Niamh Parsons

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October Zoom Session

Our next virtual session is on

Thursday 7th October 2021

Female Pirates and Songs of the Sea

Hosted by Niamh Parsons

Zoom codes from rioann@gmail.com

“It’s of a pretty female as you may understand,

Her mind being bent for rambling into some foreign land.

She dressed herself in sailor’s clothes or so it does appear,

And she hired with a captain to serve him for a year.”

All Welcome!

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Howth Singing Circle & Cork Singers’ Club

Singing Session for Hospice

Bean agus Fear an Tí

Niamh Parsons & Jim Walsh

all proceeds to St Francis Hospice, Raheny

& Marymount Hospice, Cork

Saturday, 26 June 2021 at 8pm

event by Zoom & live on Facebook

to book a Zoom place contact

rioann@gmail.com or baldtiler@yahoo.ie

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Howth Virtual Burns Nicht 2121

Concert

Saturday 23 January from 8pm

Open Zoom Singing Session

Sunday 24 January 3-6  

Both events by Zoom and streamed live on Facebook 

HSC Facebook

Suggested donations €5-€10 for each event

Paypal.me BURNS NICHT

Zoom places are limited

To book a place contact rioann@gmail.com

A Burns Nicht Brochure is available as a PDF here below

Burns Programme 2021

Those appearing at the concert which will feature music, song, the piping in of a haggis and poetry will be

Paul & Shona Anderson, Steve Byrne, Mairi Campbell, Tim Dennehy, Francy Devine, Morag Dunbar, David Francis, Scott Gardiner, Gilly Hewitt, Caoimhe Hogarty, Jimmy Hutchison, John Kelly Band (John Kelly, Larry Egan, Mick Mullen), Noel Kelly, Helen Lahert, Kirsteen McCue, Daire Ó Baoill, Dave O’Connor, Liam O’Connor, Niamh Parsons & Graham Dunne, Alan & Carole Prior, Ann Riordan, Gary West

For a’ that, an’ a’ that, / It’s coming yet for a’ that,
That Man to Man, the warld o’er, /Shall brithers be for a’ that

 

 

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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’.

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Nollaig na mBan 2019

Howth Singing Circle – January Session

‘Nollaig na mBan’

Fisher lassies in Pittenweem, Fife

with

Niamh & Anne Parsons 

Thursday, 3 January

at 9pm, Abbey Tavern

All welcome ….musicians, singers and listeners welcome 

‘Bhí fuinneamh sa stoirm a éalaigh aréir, / Aréir Oíche Nollaig na mBan,

As gealt-teach iargúlta atá laistiar den ré / Is do scréach tríd an spéir chughainn ‘na gealt

Seán Ó Riordáin, ‘Oíche Nollaig na mBan’

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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

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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

 

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APRIL 2016

New HSC

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.