Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
Irish traditional musician Martin Hayes will be officially recognised by Clare County Council at a Civic Reception on Monday, 12 May 2008 at 6.45pm.
Àras Contae an Chláir, New Road, Ennis, County Clare
Martin Hayes is a fiddler, born in Maghera in East Clare, and now living in West Hartford, Connecticut. He has been the All Ireland Fiddle Champion six times, and has won a National Entertainment Award, and the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2000 award for Instrumentalist of the Year. TG4 has awarded Martin Hayes Traditional Musician of the Year 2008.
Hayes recently released album‘Welcome Here Again’, which he recorded with guitarist Dennis Cahill, has already garnered international critical acclaim.
The duo will be on a nation wide tour of Ireland from 29th May to 12th June.
A Civic Reception is the highest accolade that a Local Authority can award to an individual, group or organisation.
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
I think there's an old saying that goes something like "an ounce of breeding is worth a ton of feeding" and you've only got to remember the great P Joe Hayes (Martin's father and a founder member of the legendary Tulla Céilí Band) to see where Martin gets it from!
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
There's a very good interview with Martin on this week's Tuesday show on Clare FM ("Music in the Glen" hosted by Claire Keville). He plays a few tunes, also.
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
yes, he is over there right now and for the next few days you can access a brilliant lengthy interview with lots of in-studio live fiddling on claire keville's tuesday nite "music in the glen" show for may 6, on clarefm.ie.......the latter half of the show, more or less, is martin hayes talking to claire about the award, the music, his take on the music, interspersed with wonderful fiddling. it is really like a master class/concert.......
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
oh, silly me, i missed alec b's post about the clare fm show, sorry....
to make it up, i'll offer a youtube alert-----a super recently-materialized clip of martin playing for dancers in tulla at the tulla festival put on last september....it is a brilliant clip.....of course, the fact that martin is playing with Kings of Swing andrew mac, mark donnellan and jim corry doesn't hurt any.....i'll try copying the link below, but also, the clip is titled:
The ceili with the most gorgeous music in the world!
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill are live on Shannonside/Northern Sound in Longford this morning 10th May 2008 from 11:00am. They are guests on CHarlie McGettigan's show. The show can be listened to on the web (http://www.shannonside.ie or http://www.northernsound.ie)
Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
Irish traditional musician Martin Hayes will be officially recognised by Clare County Council at a Civic Reception on Monday, 12 May 2008 at 6.45pm.
Àras Contae an Chláir, New Road, Ennis, County Clare
Martin Hayes is a fiddler, born in Maghera in East Clare, and now living in West Hartford, Connecticut. He has been the All Ireland Fiddle Champion six times, and has won a National Entertainment Award, and the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2000 award for Instrumentalist of the Year. TG4 has awarded Martin Hayes Traditional Musician of the Year 2008.
Hayes recently released album‘Welcome Here Again’, which he recorded with guitarist Dennis Cahill, has already garnered international critical acclaim.
The duo will be on a nation wide tour of Ireland from 29th May to 12th June.
A Civic Reception is the highest accolade that a Local Authority can award to an individual, group or organisation.
# Posted on May 8th 2008 by Martin Donohoe
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
Yeh good stuff.
He is a top fella as well very approachable and a credit to the tradition.Not a bad player either.
# Posted on May 8th 2008 by J.D
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
I think there's an old saying that goes something like "an ounce of breeding is worth a ton of feeding" and you've only got to remember the great P Joe Hayes (Martin's father and a founder member of the legendary Tulla Céilí Band) to see where Martin gets it from!
# Posted on May 8th 2008 by Bannerman
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
There's a very good interview with Martin on this week's Tuesday show on Clare FM ("Music in the Glen" hosted by Claire Keville). He plays a few tunes, also.
# Posted on May 8th 2008 by alec b
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
yes, he is over there right now and for the next few days you can access a brilliant lengthy interview with lots of in-studio live fiddling on claire keville's tuesday nite "music in the glen" show for may 6, on clarefm.ie.......the latter half of the show, more or less, is martin hayes talking to claire about the award, the music, his take on the music, interspersed with wonderful fiddling. it is really like a master class/concert.......
# Posted on May 9th 2008 by ceemonster
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
oh, silly me, i missed alec b's post about the clare fm show, sorry....
to make it up, i'll offer a youtube alert-----a super recently-materialized clip of martin playing for dancers in tulla at the tulla festival put on last september....it is a brilliant clip.....of course, the fact that martin is playing with Kings of Swing andrew mac, mark donnellan and jim corry doesn't hurt any.....i'll try copying the link below, but also, the clip is titled:
The ceili with the most gorgeous music in the world!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tulla+ceili&search_type=
# Posted on May 9th 2008 by ceemonster
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill are live on Shannonside/Northern Sound in Longford this morning 10th May 2008 from 11:00am. They are guests on CHarlie McGettigan's show. The show can be listened to on the web (http://www.shannonside.ie or http://www.northernsound.ie)
# Posted on May 10th 2008 by Toucan Chango
Re: Irish Fiddle Virtuoso To Be Honoured By Native County
I'm really looking forward to seeing Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill playing in Belfast's Black Box! It'll be a stormer of a gig!!
# Posted on May 12th 2008 by Moving On