Our next session will be at 9 pm on Thursday, 4 February in the Abbey Tavern
with Stiofán Ó hAoiláin and
Special Guest Aodán Ó Cealaigh, a terrific young singer from An Rinn, Co. Waterford.
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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.
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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
IRISH SONGS AND POEMS……… AND CD LAUNCH
Thursday, 1 October in Abbey Tavern at 8pm
A presentation in song, poetry and pictures of
‘Irish Songs & Poems
from the First World War’
as performed in City Hall and the National Museum of Ireland
featuring
Luke Cheevers, Brian Doyle, Robert Kelly, Niamh Parsons,
Ann Riordan & Fergus Russell
Followed by monthly Singing Session
‘War & Peace’
and Howth launch of the inimitable Luke Cheevers’ new CD,
‘It’s Just Me Saggin’ Shelf’
all welcome, €4
SINGING THE FISHING
at the Sea Angling Club, West Pier
on Saturday July 18th from 3 – 6
Hosted by HSC and An Goilin
all proceeds go to St. Francis Hospice
Thank you for your support this year, please let us have any suggestions for improving things – howthsingingcircle@gmail.com
Next regular session will be in September
APRIL – NEW VENUE – THE LOFT, ABBEY TAVERN
Our next monthly session is on Thursday, 3 April but in the new venue of THE LOFT, ABBEY TAVERN.
Our theme is If Ever You Go taken from the current UNESCO One City, One Book of the same title published by Dedalus Press and providing a ‘map of Dublin in poetry and song’. We hope to have copies available on the night and more than one HSC regular has a poem in the collection. The move to the Abbey is experimental.
The night will be led by THEO DORGAN and FRANCY DEVINE
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