Abbey Tavern
2018 Howth Burns Nicht
SOLD OUT
HSC proudly presents
Howth Burns Nicht
Saturday, 20 January at 8-12.30 in the Abbey Tavern with Special Guests Robyn Stapleton (Stranraer), Kristan Harvey (Orkney) and Alistair Patterson (Glasgow); St Lawrence Howth Pipe Band; and many others.
Fare Thee Weel Session, Sunday 21 January, 3-6.
Demand this year is huge with well over a third of tickets already sold – so please book your tickets now through the usual channels.
January 2018 – Nollaig na mBan
Howth Singing Circle – January Session
‘Songs for Nollaig na mBan’
Bean an Tí – Niamh Parsons
Three in a Row – Graham Dunne (Guitar)
Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 9pm
Abbey Tavern
all musicians, singers & listeners welcome
Admission €4
‘The only thing better than singing is more singing’, Ella Fitzgerald
November 2017
Howth Singing Circle – November Session
‘Contagious to the Nile …’ –
Dublin Comic Songs
photographs courtesy Colm Keating
with Tom Finn & Tony McGaley
Three in a Row – Barry Gleeson
Thursday, 2 November at 9pm
Abbey Tavern
all musicians, singers & listeners welcome
‘Music washes away from the soul the dust of every day life’,
Berthold Auerbach
10th Annual Dinner
with Special Guest Daoirí Farrell
Thursday, 23 November at 7 o’clock sharp
Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth
€35 per person, three course meal
bookings to
Ann Riordan – 086 778 8822 or Finola Young – 086 609 7107
payments to Howth Singing Circle,
55 Evora Park, Howth, County Dublin D13 DC43
as restaurant needs notice of numbers
please book as early as possible
October 2017
Our October session on Thursday, 5 October
in the Abbey Tavern, at 9 pm
with two fine young singers –
Feilimí O’Connor & Stuart Carolan.
Hosted by Cathal Caufield and Francy Devine.
Here is a video of Stuart –
Hope to see and hear you there
September Harvest Songs
We’re back after the summer break on
THURSDAY 7th SEPTEMBER AT 9PM
ABBEY TAVERN, HOWTH
with HARVEST SONGS
hosted by Laurence Bond and Ann Riordan (pictured above from last year)
Please join us
and if you can, bring something for the Harvest Basket
which will be raffled on the night.
In remembrance of regular Declan Fay, who sadly died in the summer, here’s a song he would have sung at the Harvest session – Kris Drever with a song written by Boo Hewerdine, Harvest Gypsies, which was the title of a slim book by John Steinbeck detailing the plight of migrant workers in Depression-era California.https://youtu.be/56grtNzsRq8
June 2017
Howth Singing Circle monthly session
…….as part of Howth Trad Fest…..
Songs of Howth
We’re hoping to have some of the old faces from the Pier House Days
Thursday 1 June
Mna an Tí
Niamh Parsons & Siobhán Moore
Abbey Tavern at 9pm sharp
all musicians, singers, listeners welcome
4th May 2017
Songs of Defiance
Thursday 4 May
Mna an Tí
Caoimhe Hogarty & Aoife Dermody
Abbey Tavern at 9pm sharp
all musicians, singers, listeners welcome
April 6th
From the Land of the Maple Leaf
– Canadian Songs & Stories
Howth Singing Circle 