Howth Singing Circle
Oíche Ghaelach
Our next evening is Thursday 23rd July 2020 at 8 pm – via Zoom
Our guest will be Clíona Ní Ghallachóir.
To receive notification of the link and password please send your details to oichegaelach2020@gmail.com
Hosted by Daire Ó Baoill & Eilín Ní Bhaoill
Oíche Ghaelach
Aoi speisialta: Clíona Ní Ghallachóir
Láithreoirí: Daire Ó Baoill & Eilín Ní Bhaoill
Déardaoin, 23ú Iúil 2020Seisiún Fíorúil ar ZOOM – 8 a Chlog
Le Clárú (nasc & pasfhocal), seol r-phost chuig: oichegaelach2020@gmail.com
Fáilte roimh Chách!
May 2020
Our latest Sweet Nightingale Magazine is available now
https://howthsingingcircle.com/sweet-nightingale/
The Silence of Covid 19
- For singers and musicians, the Lockdown imposed by Covid 19 means no sessions. Howth Singing Circle is in abeyance until precautions are eased and it is safe to reassemble to enjoy each other’s company and songs. There are, of course, many Zoom sessions being held and you can both tune in and enjoy some singing or you can seek to participate yourself. We are aware of Zoom sessions being promoted by Bray, An Góilín, The Night Before Larry Got Stretched and The Sunflower, Belfast, and would recommend them to you. There is also a Cancelled Singing Sessions FB page. Many musicians are also hosting events online – either as live sessions or recordings. Those who earn their living from performance are, like many others in different walks of life, suddenly bereft of income. You can help by contributing by purchasing artists’ material that is available through Bandcamp and other hosting platforms, direct from a favourite artist’s web or Facebook page where recordings can be sourced, or by showing your appreciation of online sessions like those held each Friday by our old friends Paul and Shona Anderson.
- We have been putting some recordings up on the Howth Singing Circle Facebook pages inviting you to enjoy artists like Niamh Parsons and Graham Dunne or Tony Fitzpatrick and to support their recordings. Of course, many hundreds of thousands are taking financial hits but for the vast majority of musicians, their income, even in good economic times, is precarious and erratic.
- If there is anything else you feel you would like Howth Singing Circle to do, please let us know.
- Until we can resume our normal activities, we salute our health care and other front-line workers for everything they are doing on all our behalf. Stay safe everyone.
March 2020
Spring Marching
Fear an Tí – Brian Doyle
& Guest Mick Cantwell (accordion)
Thursday, 5 March
Abbey Tavern, 9pm sharp
all welcome – musicians, singers and listeners
‘And that’s what we mean when we say that a thing
Is welcome as flowers that bloom in the spring.
Tra la la la la la, la’
February 2020
Howth Singing Circle – Oíche Gaelach
With Special Guest
Máire Ní Choilm
Maire with the Corn Uí Riada Cup, 2019
Fear an Tí – Daire Ó Baoill
Thursday, 6 February
Abbey Tavern, 9pm sharp
all welcome – musicians, singers and listeners
‘A ógánaigh óig dá siúlfá an ród liom / Ba deas do lóistín is do leaba luí
Bheadh fliúit is orgán ag seinm ceoil duit / A thógfadh an brón seo go léir ód’ chroí.’
The latest edition of our magazine Sweet Nightingale is now available
https://howthsingingcircle.com/sweet-nightingale/
January 2020 HSC
Howth Singing Circle – January Session 2020
‘Spilling the Behans …’
Fir an Tí – Tony McGaley & Gerry O’Connor
Three in a Row – Dara Yeates
Thursday, 9 January
at 9pm, Abbey Tavern, Howth
All welcome – musicians, singers and listeners
‘As down the glen came McAlpine’s men / With their shovels slung behind them ‘Twas in the pub they drank the sub /And up in the spike you’ll find them
They sweated blood and they washed down mud / With pints and quarts of beer And now we’re on the road again / With McAlpine’s fusiliers’
Burns Nicht tickets will be available on the night – €20 each
Sat 25 January, Abbey Tavern, 8-12.30 with The Tannahill Weavers, St Lawrence Howth Pipe Band, John Kelly & Friends, George Duff & the Howth Singing Circle Shanty Singers!
Sun 26 January, Abbey Tavern, 3-6, Fare Thee Weel Session with George Duff (Edinburgh)
Booking for Burns Nicht is essential
HSC Christmas Night 5th December 2019
HOWTH SINGING CIRCLE CHRISTMAS SESSION
‘From Dawn ‘Til Setting Sun’
With Special Guest – Tim Dennehy
Bean agus Fear an Tí – Ann Riordan agus Laurence Bond
Thursday, 5th December 2019 At 8.30
Abbey Tavern, Howth
Free Christmas Raffle
All welcome, singers, musicians, listeners.
‘So leave the door upon the latch, and set the fire to sleep,
and prey they’ll rest with us tonight when all the world’s asleep.
Don’t blow the tall white candle out but leave it burning bright,
So that they know they’re welcome here this holy Christmas Night’
7th November 2019
Howth Singing Circle – November Session
Women’s Songs
with Helen Lahert & Niamh Parsons
Thursday, 7 November
at 8.30pm, Abbey Tavern
all welcome – musicians, singers and listeners
‘There’s coopers there an curers there an buyers, canny chiels
An lassies at the picklin an ithers at the creels
An you’ll wish the fish had been a’ left in the sea
By the time you finish guttin herrin on the Yarmouth quay’.
October 2019 UPDATE
Howth Singing Circle –October Session
Due to weather forecast the October session has been unfortunately cancelled, and will be rescheduled at a later date.
Special Guest – Liam O’Connor
Thursday, 3 October
at 8.30pm, Abbey Tavern
The night begins with Liam giving a presentation on –
‘The Work of the Irish Traditional Music Archive’
All welcome – musicians, singers and listeners – Please note earlier start time.
‘With shut eyes, we tapped our feet
to ‘The Frightened Policeman’,
‘The Raked Fire’ and the Killanéd Waltz’,
marvelling as a wax cylinder was re-wound …’
New edition of Sweet Nightingale.
Our latest Sweet Nightingale is available to read here – scroll down for earlier editions.
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