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05/11/2014 The Sun-Eire:Nova pay list deal......................................................................................................................... 3

21/11/2014 Daily Mirror Eire:Other Voices will be worth hearing............................................................................................... 4

01/11/2014 IPU Review:Registration requirements for pharmacies: Music licences............................................................5

26/11/2014 Hot Press:RICE TO PLAY OTHER VOICES....................................................................................................... 7

05/11/2014 Irish Examiner:Royalties row sorted out............................................................................................................... 8

09/11/2014 The Mail on Sunday-Eire:Soundtrack joins Love/Hate hit-list.............................................................................................. 9

01/01/2015 Irish Music Annual:THE VIEW FROM THE CHAIR....................................................................................................... 10

01/01/2015 Irish Music Annual:TRADFEST TEMPLE BAR MORE THAN JUST A MUSIC FESTIVAL.................................................... 12

19/11/2014 Kerryman South:Tralee ready to rock at Hennessy tribute.................................................................................... 16

20/11/2014 Irish Times:What's On................................................................................................................................... 17

20/11/2014 Kerrys Eye:what's on YOUR GUIDE TO EVENTS IN KERRY.............................................................................19

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11/05/2014 00:00 | The Sun-Eire

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Nova pay list deal

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11/21/2014 00:00 | Daily Mirror Eire

Media Source: PressPage: 2,3Author: MAEVE QUIGLEY

Other Voices will be worth hearing

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IPU Review*Saturday, 1 November 2014Page: 53,54

Circulation: 2800Area of Clip: 108600mm²Page 1 of 2

BUSINESS Darren Kelly, IPU Business Development Manager

Registration requirements for pharmacies:

Music licences There are many business regulations and registration requirements with which a pharmacy must comply. In a series of articles over the coming months, Darren Kelly, Business Development Manager for the IPU, will update you on the licences/registrations that are required to ensure that your business remains compliant. A list of the registration requirements for pharmacies is shown at the end of this article.

This article discusses Music Licences.

A music licence is needed whenever copyright music is played in public, whether by cd, tape, radio, TV, Satellite, PC or by any other means. If you play music in your pharmacy, this is considered to be played in public and, therefore, a royalty payment is due on behalf of the songwriters, composers and publishers.

(A sound recording is played publicly when it is played outside the family/domestic circle.)

There are two licences that you must have if you play music in your pharmacy. They are:

1. PPI (Phonographic Performance Ireland)

2. IMRO (Irish Music Rights Organisation)

l.PPI PPI controls the public performance, broadcasting and other rights in hundreds of thousands of different recordings on thousands of different labels. These include not only Irish recordings, but also most recordings available worldwide. A licence from PPI gives you the right to play virtually any sound recording from anywhere in the world.

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The annual fee for a licence varies from around €96 to €1,000*, depending on the size of the premises.

2. IMRO IMRO collects royalties on behalf of songwriters, composers and publishers for music played in retail shops. The annual fee for a licence varies from €217 to €2,360*, depending on the size of the premises.

What if you do not get a licence from PPI and IMRO?

Playing music without the licences is considered a breach of copyright, which could result in legal action against you. Both PPI and IMRO have inspectors who may enter your premises to check for a licence.

For further information on PPI and IMRO: PPI, Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-6612048, Email: [email protected] Web: www.ppiltd.com.

IMRO, Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-6614844 Email: [email protected] Web: www.imro.ie.

* (Figures correct at time of going to print)

Registration requirements for pharmacies

Pharmaceutical Society Pharmacy Act 2007 Registration of Pharmacists PSI House, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 of Ireland (PSD Registration of Pharmacy Ph: 01 218 4000 Fax: 01 283 7678

www.thepsi.ie

Health Service Executive GMS Contract Register if dispense GMS etc, HSE Community Pharmacist

(HSE) prescriptions

Waste Electrical & Electronic WEEE Directive Register if you sell any electrical WEEE Ireland Suite 18, The Mall, Equipment (WEEE) or electronic equipment Beacon Court, Sandyford, Dublin 18

Ph: 01 299 9320 Fax: 01 295 9410 www.weeeireland.ie

Environmental Health Office Food Business Operator Register if you sell any food Local HSE Office Health Service Executive products (baby food, gluten-free (HSE) products etc.)

Customs & Excise Methylated Spirits License to sell methylated spirits Revenue Commissioners Ph: 1890 666 333/067 63400 www.revenue.ie

Irish Music Rights If you play a radio/cd License Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Organisation (IMRO) instore Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2

Ph: 01 661 4844 Fax: 01 676 3125

www.imro.ie

Phonographic If you play a radio/cd License PPI House, 1 Corrig Avenue, Performance Ireland (PPI) instore Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin

Ph: 01 280 5977 www.ppiltd.ie

Office of the Data Protection If you hold patient Register Data Protection Commissioner, Commissioner medication records on Station Road, Portarlington, Co Laois

computer Ph: 1890 252 231 /057 868 4800 Fax: 057 868 4757 www.dataprotection.ie

Repak If you generate waste Register Repak Ltd, Red Cow Interchange Estate, above Government 1 Ballymount road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 thresholds Ph:01 467 0190 Fax: 01 467 0197

www.repak.ie

Revenue Commissioners Tax Employer/Employee/VAT Regional Offices Border/Mid-West 1890 777 425 South-West 1890 222 425 Dublin 1890 333 425 East/South-East 1890 444 425

www.revenue.ie

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Hot Press*Wednesday, 26 November 2014Page: 17


RICE TO PLAY OTHER VOICES

Hot Press cover star Damien Rice has been confirmed as one of the acts who's Dingle-bound before Christmas for the 13th - lucky for

some hopefully! - Other Voices bash. He'll be playing a tune or three from new album My Favourite Faded

Fantasy, which debuted last week at number one in Ireland and seven in the UK.

Taking place in and around St. James' Church, the first batch of participants also includes recent HP cover stars Delorentos, Mercury Music Prize winners Young Fathers and All We Are, a Liverpool trio featuring exiled Corkman Richard O'Flynn who went down a storm at the Electric Picnic.

There's a presentation double-header this year with Aidan Gillen joined for the duration by BBC Radio i's Huw Stephens.

Meanwhile, the search is on forthe final act to grace the IMRO Other Room, with acts of every musical hue invited to submit music

to othervoices.ie before November 27.

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Irish Examiner*Wednesday, 5 November 2014Page: 8


Royalties row sorted out I Radio Nova has sorted out its €47,000 shortfall in royalties with the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO), the Circuit Civil Court was told yesterday.

The radio station, which broadcasts from Castleforbes House, Castleforbes Rd, Dublin, had been sued by IMRO which protects copyright of songs and music for home-based and international singers, composers and musicians.

Barrister Una Cassidy, counsel for IMRO, told Judge Linnane that payments had now been brought up to date and the matter should no longer trouble the court.

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11/09/2014 00:00 | The Mail on Sunday-Eire

Media Source: PressPage: 14Author: Ben Haugh ; Warren Swords

Soundtrack joins Love/Hate hit-list

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Irish Music Annual*Thursday, 1 January 2015Page: 24,25


THE VIEW FROM THE CHAIR Sean Laffey talks to Keith Donald the Chairperson of IMRO.

eith Donald has an impressive music CV. It includes a list of some famous names in Irish and international music, here's one, Moving Hearts, but it also shows he has a keen

business brain, a music business brain in fact. IMRO is no small potato when it comes to an Irish company.

Listed in the top 1000 in the country, it is fit and very efficient. There are 51 employees, and it takes and in around €38 million a year in license fees, distributing about 85% of that back to its clients, songwriters, composers and music publishers. Around 13 cents in the Euro go towards the costs of the organisation, that's lean burn, it is a huge and continuing success story.

What of the Keith Donald back story? The 69 year old was born in Derry in 1945, into a musical family, his father was a banjo player and the young Keith's first performance was playing jazz on BBC radio aged 10! He fell in love with wind instruments, clarinet is his favourite, but he is most famous for playing the saxophone in Moving Hearts in the 1970's. Anyone who remembers seeing the Hearts live know they were high energy and had high ideals, something which Donald brings to his musical life to this day. He's been known to put his weight behind some good causes, and he is currently chair of Burma Action.

As a working musician Keith has known the ups and downs of trying to make a living in this most fickle of businesses. As a woodwind player he was once left in dire straits when he lost a tooth, he had nine months without work until he could afford dental treatment to get him back on the live circuit. That live circuit also held many temptations and Donald has talked candidly about his struggle with alcohol. He has not had a drink since 1991, has become a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, all positive life choices, all informed by peering into a black abyss. As Chair of IMRO he is well fitted to be an advocate for the creative forces in the industry, the song writers, the composers and publishers who rely on IMRO to collect their due rewards.

Sean “As a musician, do you have greater insight into the value of the work you do at IMRO?”

Keith “IMRO doesn't represent musicians; its members are the creators and publishers of music. So my work as a musician

doesn't specifically help. The sum total of all my experience certainly helps. I've been in bands since I was at school and have had many other roles along the way. I managed Moving Hearts and, briefly, Ronnie Drew; I've written music for films, plays and TV dramas and documentaries; I've been on the boards of the Music Centre, Temple Bar, the IBEC music group, the IRMA Trust, the MCPSI; I worked for the Arts Council for five years and ran MusicBase for a further five. It all helps.”

Sean “As chair of the organisation, can you describe your style?” Keith “Firstly, I have to point out that my role is not that of a

manager. IMRO has a very able and internationally respected CEO, Victor Finn, who does that. I chair the board. Think of an hour glass: one end is the staff of the company; the other is the board; the CEO and the Chair are placed in the narrow bit that joins them. Through the CEO and chair, all decisions and information flow. I try always to be open and straight. I try to be a good listener.”

Sean “What preparation did you have for the Chairperson's role?” Keith “My preparation for the role of Chair included all the

experience I mentioned previously. I attended courses in corporate governance in UCD.

I also have social science qualifications to post-grad level and the psychology and group dynamics components of those have been a help.”

Sean“What is your position in relation to policy at IMRO?” Keith “The board formulates policy in consultation with the

CEO. I have some input into that process and one of a Chair's functions is to ensure that board policies are carried out.”

Sean “What advisory structures are in place at IMRO to ensure that you are up to date with legal issues?”

Keith “First of all, one of our external directors, James Hickey, is a lawyer. Secondly, our company secretary, Emma Hickey is a professional and highly qualified company secretary. And whenever there are changes in legislation, we make sure we are kept abreast of them.”

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Sean “With an increasingly fragmented market place, with so many technologies and platforms over which music can be enjoyed, how do you keep track of it all?”

Keith “A hundred years ago, you had to be in the same room as the musicians and singers to enjoy music. Societies like IMRO have had to adapt to the advent of radio, recorded music, the long-playing record, television, the cassette tape, minidiscs, digital and the internet during that period. So we have proven flexibility. What has not kept up with today's technology is legislation.

This has enabled a generation to believe that music, like film, books, games and software is free. It may be free to the consumer via theft, but has a huge cost to produce: people's creativity, time and energy as well as the material costs of production. The expectation of access to the arts for free is a great challenge.”

Sean “What is your view of legitimate digitally delivered free music?”

Keith “The composers, artists, publishers and labels should be getting a larger share of the advertising revenue that generally

music (on paper or CD), in an envelope and mail it to yourself by registered post, remembering not to open it. Or put it in an envelope and give it to the family solicitors, asking them to record the date they received it.”

Sean “It is now 15 years since the agreement between CCE and IMRO. Is it still relevant and has it been a good exercise from IMRO's standpoint?”

Keith “CCE do invaluable work both on the island of Ireland and in many countries abroad. I've been to many of their functions and they have our full support.”

Sean “Finally, would you like to see a quota system for Irish music on Irish radio? I believe a similar system, ensuring airtime for indigenous music, exists in France and Canada. Is it a good model to adopt here?”

Keith “I'd love to see it but it's unfortunately impossible. It was a very successful initiative in Canada and is part of the reason for the success of their music industry.

I have investigated the status of EU law in this regard via legal experts in Brussels: Ireland would be forbidden from enacting

“A hundred years ago, you had to be in the same room as

the musicians and singers to enjoy music. Societies like

IMRO have had to adapt to the advent of radio, recorded

music, the long-playing record, television, the cassette

tape, minidiscs, digital and the internet during that period”

enables the consumer to access music at no apparent cost.”

Sean “Are there mechanisms in place with Internet Service Providers, to police illegal downloads?”

Keith “It's a topical issue.” (Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Warg had been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for hacking into computers and illegally downloading data files in Denmark the week before this interview.) “All over the world, the record industry and the ISPs are trying to find a way forward. It's in everyone's interests, the creators, the music industry and ultimately the consumers, that all piracy is stopped. If it isn't, creators will, sooner rather than later, be forced to become amateurs and music will suffer.”

Sean “What is the future for CD's?” Keith “Wall art? Collectors' items?

A limited market, like vinyl?”

Sean “What advice would you give to writers and composers about protecting their work?”

Keith “As soon as you can, join IMRO and register your work. Until then, put the

any legislation to enforce a quota system. France was able to, but only for Frenchlanguage

music. Secondly, part of the problem in Ireland

is the delivery of music to Irish radio stations.

Major record companies get their artists to radio via digital means, enabling the station presenter to quickly listen and get the track into their system for broadcast. However, Irish bands and solo artists record CD's, put them in jiffy bags and mail them. It's too time-consuming for busy presenters to hear, assess and load the music.

The Irish Association of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, IASCA, is working on a system for Irish artists that will hopefully level this particular playing field and make it easier both for artists and for radio.”

So there you have it, IMRO is on our side, the future is digital, get your radio edits to the stations in easily digestible files, and protect your provenance with an old school registered envelope.

If Europe won't allow its member states to introduce local cultural quotas, maybe that's something Enda Kenny and the arch Euro-sceptic David Cameron might bring up at their next meeting with Mrs Merkel?

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Irish Music Annual*Thursday, 1 January 2015Page: 52,53,54


TRADFEST TEMPLE BAR MORE THAN JUST A MUSIC FESTIVAL Dublin's biggest & best Festival of Irish Traditional & Folk music celebrates 10 years and takes place from January 28th - February 1st, 201 5.

TradFest Temple Bar offers festival goers a unique opportunity

to experience live music in some of Dublin's most historic places. The sweep and grandeur of Dublin's millennium

is on display every January. From the breathtaking nave of St Patrick's Cathedral to the elegant proportions of Dublin Castle and City Hall, TradFest is about marvel as well as music. Concertgoers

get to breathe-in Dublin's rich cultural heritage even as they feel every note...

Its 2015 line-up is shaping up to be one of the strongest and most eclectic yet, with a roll-call of trad legends and new artists who are reinventing their genres with acts including: Donovan, John Sheahan & Declan O'Rourke, Susan McKeown, Liam O'Flynn, Paddy Glackin, Neil Martin & Micheal O'Suilleabhain, Sweeney's Men, Levellers,The Undertones, Matt Molloy, John Carty & Arty McGlynn, Beoga & Big Band, Danu, Hothouse Flowers, Cara Dillon & Band, Coda, Mick Flannery, DeBarra, Irish Concertina Ensemble, Sean Lakeman & Kathryn Roberts, Karine Polwart, Eleanor McEvoy, Mundy, The The Kilkennys & The Dublin Legends.

As well as wonderful music concerts there is plenty of other fantastic events taking place over the 5 days of the festival to excite festival goers. The House of Lords on College Green

will house two very unique evenings; An Audience with Donovan & An Audience with John Sheahan with John Kelly. John Kelly is a sony award winning broadcaster and, since the late 1980's, he has presented some of the best-loved music programmes on the Irish airwaves. From his shows on the BBC to the legendary Eclectic Ballroom on Today FM and the PPI award winning Mystery Train on RTE1. Taking place in the intimate setting of the House of Lords these one-on-one interviews will be a revealing look back at Donovan and John Sheehan's lives in the music industry over the past 5 decades.

Born Donovan Philips Leitch in 1946, this folk-rock-pop troubadour exploded onto the scene in 1965 and went on to attain legendary status. This is a performer who can truly be regarded as a member of the British rock aristocracy. From folk to psychedelia through pop and back again, Donovan re-shaped the musical landscape with a rare individuality and utterly unique repertoire. His is an enviable back-catalogue that remains as relevant and vibrant today as any contemporary artist's with songs such as Jennifer Juniper, Mellow Yellow and Hurdy Curdy Man.

John Sheahan was a key member of the Dubliners for almost 50 years. Throughout his career he has been in steady demand as a studio musician, contributing to albums by, among others,

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Donovan

Kate Bush, Terence Trent D'Arby and Rod Stewart. Now at the including Louise Mulcahy, from Abbeyfeale in Co. Limerick a age of 75 John is starting a new chapter in his musical career. well-established performer and tutor on both flute and uilleann

TradFest will once again feature it's free series of concerts; pipes. Tuning The Road is Louise's recent debut solo album Front Row Sessions. Front Row Sessions is a unique event at featuring flute, uilleann pipes and whistle on which Matt TradFest featuring the very best in Irish music. Taking place in Molloy describes Louise as "one of the finest musicians of her the intimate setting of the bars of Temple Bar, festival goers generation”. Alongside three highly acclaimed album releases will get the chance to see top Irish acts including The Dublin with father, Mick, and sister Michelle, Louise appeared a number Legends, The Kilkennys, Eleanor McEvoy & Mundy with more of years ago on a compilation of young pipers entitled A New to be announced over the coming weeks. Dawn' released by Na Pfobairf Uilleann.

Sean Cannon, Patsy Watchorn, Eamonn Campbell & Gerry Leonard Barry has been described as one of Ireland's "best O'Connor are true legends of Irish folk music. Sean & Eamonn pipers, be it solo, duet and group playing” (tradconnect.com). were members of The Dubliners for close to 30 years while Born in Tralee, Co. Kerry and raised in Kilmoyley, ten miles Patsy joined “The Dubs” 10 years ago. Meanwhile Gerry was outside Tralee, Leonard started his musical journey at the age a member of the iconic Four Men & A Dog and has played of eight under the guidance of his Uncle Bert O'Brien. Leonard the banjo with everyone from Sharon Shannon to Shane gained an interest in the Uilleann pipes aged 15 after hearing

“Supported by IMRO TradFest will host a series of showcase concerts featuring some of the best

emerging traditional and folk acts in Ireland. IMRO will also present music and song writing

masterclasses with leading Irish musicians”

MacGowan. In 2012 The Dublin Legends were born. You can expect these trad stalwarts to bring out the big guns - Whiskey in The lar, Dirty Old Town, The Wild Rover, Seven Drunken Nights and The Rare Auld Times.

The Kilkennys are a band with a mission - to reinvigorate traditional Irish music and ballads and take them to a new generation. Over the past twelve years they have toured the length and breadth of Ireland gaining recognition as one of the country's hardest working bands. They have successfully re-introduced Irish folk and ballads to a young audience while also winning the hearts of the more seasoned traditional music

lovers. True cross-over artists! Eleanor McEvoy's live performances are intimate, emotional,

uplifting affairs in which she explores soul, love and humour, using own compositions and interpretations from other songbooks,

with her unique voice and beautiful playing. Irish singer/songwriter Mundy honed his craft busking on

the streets of Dublin before achieving major international success in the '90s. Hits and multi-platinum albums on his

own label followed during the next decade including hit singles /u/y, Mexico and Linchpin as well as Mundy's version of Steve Earle's song Galway Girl with Sharon Shannon.

The popular lunch-time concerts returns to Dublin City Hall, showcasing some of the best emerging traditional artists

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his Uncle's recordings of The Bothy Band and Planxty, that prompted Leonard to contact Dave Hegarty and get his first lessons in Tralee. Paddy Keenan and Liam O'Flynn quickly became a big influence on Leonard's piping, along with Finbar Furey. Other influences would be Leo Rowsome, Johnny Doran, Willie Clancy and Seamus Ennis. Whilst there wasn't a tradition of piping in North Kerry, Leonard's music was influenced by many of the other musicians he met in the Munster areaespecially

in Kerry. Fie has been described as a piper "with an eye for cut-glass detail, he etches out a tune with enviable precision.” (The Irish Times).

Hailing from County Sligo, lontas won Siansa Gael Linn 2014, the most prestigious award for young traditional music groups. All the musicians are under 17 years of age, but display a great maturity in both their playing and performance. They 'wow'ed the capacity audience who attended the Siansa Gael Linn final in the National Concert Hall in April last with their musicianship. Their repertoire includes traditional songs sung in English and Irish, along with both well-known and newly-composed tunes in the traditional genre. Some of their programme will include compositions by renowned musician, Michael Rooney, who mentors the group, lontas, comprising Tomas 6 Gabhain-flute/vocal, Shauna Nf Chuilinn- flute/

banjo/vocal, Conal Mac Cormaic-bodhran/whistle/vocal, Colm OTuathaigh- Button accordion/vocal, Sfofra N1 Ainle-Harp/ vocal, Dfilra Nf Ainle-Saxaphone/Piano/Fiddle/vocal, Orlaith Nf Chionnaith-concertina/Whistle/vocal and Stiofan 6

Maolagain-Fiddle/ vocal, look forward to presenting a vibrant selection of traditional music and song at their showcase concert in City Hall during TradFest.

Supported by IMRO TradFest will host a series of showcase concerts featuring some of the best emerging traditional and folk acts in Ireland. IMRO will also present music and song writing masterclasses with leading Irish musicians. Entry to both the Showcase Concerts and Masterclasses are free but due to limited capacity booking will be required.

The Gallery of Photography will host A Musical Family Photo Exhibition with Mairead Nf Mhaonaigh. Photo albums give a fascinating insight into our private and public histories. Photographs from family albums or private collections often reveal details about how people lived and worked those

official records overlook providing a rich photographic social history of Ireland and our musical tradition.This exhibition is a behind the scenes, more personal look at the life of one of Ireland's leading traditional musicians Mairead Nf Mhaonaigh.

Celebrating Tradition, a specially curated exhibition for

TradFest, presents a unique collection of newly released fine

art prints by Graphic Studio Gallery, demonstrating a plethora

of printmaking techniques, styles and themes which will focus on traditions - breaking them and creating new ones. Alongside the exhibition the gallery will host ‘Session in the Gallery’ with established artist Ruth O'Donnell and musician

Nick Roth, weaving together visual abundance and musical heritage. The session is the collaboration between Ruth and Nick, who will respond to each other's work in front of a live

audience. ‘Drypoint Workshop’ with artists Niamh Flanagan

and Clare Henderson will teach the fundamentals of drypoint printmaking and Chine Colie.

The Irish Film Institute will present a series of film screenings including the Irish premier of Curious Life - a film about the rise to fame of British group Levellers in the 1990's. Told through the unique perspective of Jeremy Cunningham, the band's bass player and artist, and directed by former Chumbawamba frontman Dunstan Bruce, the film focuses on the Levellers phenomenal success between 1988 and 1998 before they disappeared for a time. However, despite

reaching their lowest ebb, the band never split up and after a

few years in the wilderness they reinvented themselves as a

self-managing collective with their own studio, label and

Beautiful Days festival, and in the process became unexpected

survivors of the UK's famously fickle music industry. The

screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the film

Director Dunstan Bruce and members of the band (who will also perform an acoustic set in St Patrick's Cathedral during the festival).

Also showing is The Long Road to Glenties. In the early

1960's the folk singer and music collector Pete Seeger

(1919-2014) was a figurehead of the folk revival in America, known and respected as a performer, song writer and civil

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established and highly active Irish music organisation. Children can learn to play a tune on the fiddle, bodhran, harp, concertina, or any instrument at all, even non-traditional instruments are welcome. See The Song of the Sea Exhibition, print scenes of the new Irish animated fantasy film by Cartoon Saloon directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Tomm Moore, an enchanting story of Ben and Saoirse who live in a lighthouse by the sea with their father. Visit the free drop in Children's Craft Club. In partnership with the Crafts Council of Ireland,

children can do a variety of fun arts and crafts using their

imagination. Kfla will perform a special family concert at The Ark. A world music band mixing traditional with world influences and having lots of fun, Kfla have been hailed as one

of Ireland's most innovative and exciting bands. Kfla have created their own distinctive style of world music, which has

won over audiences around the world through their nine recordings to date and their spectacular live performances.

National Wax Museum Plus will get into the TradFest spirit with a very special children's Ceilf. The event will take place in the Children's World of enchantment where children will get

the chance to practice their Irish dancing moves with all their friends and family. National Wax Museum Plus resident Irish

dance enthusiast will be on hand to give those taking part some hints, tips and guidance.

Festival charity partner ChildVision, will once again return to TradFest. ChildVision in the heart of Drumcondra, Dublin, provides educational opportunities for Ireland's blind and partially

sighted children and young adults in a safe and nurturing environment. Children with vision impairment (some with additional multiple disabilities) can attend ChildVision from

as young as newborn all the way through to twenty-two years

“National Wax Museum Plus will get into the TradFest spirit with a very special children's Ceili. The

event will take place in the Children's World of enchantment where all the boys & girls will get the

chance to practice their Irish dancing moves with all their friends and family”

the Seegers visited Ireland, where they met and recorded some of

the brightest stars of the Irish folk music scene at the time.

But the Seegers had another reason for their Irish adventure, in May 1964 they travelled to rural southwest Donegal in search

of an altogether different individual; elusive folk music legend

John Doherty. Meeting in a caravan just outside the market

town of Glenties, the Seegers spent a day filming and interviewing Doherty with the help of his friend and patron Malachy McCloskey

and the English folk-music collector Peter Kennedy. This film

footage is a lasting memorial to the unique bond formed

between two musical figures that came from such different

worlds, yet had so much in common. This film event will

include an introduction by Danny Diamond and Dr Donal

Caulfield, both fiddlers, who will incorporate a short musical

performance of examples of Doherty's music. The TradFest Food Trail will take place over the weekend of

the festival, there will be 10 food outlets, where festival goers

can purchase taste tickets and sample Temple Bar's local

cuisine delights in locations that vary from pubs, hotels, cafes

to restaurants. Dublin City Hall will play host to the Siamsa Cois Life Family

Concerts featuring young people from music and dance schools from all over Ireland. While The Ark, A Children's Cultural

Centre will be the Festival Family Hub featuring 4 days of

trad music gigs, workshops and sessions for teachers, families

and children. Drop into the open trad seisium, especially for

children led by members of Ceoltoirf Chluain Tarbh, a long

of age, as residential or day students. For TradFest ChildVision will be packing up their cuddly and friendliest pets from their petting farm and bringing them onto the streets of Temple Bar.

In addition to all this there will be facepainters, street performers, marching pipe bands and a free music trail; guaranteeing

festival fun for everyone at TradFest 2015. For Full programme details visit www.templebartrad.com

rights activist. After a 25-year musical career dogged by political

persecution, he had emerged as a hero to a new generation

who shared his interest in folk music and progressive politics.

Buoyed by newfound success, Pete and his family embarked

upon a year-long world tour in 1963/64. As part of the tour

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Kerryman South*Wednesday, 19 November 2014Page: 7


Suzanne Ennis, of Tralee Credit Union with John O'Connor (left) and Bernard O’Connor of Tralee band Q14 at the launch of the Christie Hennessy Festival.

Tralee ready to rock at Hennessy tribute HUNDREDS of music fans are expected to pour into Tralee over the weekend for the annual Christie Hennessey Festival.

The Hennessy celebration takes place at Fels Point Hotel this Friday and Saturday November 21 and 22.

Now in its fourth year the festival, sponsored by Tralee Chamber Alliance, will provide a platform for new singer songwriters to showcase original material over two days.

The Troubadour Club led by Francie Conway return to kick-start the weekend on Friday night with performances by ten artists including Robert Delaney, Chapter 2, Fiach Moriarty, Gary Keane and Mickey Harte.

Bluesman Don Baker will perform as the special guest during the IMRO Christie Hennessy Song Contest Final on Saturday nigtht. There are also workshops and tech demos for musicians

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What’s On CLARE Bellbridge House Hotel, Spanish Point: Clare Festival of Traditional Singing, weekend

of singing workshops and informal sessions (Fri, 8pm, weekend ticket €30). Call 065-7084038. Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon: Blowing up a Storm - the Night of the Big Wind1839 and Current and Future Vulnerability, talk by Dr Kieran Hickey, NUIG (Mon, 8pm, €5). Call 086-3548078.

CORK Sample Studios, Sullivan’s Quay: dBheal Winter Warmer Festival Weekend featuring more than 20 poets, including Paula Meehan, Louis De Paor

10am-5 pm, free). Call 016633040.

Church Of The Three Patrons, Rathgar: An evening with Finbar Wright in aid of Kyuso Parish, Kenya (Fri, 8pm, €35). Call 01-4972215. [email protected]. Unitarian Church, 112 St Stephen's Green: Lecture, The Colour of Saying, Dylan Thomas at 100, celebrating the poet’s centenary, featuring Prof John Goodby, Maurice Scully, Twin Headed Wolf and others (Friday, 6pm, free, booking not required). Carmelite Community Centre, Whitefriar St: Annual literaryeveningofsongs, poems and stories presented by members of the Irish Christian Writers' Fellowship

and Mary Donnelly, plus Snatch Comedy Improv with poetry-related comedy themes, and Sawa-Le poetry theatre (Fri-Sat, free). Call 085- 7126299 Christchurch, Innishannon: Concert in aid of ScoilEoin nationalschool featuring soprano Orla Fogarty, tenor DanTwomey, Glaslinn choir, children’s choir Cor Scoil Eoin and the Melodies Trio string ensemble (Fri, 8pm, €15). Call 086- 1909651. Waterstones Bookshop: Book signing and talk by author Colm Keane on his new book Heading For the Light: Ten Things That Happen When You Die (Tues, 7pm, free). Call 0214276522.

DUBLIN Stella Maris, Beresford Place: Lecture, The History of the Irish Navy, by T erry Cummins (today, 8pm, donation). Call 087-9007466. Aras Chron£in, Watery Lane, Clondalkin: The Pawn and the Castle - Anne Devlin, lecture by Micheal 6 Doibhilin (Mon, 8pm, €5). Call 086-2616533. Pembroke Library, Anglesea Rd, Ballsbridge: Lecture, Local War Memorials, Michael Pegum, with Ballsbridge, Donnybrook and Sandymount Historical Societies (Wed, lpm, free). Call 087-6483388. Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Sq: Exhibition celebrating the US Embassy building at 50 (today-Friday,

(Fri, 7.30pm-9.15pm, small chargefortea and biscuits). Call 01-4549237. Library Project, 4Temple Bar: Apres Paris, a night dedicated to contemporary photography with a special focus on Paris' photographic events during November around Paris Photo (Sat, 6pm, €5). Call 087-6856169. Ely House, 8 Ely Place: The Cosmic Microwave Background

- New Views of the Early Universe, talk by Dr Creidhe

O'Sullivan, Department of Physics, Maynooth University, with the Irish Astronomical Society (Mon, 8pm, free). Call 087-2433506. National Library of Ireland, Kildare St: Dublin at War 1914-1918, Tommy Graham of History Ireland editor and guests in panel discussion on (T ues, 7pm, free). Call 01-6030200. Doyles Public House, 9 College St: Table quiz by Action Aid for Ebola-affected communities in Sierra Leone and Liberia (today, 7:30pm, €40 per team of four). Call 01-8787911. Family Recreation Centre, Kilmore Rd, Artane: Roses, talk by Laddie de Jong of Marion Nurseries, with Dublin Five Horticultural Society. Tea, biscuits and a raffle of garden items (today, 8pm, €5). Call

I 087-2423020. St Anne's Resource Centre, Dublin Road, Shankill: St

Anne's Parish Christmas Fair (Sun, 10.30am-3pm, free). Call 01-282 2704. Foxrock Pastoral Centre, Kill Lane: Talk by Keith WiLey, Wildside - taking naturalistic planting to a new level, for Foxrock & District Garden Club (Tues, 8pm, €7). Call 086-863 5343.

GALWAY Kenny Gallery, Liosban Retail Park, Tuam Rd: Scenes from a Disembodied Past, exhibition of figurative paintings

by Bernard Canavan on Ireland, its people and identity, opens Fri with guestspeaker poet Kevin Higgins (Fri-Weds, free). Call 091-709350.

LOUTH Highlanes Gallery, Laurence St, Drogheda: Exhibition of paintings, Holes, by Tracy Hanna (until Jan 17). Call 041-980-3311

KERRY Fels Point Hotel, Tralee: A Celebration Of Christie Hennessy, gathering of songwriters (Fri, Troubadour Club, featuring 10 artists, 8pm, €5; Sat, IMRO Christie Hennessy

Songwriter Contest Fina 8pm, €5). Call 066-7121472.

LIMERICK Room 116, Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Rd: The Elizabethan Undertakers of Limerick, talk by Joseph Lennon, with Thomond Archaeological Society (Mon, 8pm, free). Call 087-6979163. St Mary's Cathedral, Bridge St: Lunchtime recital by flautist Louise Sheehan and pianist Michael Young, programme

includes Poulenc's Sonata, and also music by Reinecke and Piazolla (Wed, 1.15pm, free). Call 061-310293.

MAYO Custom House Studios, Westport Quay: Exhibition of paintings, Stations of the Cross Drawings, by Evie Hone from the Irish-American Cultural Institute's O'Malley Collections of 20th century Irish art at the University of Limerick (until Dec 6, free). Call 098-28735

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MEATH St Mary's Church of Ireland Hall, Navan: Lecture, National Volunteers and Irish Volunteers

in Meath, September 1914 to April 1916 by Ruth Illingworth with Meath A&H Society (Wed, 7.30pm, free). Call 01-8259438.

TIPPERARY Source Arts Centre Cathedral St, Thurles: The Importance of Being Wilde, play on the life and career of Oscar Wilde (Fri, 8pm, €18/ €15/€12). Call 0504- 90204. Eagle's Nest Public House, Dolla: Book launch, Mining the Past, by local historian Donal A Murphy with Silvermines Historical Society (Fri, 8.30pm, free). CaLL 086-3680084. Bernard Canavan, Mary’s Cafe, from a new exhibition at the

Kenny Gallery. See GaLway WEXFORD Gorey Shopping Centre, The Avenue: Goreycreative Fair featuring more than 30 stands of Irish handcrafts (Sat, 11am, free). Call 087-6263463.

WICKLOW Chamber of Commerce House, 10 Prince of Wales Tee, Quinsboro Rd, Bray: The Theatre Royal, Dubiin, lecture by Conor Doyle with the Bray Cualann Historical Society (today, 8pm, €4). Call 01-2862685. The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely: Paintings by Rod Coyne, My Place on Canvas, featuring views of the Wicklow landscape (launch Sun, 4pm-6pm, by Stephen Donnelly

TD, free). Call 0402-38529.

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what'son YOUR GUIDE TO EVENTS IN DERRY FRIDAY NOV 21ST

MOJITA NIGHT: Takes place in Roundy’s Bar, Tralee, eveiy night from 6pm. FASHION AT BROOK LANE: Fashion

at Brook Lane Kenmare, will take place this Friday. Guests will enjoy a prosecco & festive themed canape buffet on arrival; salon styled fashion show featuring top fashion designers, milliners and boutiques, best dressed lady, and post show entertainment till late.

There will also be a raffle with all proceeds to the Kenmare Special Needs. Fashion at Brook Lane is the place to both discover what is on trend for you for the Christmas season and to start the celebrations

in style. Tickets are only €35 and are also sold out For more information call Brook Lane Hotel, Kenmare on (064) 664 2077. ON STAGE: Camp Drama Group are on stage at the CYMS, Killorglin this Friday with the play A Wake in the West. The night is also a fundraiser for the Killorglin Family Resource Centre. Show starts at 8pm. CEILI: 1(110001/5 Countiy House, Ballybunion will host a great evening of local trad music and dance, this Friday from 9pm11pm.

A CELEBRATION OF CHRISTIE HENNESSY: Will take place at the Fels Point Hotel, Tralee, this Friday and Saturday. The Troubadour

Club, presented by Francie Conway, will perform this Friday at

8pm. Saturday at 12pm: Songwriting Workshop with Mickey Harte

and at 8pm IMRO Christie Hennessy Song Contest Final will take

place. CHRISTMAS BALL A Christmas Ball with Latin Twist will take place at the Heights Hotel Killamey at 7.30pm. Ticket €35 including a mulled wine reception, 4-course dinner and dance bll you drop with DJ Nat and DJ Judy. Party only ticket

€10 (admission after 10pm). All welcome!

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