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THE SOUND of the cello, a pleasure for the ear and appealing to the heart as the instrument many believe is closest in sound to the human voice, will be at the centre of a new festival for Galway.
Carole King's masterpiece, Tapestry, is not only one of the most commercially successful albums of all time, it marked the pinnacle of the career of one of the greatest songwriters in popular music history.
Musician and Dublin man Jim MCann takes a stroll along the River Liffey.
In the RTÉ Television series My Ireland , well-known singers present an aspect of Ireland with which they are associated. The fifth episode in the series entitled Anna Liffey features the folk singer Jim McCann following the course of the River Liffey from Wicklow to Dublin Bay while singing some of his songs.
The songs are popular folk numbers including Down by the Glenside , ‘The Foggy Dew’, ‘Jug of Punch’, ‘Finnegan s Wake’, ‘Easy and Slow’ and in this extract ‘Down by the Liffeyside’ by songwriter Peadar Kearney.
Like all cities changes in life and values are reflected in building styles, but there’s no changing the Liffey.
Forty years after they first got together to make music, Sligo based Those Nervous Animals are about to release their first complete studio album, The Mission Sessions, consisting of songs from early days and from every decade since, the most recent material recorded remotely during the first Covid-19 lockdown of 2020.
The core band consists of singer and instrumentalist Barry Brennan, bassist and arranger Eddie Lee and guitarist and songwriter Pádraig Meehan.
On this project they are joined by Susan Rowland on vocals and by percussionist/sound engineer/drummer Tom Jamieson.
Those Nervous Animals were just a little bit unusual among new Irish bands of the 1980 s; they mixed blue-eyed soul, funk and indie into an uncategorizable whole.