NOVEMBER 2001
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CEOL AGUS CRAIC
'Get Ye to Some Music' The Light in the Darkness
By ERIN MUIXAN
Ceol binn a bhaint as an saoll It's November, it's dark, the news is depressing, the weather is depressing and it's all too easy to feel helpless and hopeless. Only one thing for it: run, do not walk, away from your television set and get ye to some music.
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All local Celtic music fans ought to head out to the WISE Hall November 16 for the Rogue Folk Club benefit concert, featuring crowd-pleasers Mad Pudding and plenty of special guests, prizes etc. The Rogue has been through some tough financial times of late and it needs and deserves your support, especially when you consider that the vast majority of Celtic acts that play our fair burg do so thanks to the Rogue. It's time for us to show our thanks to them...........On November 18 don't miss the exciting Canuck-Geordie double-bill of James Keelaghan and Jez Lowe at the Capilano College
Theatre...........On November 25 the same venue
hosts hard-workin' locals The Paperboys
...........The dancin' fiddlin' family Leahy hit the
Orpheum November 20...........On December 13 The
Rogue celebrates the season with Winter Harp at Cap College featuring two fine Celtic harpists and an array of early music instruments...........The return of Bourne & MacLeod is confirmed for February 16........... Lunasa are reputed to be in
Bellingham in February and with luck may add a
Vancouver date to the tour. Watch this space...........
Ireland's hottest young trad band Danu return
March 1 ...........Scotland's Battlefield Band are a
possible for a date in April...........Festival du Bois
has a killer lineup for its festival in March. It would be hard to beat La Bottine Souriante, La Yolee d'Castors and Les Frercs Brunet.
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Local motion: The next Scottish Ceilidh Dance is November 23 at 8 PM at. the Scottish Cultural Centre. All dances taught. For more info call (604) 436-
3193...........There are Scottish Country Dance
classes for all levels Monday nights 8-10 PM, also at the Scottish Cultural Centre. Call (604) 737-7948 for details............The Scottish Cultural Centre holds a fundraiser on November 17 with music
from Danny Burns...........The next Irish Ceili
Dance is November 17 at the Victoria Drive Community Hall, with live music from Erratica and kids welcome as always. Details: (604) 709-
4140...........The Irish Heather has an Irish session
on Tuesday nights hosted by Randy Vic and music
from Six Crows Gold on Thursdays.
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Recording News: Top artists on the Green Linnet label have new CD's slated for release in 2002. Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill and Patrick Street are currently recording, and Lunasa, Liz Carroll and Niamh Parsons all head back into the studio
this month...........There are plenty of fine albums
getting North American releases via Nashville-based label Compass Records including Dervish's latest:
Decade...........Victoria's Galliard Music is a new
store located in Fan Tan Alley which carries a lot of
music from the east coast of Canada...........Quebec's
La Bottine Souriante, whose recent CD Anthologie explores the band's 25 year history, has been nominated in the Americas/ Caribbean categorv of the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music and Afro Celt Sound System garnered a nomination in the Boundary Crossing category. The Afro-Celts, whose October gig here was cancelled in the aftermath of September 11, are getting rave reviews for their third release Further In Time.
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Check out next month's column for a gift list for music buffs. Questions, comments, or complaints? Write me c/o The Celtic Connection, #741 - 916 West Broadway, Vancouver V5Z 1K7, or email: celtic@istar.ca. (Erin Mullan hosts the Celtic music radio show In the Claddagh Ring, Fridays from 6.30 to 8 PM on CFRO 102.7 FM.)
New Irish Cultural Academy in Belfast
BELFAST - Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney officially launched the new Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages. The groundbreaking £3 million research centre is funded under the Department for Employment and Learning's SPUR initiative.
It is located at the University of Ulster's Magee campus and is the world's first Irish cultural research centre.
The aim is to transform the way heritage, culture and tradition arc perceived across Ireland and further afield. Professor Gerry McKenna, university vice-chancellor, said the bringing together of history, Celtic studies and English added an "exciting new dimension" to the study of Ireland's rich and diverse cultural heritage.
Enya Helps to Soothe America
Irish singer Enya has used her famous soothing sound to help console America in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. Sales of the Donegal singer's latest album vl Day Without Rain have soared since the disaster on September 11, shooting the album to number three in the U.S. charts, it has emerged.
CNN used Euya's single Only Time over pictures of the twin towers collapse, which led to the single gaining increased airtime on radio stations. Only Time is now sitting at number 16 in the Hot 100 charts in the U.S.
The single A Day Without Rain was released last year, and has sold steadily throughout America, where Enya has developed a large fanbase. Before the terrorist attacks, the album was sitting at number 19 in the charts, after selling 2.5 million copies. But within one week of the attacks, it moved to number three after selling almost 140,000 copies.
Enya's manager Nicky Ryan said he believed a radio-friendly remix of Only Time had helped push sales. "Enya is never played on American Radio, even though she sells two million albums there," he said. "CNN putting it on their sound bed certainly had an effect."
Van Morrison Denies Affair
BELFAST - Singer Van Morrison has demanded a retraction and apology over claims by American singer Linda Gail Lewis that he had a sexual relationship with her. Lewis made the claims when she appeared on a show hosted by Northern Ireland television personality Gerry Kelly on Ulster Television (UTV). The allegations were later carried in the Sunday Independent
Morrison, who lives mainly in Dublin, issued the following statement, "Ms Lewis makes these allegations knowing that I am intensely private about my personal life, and in the apparent belief that I would not engage in a public row and that her allegations would gain credence as a result.
"For a number of reasons I genuinely hoped that I could maintain a dignified silence in this matter, but I now feel compelled to issue this statement. The matter is now in the hands of my solicitors and I do not intend to say anything further in public on the subject."
The Belfast-born singer, who is in a long-standing relationship with Michelle Rocca. recently recorded a top-selling album with Lewis, who is a sister of the legendary rock artist, Jerry Lec Lewis.
If Morrison docs not receive a satisfactory response, he will be seeking damages against Lewis and both UTV and the Irish Independent.
Rogue Folk Club
\ ancouver's best Celtic / Folk / Roots Music www.roguefolk.bc.ca
Saturday November 10th
Canadian Songwriters in the round
John Mann, Chin, & Tom Wilson (TheCuitcn)
Friday November 16th
Benefit Concert & Auction: please support the Rogue Folk Club!
Mad Pudding, Cleia, and Guests (wise Haii)
Sunday November 18th
Canada's and England's finest songwriters together on Stage
James Keelaghan
& Jez Lowe (Cap College)
Sunday November 25th
Vancouver Celtic rockers with hot new line-up. Come and party!
Paperboys (Cap College)
Friday November 30th
Texas songwriter and fine guitarist return with a "live" double CD
Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart (wisehoii)
Sunday December 2nd
Award winning Canadian guitarist with Aboriginal and Scots roots DON ROSS (wise Hall)
plus lots more to be announced
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