Christy Chat

Dear Listeners Some New gigs for your consideration. Full details on the Gig Page on the website … Friday February 20th 2015 – Mullingar Park Hotel – on sale October 30th Thursday February 26th 2015 – Riverside Park Hotel, Enniscorthy – on sale October 30th Friday March 6th 2015 – Clonmel Park Hotel – on

Here are some dates, recently confirmed, for your consideration December Wednesday 10th           Christy with Máirtín O’Connor band – Ardilaun Hotel, Galway – now on sale Monday 22nd                Christy with Declan – Vicar St. Dublin – on sale Thurs Oct 9th Tuesday 23rd                Christy with Declan – Vicar St. Dublin – on sale Thurs Oct 9th Monday

“The night before Larry was stretched” INEC Theatre Killarney 24th May. It’s 30 minutes before show time in Killarney – In the dressing room my head is full of flashing thoughts; I need to look at Brendan’s Voyage, I haven’t sung it since Dingle last year… must run through the Contender with the Trad. Outfit

May 6th 2014 “As I went a walkin’ one morning in May I spied a young couple who fondly did stray One was a young maid so sweet and so fair And the other was a soldier boy, a bold grenadier” (From “The Nightingale”) When I first started singing ballads, this song was all the

Wednesday February 5th, 2014 “Remembering Anne Lovett” was an event held in Maynooth University to commemorate this young girls passing, 30 years ago. I felt privileged to be part of this memorial. We must never forget Anne Lovett. It happened in the middle of our Island. It could have happened in any town. Thirty years

The passing of Pete Seeger made headline news here in Ireland. For many of us he has been present for most of our lives, his work constantly referenced, and his songs reverberating through our soundscape. The Folk Revival, as I know it, emanated from America where the Coffee House Folk Clubs gave a stage to