Howth Singing Circle
proudly present Scotland’s Top Traditional Band
MALINKY
with Scots Singer of the Year 2015 Fiona Hunter
Howth Singing Circle
APRIL 2016
HSC April session
Thursday 7th April
Easter Snows – songs of April and Easter
hosted by Niamh Parsons
9 pm Abbey Tavern, Howth.
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/songs/cmc/easter_snow_jlyons.htm
This night will also feature the inauguration of the HSC’s first President! So come along and pay tribute to a HSC stalwart!
Friday, 8 April – HSC singers will do a spot at the Howth-Sutton-Baldoyle 1916 night singing songs from 1916 – event starts at 8pm
Saturday, 9 April – we sing in the Sutton Methodist Church Singathon for the Hospice – our slot starts at 1.30. Details on Thusrday or from Ann Riordan – rioann@gmail.com
Lastly, thanks to all who made Fidil Bus a Trí to Glenties – what a wonderful weekend with exquisite music from Donegal, Ireland generally, Scotland and Brittany.
March 4th 2016
HSC 4th March 2016 at 8 pm
SPECIAL GUEST
AUDIO VISUAL PRESENTATION by Dónal Maguire
on
‘THE FORGOTTEN HERO – MICHAEL DAVITT”
Dónal Maguire, traditional singer, originally from Drogheda but now living in Haslingden, Lancashire, which was
the place where Michael Davit lost his arm in a factory accident – Michael Davitt is the subject of a film and CD by Dónal
After the formal presentation, a normal monthly singing session will take place.
All welcome and please pass on notice – and again please note the earlier time of 8 pm.
New ‘Sweet Nightingale’ Magazine
There is a new ‘Sweet Nightingale’ available
https://howthsingingcircle.com/sweet-nightingale/
Burns Nicht 2016 is on Saturday, 23 January in the Abbey Tavern from 8pm with Special Guests Daimh and the St Lawrence Howth Pipe Band.
Tickets are twenty euro and booking is essential.
Phone: Abbey Tavern (01) 839 0307
On Sunday 24 January, from 3-6, we have the Fare Thee Weel Session in the Angling Club.
Happy New Year – next session 7th Jan 2016
Thank you to all who have supported HSC throughout 2015 and peace and health to you for 2016.
Laurence Bond leads our next session on Thursday, 7 January at 9pm in the Abbey Tavern with ‘All the Flowers of the Forest’.
Burns Nicht 2016 is on Saturday, 23 January in the Abbey Tavern from 8pm with Special Guests Daimh and the St Lawrence Howth Pipe Band.
Tickets are twenty euro and booking is essential.
On Sunday 24 January, from 3-6, we have the Fare Thee Weel Session in the Angling Club.
Christmas Special
Howth Singing Circle Christmas Special
‘Sing His Thimbleful of Glee …’
with Special Guest TIM DENNEHY
Abbey Tavern
Thursday, 10 December, 2015
9pm sharp
All singers, musicians and listeners welcome
Copies of Ruth Clinton’s This Fearless Maid available (five euro)
and
Tickets for
Howth Burns Nicht 2016 – ‘Twas in Sweet Senegal with Special Guests Daimh (twenty euro)
and a free raffle
If you are unable to make it, thank you for your support throughout 2015 – peace and health for 2016
A chairde
Next Thursday in the Abbey Tavern at 9pm Ann Riordan hosts a special night for the HSC.
Singer and collector Jane Cassidy (Belfast) will launch Howth Singing Circle’s Young Singer in Residence Ruth Clinton’s “This Fearless Maid”, a booklet of songs recovered and annotated by Ruth. The songs, written before 1950, feature women in unusual and different ways than in many songs where women feature as unrequited lovers, grieving mothers or sweethearts, or as objects of desire. We are proud of Ruth’s diligence, imagination and meticulous research that has produced a special publication. She will sing some of the songs on the night.
So, please come along and celebrate the conclusion of our first Young Singer in Residence project and support Ruth in her endeavours.
May we also take this opportunity to thank so many of you who came along to make the Martyn Wyndham-Read and Gatehouse concert such a memorable night. A standing ovation speaks volumes but all the artists commented on the warmth and knowledgeable support they felt coming from the large attendance. From all at the HSC, sincere thanks to you all
Harvest Time
The next Howth Singing Circle will be on
Thursday, 3 September, 2015 at 9pm sharp
in the Abbey Tavern, Howth
with Eugene McEldowney & Ann Riordan:
‘Who Will Thrash the Corn?’, an evening of songs for Harvest Time
We ask you to please bring along an item(s) for a Harvest Basket. We will raffle the Basket during the evening.
June 2015
200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo
The next HSC will be on Thursday next 4 June at 9pm sharp
DOWNSTAIRS in The Abbey Tavern
Terry Moylan from Na Piobairi Uilleann – The Pipers’ Club will lead a night of songs
remembering the Battle of Waterloo
‘HE WENT THROUGH THE LOWLANDS LIKE THUNDER …’
Here is the Howth June notice for the event and also Terry Moylans song sheet – which at the end carries some HSC Club news. It would help if you could print off Song Sheets and bring them with you – or at least those songs you might sing. We will run some off but it is a bumper edition!
Finally, please forward this notice and its attachments to friends and those you feel would be interested.
Terry is expert in this field and it will be a very good night.
Thank you for your support
THE BIRDSONG PROJECT
A chairde
HSC meets Thursday, 7th May, at 9pm in the Abbey Tavern
as part of the Birdsong Project
http://www.thebirdsongproject.com/Home.html
which is a traditional song project by Aileen Lambert and Michael Fortune
commissioned for Bealtaine by Age and Opportunity and support by
The National Library of Ireland and the Irish Traditional Music Archive
Our theme is titled: “To Hear the Nightingale Sing” songs with birds,
hosted by Anne and Niamh Parsons.
Look forward to seeing and hearing you all – and please feel free to pass on this notice to friends.
