I was pleased to have been asked to feature in the Summer 2015 edition of Celtic Family Magazine, an internationally recognised print and digital publication with distribution in the US and Canada. The street date for publication was on 21st July 2015 – I’m really looking forward to getting my copy in the post as there looks to be a...
Read MoreHarrup! It will soon be round two of our touring time with Aon Teanga:Un Çhengey, and this time we will have our brand new album with us, before the official release date in September! Eoghan - the Irish contingent in Aon Teanga:Un Çhengey - and I will be heading straight up to the Isle of Mull for our first gig,...
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Last month while a heat wave swept across the British Isles, the five of us in Nish As Rish donned our thickest scarves and mittens for a two week tour in Arctic Norway. We had been invited to give concerts to sixth form students across the Lofoten Islands and Vesterålen by Den Kulturelle Skolesekken, a national initiative run by the...
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London bound! I'm delighted that the Ruth Keggin band, Aon Teanga and the Friel Sisters from Donegal will be headlining the Gaelic Voices Festival, performing in a grand concert in the London Irish Centre in Camden on Saturday 16th May at 5pm. It will be the premiere of material by Aon Teanga - the inter-Gaelic song project featuring myself, Scottish...
Read MoreNext month I'll be heading off for a two week tour in the beautiful Lofoten Islands, Norway with the folk-roots collective Nish As Rish. Our tour is part of DKS ('Den kulturelle skolesekken) - a national initiative that brings professional musicians and visual artists into schools. It's fantastic that Norway really recognises the intrinsic value of arts and culture, as...
Read MoreI'm always game to try new things (no pun intended!) and so was intrigued when I was approached to write an anthem for the 2015 ConIFA Euros tournament, which takes place in Budapest this June. Not being a football buff, I wasn't initially aware of ConIFA, but I soon found out that it stands for Confederation of Independent Football Associations....
Read MoreIt doesn’t seem a moment since I was preparing for my first album launch on the Isle of Man, but in fact a whole year has passed and ‘Sheear’ is one year old today! I’m spending its birthday by travelling to York, where I studied music at University and met fellow musicians David Pearce (guitar) and Vanessa McWilliam (double bass)....
Read MoreNext week I'm off to Celtic Connections in Glasgow. I'll be representing my own band plus InterGaelic song project Aon Teanga at the Showcase Scotland event on Friday; pop over to my stand and say hello if you're going! My band and I will also be performing at the Danny Kyle Open Stage competition on Saturday 31st January. The concert...
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For me, one of the best things that happened in 2014 (asides from releasing my debut album) was the creation of a new InterGaelic vocal project called Aon Teanga - Un Çhengey. I had been aware that, while there had been many moves to re-establish Scottish-Irish links in recent times, there had NEVER before been a project that united the...
Read MoreI'm after spending a brilliant week with traditional Norwegian musicians Margit Myhr and Erlend Apneseth, and fellow Manx musicians Tomas Callister and David Kilgallon. Our musical collaboration was initiated by Culture Vannin in late 2012 as a way of celebrating the shared heritage between Norway and the Isle of Man (which was ruled by Viking kings for centuries). Tom and...
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