Category Archives: 2014’s Performers

Playing Friday 24th October 2014 – 7:30pm at Kings Place. £15.50 / £13.50 advance saver. The Brock McGuire band is led by Moving Cloud founding members – button accordionist and melodeonist Paul Brock and fiddler Manus McGuire. They reside in County Clare and have been at the forefront of Irish music for many years. Manus […]

Friday 24th October – 7.30pm –  CrossHarbour in Concert / Brock McGuire Band Kings Place , 90 York Way, King’s Cross, London N1 9AG £15.50 / £13.50 advance saver Named after a tube station in London’s docklands, CrossHarbour is an exciting young band from the thriving London Irish music scene. Fusing well-loved traditional tunes and […]

Saturday 25th October – 7.30pm – Concert –  Peter Coughlan / Frankie Gavin and De Dannan – Crown Moran Hotel (Bentley Suite) – £15 (advance of day)/ £17 (on door)/ £6 (under 18s) Peter Coughlan grew up in a farmhouse in Co. Offally, where there was much Irish music and dancing. He moved to London […]

Saturday 25th October – 7.30pm – Concert – Frankie Gavin and De Dannan / Peter Coughlan – Crown Moran Hotel (Bentley Suite) – £15 (advance of day)/ £17 (on door)/ £6 (under 18s)   The renowned fiddle player Frankie Gavin presents the latest version of his seminal band, De Dannan. The band features singer Michelle Lally, […]

Sunday 26th October – 11am-1pm – Harp Workshop with Siobhan Bhreatnach – £10 at the London Irish Centre

Saturday 25th October – Album Launch – ‘Grace Bay’ by Tommy McCarthy and Louise Costello /  ‘Note for Note’ Mary MacNamara 5pm at the London Irish Centre, Presidential Suite – FREE Tommy McCarthy and Louise Costello met in Boston in 1986, where both were part of the city’s thriving traditional music scene. They married in 1992 […]

Saturday 25th October – Album Launch – ‘Note for Note’ Mary MacNamara / ‘Grace Bay’ by Tommy McCarthy and Louise Costello 5pm at the London Irish Centre – FREE ——————— Saturday 25th October – Concertina Workshop with Mary MacNamara – £10 London Irish Centre – 11am-1pm   Mary MacNamara is a concertina player and music teacher from Tulla, County […]

Saturday 25th October – Afternoon Concert at 2.30pm at the Lonodn Irish Centre –  Breaking Trad (AKA Dónal Murphy Band) / Harry Bradley /John Bowe, Mick O’Connor and Pete Quinn – £10

Saturday 25th October – Afternoon Concert – Harry Bradley / Breaking Trad (AKA Dónal Murphy Band) / John Bowe, Mick O’Connor and Pete Quinn – £10 – at the London Irish Centre

Sunday 26th October – 11am – Uilleann Pipes Workshop with James O’Grady – London Irish Centre – £10 James grew up in Luton. He has played music from the age of 8 and learned the Uilleann Pipes from Tommy Keane, here at the London Irish Centre. He took part and won many All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil […]