Samhradh, Samhradh! – Summer 2010! (21/07/10)

I just realized that I haven’t been updating my webpage as I have been too busy! In the studio at the moment with T with the Maggies to record a new album and having such a great and fruitful time! 11 tracks down do far, not bad for a few days work!

Manus Lunny and I are talking of making a new recording starting as soon as this project is finished, so I will keep you posted!

Altan are very busy this summer. We are just back from Italy where we played a lovely concert with a local Italian orchestra in Bobbio, where the Irish monk St. Columbanus had a monastery and is buried.

I will be playing a solo gig here in Co. Donegal on August 7th as part of the Kilcar Festival, and the wonderful Mark Kelly will be accompanying me on that night! The Mary from Dungloe festival opens this Saturday and I have been given the honour to do the opening, so that should be good fun!

Altan will be playing the Buncrana Festival this Sunday 25th July, on the Guinness Rig, Shore Front.

I am looking forward to the Leonard Cohen concert in Lissadell before heading to Italy again with Donal Siggins, Emer Mayock and Steve Larkin, wonderful musicians! Altan then head to Spain and finish in Bilbao on the 25th of August, a fantastic city!

So it’s non stop, ach tá an saol go maith!

Mairéad x

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