Aug 29 2012

Music Under The Mountains 2012 Line-Up

Music Under The Mountains 2012 kicks off on Friday September 21st and promises to be a weekend packed full of craic with sessions, gigs and workshops spread throughout the weekend!

—– Friday September 21st —–

+++ Evening +++

Session featuring Breton Musicians (Brittany)

Tom Lemmonier (Guitar),
Jaouen Le Goic (Accordion)
Benoit Volant (Fiddle)
Venue: Tutty’s Bar
Session featuring The Kings River Band
Venue: Hollywood Inn

—– Saturday September 22nd —–

+++ Morning +++

Workshops:

Fiddle Workshop by Tommy Peoples

Mandolin Workshop by Paul Kelly

Time: 11am – 1pm
Venue: Hollywood Centre

+++ Afternoon +++

Portherhead & Friends
Venue: Tutty’s Bar

Breton Musicians (As Friday)
Venue: Hollywood Inn

+++ Evening +++

Tommy Peoples (Fiddle) & Laoise Kelly (Harp)
Time: 8PM
Venue: St.Kevin’s Heritage Centre, Hollywood
Admission: €10

—– Sunday September 23rd —–

+++ Afternoon +++

Singing Session (Host t.b.c.)
Venue: Tutty’s Bar

Session in Tutty’s hosted by Breton Band (As Friday)

Session in Hollywood Inn hosted by Portherhead & Friends

+++ Evening +++

–Danny & Aki–

Danny Diamomd (Fiddle)
Aki (Accordion)
Time: 5.30PM
Venue: Hollywood Fair Ceilí House
Admission: €5
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Aug 19 2011

Music Under The Mountains 2011: 23rd to 25th September


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Started with the aim of promoting traditional music in Hollywood and the West Wicklow area in general, the Music Under the Mountains Festival has been held every year since 1991 so this will be its 20th. Anniversary. The Music Under the Mountains festival supports the Laura Greaves Bursary music school which provides lessons in various traditional musical instruments for children in Hollywood and surrounding villages.

The program for this year, yet to be finalised, will include:

Friday 23rd. September
Album launch by Jig away the Donkey Gerry O’Connor (Fiddle)
Martin Quinn (Accordion)
Gabriel McCardle (Concertina & Vocals)

Saturday 24th. September
Musical Workshops in community centre (to be announced)

St. Kevins Church 8.30 p.m.
Alyth & Triona
Alyth McCormack (Vocals)
Triona Marshall (Harp)

Sunday 25th. September Morning singing session hosted by Kevin Conneff

Evening concert with I Draw Slow

Also featured in this years line-up, final details on Festival program.

Na Faderlings
Cian O Sullivan (Flute)
Tony Burke (Bazouky & Vocals)

Plus
Michelle O Brien and friends

Sep 27 2010

Music under the Mountains 2011 photographs

Unfortunately I missed a lot of the concerts this year, so if anyone has some good shots of the weekend please do send them in via this email >>>





Saturday night’s concert was held in the parlor of Tutty’s house adjacent to the pub – a beautiful old-style room that was ideal for the music of Josephine Marsh & Mick Kinsella.





Happy birthday to CJ

Sep 8 2010

2010 line up for Music under the Mountains festival of traditional music

Friday 24th

9.00 pm Hollywood Inn

Alyth McCormack (vocal) & Triona Marshall (harp)

Saturday 25th

10.30 am Hollywood Inn

Workshops with Michelle O’Brien (fiddle), Peter Browne (accordion) & Gavin Whelan (whistle)

2.00 pm Hollywood Inn

Gavin Whelan Band

3.00 pm Tutty’s

Session led by Steve Larkin (fiddle), Kevin Rowsome (pipes) & Mick Kinsella (harmonica)

9.00 pm Hollywood Inn

Josephine Marsh (accordion) & Mick Kinsella (harmonica)

Sunday 26th

12.30 pm Tutty’s

Singing session hosted by Phil Callery

8.00 pm Tutty’s

Michelle O’Brien (fiddle), Peter Browne (accordion) & Eugene Quinn (guitar & banjo)


Sep 21 2009

Michelle O’Brien, Peter Brown, and Paul Meehan

A full-house on Sunday night in Tutty’s for the closing gig featuring Michelle O’Brien (on fiddle), Peter Brown (on accordian & guitar), and Paul Meehan (on guitar & banjo) made taking pictures difficult and necessitated snatching shots from between bodies & over shoulders, but the pace & intensity of the tunes and the impact they had on the audience would have been impossible to capture anyway.



(No tune called Maid at the swimming pool was played during this performance, despite the influence of Florida on Peter’s mind)


Paul playing Liz Carrol’s The Island of Woods

Sep 21 2009

Alyth McCormack

Alyth McCormack, from the Isle of Lewis, led the Sunday afternoon singing session in Tutty’s (seated beside Kevin Conneff, with whom she has performed with many times in the Chieftains). A superb communicator & story teller, as well as a delicate, honest & moving singer, Alyth held the room still with her voice while both talking and singing.






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Sep 21 2009

Buille

Buille – on a high of anticipation about Armagh’s (since realised) chances of All Ireland victory the next day – polished off Saturday night at the Ardenode with their thrilling, precise, intense & always catchy layering of traditional music (most of which were composed by one Vallely or another, it seemed) with bluesy, jazzy and even pop-like licks.