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Clare Arts Office, Glór Irish Music Centre
& Ennis Trad Festival
Present
 
TRAD
TOURING RECORDING
ARTS COUNCIL DEIS
Information day on touring, recording &
Arts Council funding for the traditional arts*
Friday 11th November, 2005
Glór Irish Music Centre,
Ennis, Co. Clare
Schedule
11am – Registration
11.30am – Introductory briefing by Muiris Ó
Rócháin
12 noon – Arts Council’s new traditional
arts initiative – ‘Deis’
information session by Dr. Liz Doherty, Traditional Arts
Specialist with the Arts Council
1pm – Interim report on the Traditional Arts
Research in County Clare
Presented by Siobhán Mulcahy, County Arts Officer
& Tara Connaghan, Regional Arts Co-ordinator
1.30pm – lunch
2.30pm – Recording - Commercial, creative
& archiving issues:
Tom Sherlock, Manager of traditional artists
Iarla O’Lionaird, Professional singer
Tom Munnelly, Collector
3.45pm – Touring - A discussion of issues
related to touring:
Benny McCarthy, Professional musician
Ollie Jennings, Manager of The Saw Doctors
Alan Kelly, Professional musician
Questions / summary – 5.30pm close
Booking:
contact Glór Irish Music Centre box office on +353
65 6843103 info@glor.ie
Cost: €10
per person (lunch available at extra cost)
Early booking is recommended as places are limited.
Speakers:
Muiris Ó Rócháin is a founding-director
of the Willie Clancy Summer School, in Miltown Malbay, Co.
Clare and is Cathaoirleach, Comhairle Radió na Gaeltachta
Dr. Liz Doherty is a fiddle player from Buncrana, Co. Donegal.
She was appointed Traditional Arts Specialist with the Arts
Council of Ireland in March 2005.
Siobhan Mulcahy is the Arts Officer with Clare County Council.
Tara Connaghan, is a fiddle player from Donegal. She works
with Clare County Council as Regional Arts Co-ordinator
specialising in the traditional arts. Tara is also an adviser
for the Arts Council’s traditional Arts Initiative
– DEIS.
Tom Sherlock is a Dublin-based manager of traditional music
artists and dancers including Altan, Liam O'Flynn, Paddy
Glackin, Seamus Begley etc. with extensive experience of
festival programming and tour management. From 1982 until
1996 he worked as production manager with Claddagh Records.
Tom is a part-time lecturer in music business studies and
occasional writer, consultant and commentator on Irish music.
Iarla Ó Lionaird is a sean-nos singer from Cuil
Aodh, in West Cork. He has been a member of the band ‘Afro
Celts’ for the last 10 years and has recently embarked
on a solo career. He has worked with many innovative artists
using various innovative recording techniques.
Tom Munnelly is full time folklore collector and archivist
with the Department of Irish Folklore in UCD. Living in
Clare since 1978, he has a mast largest collection of traditional
song ever complied by a collector in Ireland.
Benny McCarthy is an accordion player from West Waterford
who has toured and managed the band “Danú”
since their formation in 1995. He has vast experience of
working with agents and promoters in Europe, USA and Canada.
Ollie Jennings is founder of the Galway Arts Festival and
former manager of De Dannan. He currently manages The Saw
Doctors.
Alan Kelly is a piano accordion player from Roscommon who
has released 3 albums on his own record label, Black Box
Music. He has toured extensively with both theatre and music,
including De Dannan, Alison Brown, Eddi Reader and Michael
McGoldrick, as well as fronting his own band.
Who should attend?
· traditional arts practitioners
· individuals
· bands
· teachers
· organisations
· festivals
· technical personnel
· industry professionals i.e. managers
· and anyone interested in the traditional arts
*‘Traditional arts’ are defined as traditional
music, song, dance & oral arts such as storytelling
and agallamh beirte.
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