this
incredibly beautiful and traditional corner of the earth. Cape Breton Island
has been compared to the West Coast of Clare and to the Scottish Highlands.
We will travel along the Ceilidh Trail, spending time visiting the many
natural, historical and cultural sites for which Cape Breton is known. By
evening, we will experience the barn dances, ceilidhs and sessions which
this area abounds in.
For more information and to receive a brochure contact: Marianne MacDonald
(856) 256-9118 or email rinceseit@msn.com or Fintan Malone (215) 379-0424
or email fintan1@juno.com
Corr Kicks Off the Craic
The Craic Film Fleadh, now in its seventh year, premiered a number of
Irish and Irish-American films in New York City, March 2 – 5.
The Gala Opening night featured The Boys and Girl from Clare, starring
Andrea Corr (lead singer of The Corrs) and Colm Meaney. Other films included
the Irish language shorts, An Duil and Fluent Dysphasia, starring Stephen
Rea; Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom, director Daniel O’Hara’s follow-up to his highly
successful short Burning the Bed, which stars Aidan Gillen of HBO’s The
Wire; and Brendan Muldowney’s award-winning short The Ten Steps.
The award-winning documentary Battle of the Bogside, which takes us behind
the barricades on both sides of the 3-day riot in Derry City in 1969, was
also shown as was Ram Jodha’s American Faces, a film about an Irish-American
and Indian American family pre-9/11 and post-9/11.
Omagh, starring Gerard McSorley, closed the Festival. This award-winning
film highlights the struggle of a father who fights for the truth surrounding
the August 1998 bombing in Omagh, Co. Tyrone.
Raise The Roof
Raise the Roof, a documentary on the building and opening of the Glór
Irish Music Centre in Co. Clare, had its New York City premiere on February
24. Produced and directed by Patrick Farrelly and Kate O’Callaghan and set
in the heartland of traditional music in the West of Ireland, Raise The
Roof explores one woman’s battles against time, bureaucracy and even the
musicians themselves to open a twenty first century home for Irish traditional
music. For information on The Glór Music Center visit
www.glor.ie
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