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Doireann Ní Ghlacain and Tara Howley-KinoCork. Cork Folk Festival 2020. Photo: Bríd O Donovan
Clare musicians to feature on new TG4 show
May 13, 2021
CLARE musicians Tara Howley and Doireann Ní Ghlacáin are to feature as part of a new six episode TG4 series of concerts recorded at the Cork Folk Festival in 2020.
The episode will be broadcast on Sunday, May 16 at 9.30pm. Tara is an award winning multi-instrumentalist, singer and dancer from Kilfenora. She has spent the last number of years as the piper with Riverdance and is a social media star with her tune a day campaign in 2019. She is also behind her father Pádraic Howley’s runaway Instagram success story ‘Sing and Step with Padraig. She is a two-time senior all Ireland champion on the uilleann pipes. Tara has numerous all Ireland titles in solo competitions and with bands and groups in various instruments such as concertina, fiddle, uilleann pipes and many more. In 2014 Tara toured Britain and Ireland with the gr
Who Is. Robbie O Connell?
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Who Is Robbie O Connell?
Robbie O Connell is a singer and songwriter of international renown. In a career spanning almost 50 years, his songs have captured the essence of Irish traditional music while keeping a sharp focus on current events and contemporary social issues. O Connell s storytelling, warm personality, and hilarious sense of humor make his live performances unique, and an experience fondly remembered long after the applause has faded.
In this relaxed, informal exploration of his life in music, I use my close friendship with the singer to focus on his early influences, emigration to the US, and development as a songwriter and collaborator. His work with The Clancy Brothersâwho were his unclesâand Mick Moloney, Jimmy Keane, Donal Clancy, Aoife Clancy, James Keane, and many others has left a profoundly resonant and influential set of recordings.
As Liam Clancy remembers it, being asked to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show did not seem like a big deal.
“We just did not understand the significance,” he told Irish America in a recent interview, during a publicity tour to promote a brilliant rerelease of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem performing live at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in 1963.
Two years before that historic performance, as Clancy recalls, they were a group of slightly shady characters best known in that bohemian redoubt, Greenwich Village.
“Irish-Americans weren’t really interested in us,” said Liam, the youngest of the Clancy brothers. “Pete Seeger played with us. A lot of people said: ‘They’ve got a Communist up there.’ So most of our audience were folkies and liberal Jews.”