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The Mitchell's Glengyle
Distillery
Dalriada Connections Concert
Sunday 22nd August
2010
Heritage Centre, Campbeltown
Tickets - £10 (incl sponsors
miniature), Doors 1.30pm
Gerry
O'Connor & Kevin Doherty
Marc Duff
Canterach
The Millar Sisters
Lorne MacDougall
Scooter Muse
Frank Rochford
The Dalriada Connections Band
The MOK Festival
committee are pleased to
announce that the Dalriada
Connections Concert in the
Campbeltown Heritage Centre on
Sunday 22nd August
will again be sponsored by
Mitchell's Glengyle Distillery.
The concert this year again
boasts a top class line up
featuring artists from Northern
Ireland to North Argyll. The
sponsors have again generously
offered a free miniature with
every ticket, which can be
picked up at the venue on the
day of the concert.
Gerry "banjo" O'Connor
Gerry O'Connor
has brought the banjo to places
no other player had tread
before. He has travelled the
world - physically and musically
- experimenting with everything
from Irish to bluegrass to
African and Asian, and back to
Irish. Both as a soloist and as
a member of the highly acclaimed
Four Men and a Dog, Gerry has
truly traced the banjo's journey
through the world of music.
Gerry has three
solo albums to his credit: 1992
saw the release of Gerry's first
album "Time to Time" which is
now considered a classic.
In 1993 Gerry
joined "Four Men and a Dog" and
recorded three critically
acclaimed albums in the company
of rock legends "THE BAND". They
performed at major festivals
throughout Europe, Canada, USA,
Australia and China.
As well as being
a composer and performer Gerry
is a much sought after session
musician. He worked on Michael
Flatley's "Lord of the Dance"
soundtrack. He has guested over
the years with many famous Irish
artists such as The Waterboy's,
Mary Black, Arcady, Moya
Brennan, Luka Bloom and
performed for US President Bill
Clinton in Belfast during his
historic visit to Ireland.
No Place Like
Home", released at the end of
the summer, 2004, is Gerry
O'Connor's first solo album in 5
years and represents a sort of
'homecoming' to his musical
heritage!
Described by many
as the best four-string banjoist
in the history of Irish music,
Gerry O’Conner lets creativity
take him where it wants to.
Web site
www.fourmenandadog and
www.gerryoconnor.com
Kevin Doherty
Kevin Doherty,
from Co. Donegal in Ireland's
Northwest corner, first took up
the guitar in his mid-teens. In
the subsequent years Kevin, with
a clutch of self penned songs,
played with several local bands
and on the periphery of the
thriving Donegal traditional
music scene.
The undoubted
highlight of Kevin's time with
Four Men & A Dog was a chance
meeting in Norway with Levon
Helm; singer/drummer with
legendary Dylan sidekicks and
legends of American music, The
Band. As a result of a late
night laced with songs and
stories an immediate friendship
was struck up, and Four Men & A
Dog were invited to Helm's
recording studios in Woodstock.
Kevin's song
writing abilities meanwhile were
not going unnoticed. Most
notably, Mary Black recorded
"Donegal Breeze" for her Circus
album of 1996. In the later half
of 1997 Kevin decided it was
time to return to the life of a
solo performer. A couple of
discreet Dublin performances
followed and time was spent
writing new material to bring to
his own shows.
In 1998 he
recorded the self-funded debut
solo album "Strange Weather".
With Aaron Hurwitz on production
duties and special guests Levon
Helm and Rick Danko, Strange
Weather became a celebration of
the rural traditions of both
Ireland and America, set against
Donegal's rugged and remote
expanse. The album release drew
the following comments: "Doherty
has a finely attuned ear for the
modern beat poetry of isolation:
songs such as Embrace Me and
Paradise highlight how good the
Donegal man can be when he has
the bit between.
Web site
www.fourmenandadog
Marc Duff
was born in
Ontario, Canada and raised in
Argyll, Scotland. Marc was a
founder member of Capercaillie
playing whistles, recorder and
bouzouki and recording seven
albums which have sold over a
million copies including the
first Gaelic top 40 single.
Since leaving Capercaillie in
1995 to pursue his own career,
he has worked with many
prominent artists. Recently he
has toured in Scotland with Dr
Fred Freeman, presenting a
series of successful workshops
in connection with Linn Records
''The Complete Songs Of Robert
Burns'' series. In addition to
live performances, Marc is
currently researching and
teaching.
In 2008 he was a
nominee for BBC Alba's Trad
Music Awards, 'Traditional
Musician Of The Year'.
Canterach,
who feature four
members with strong local ties
to Campbeltown and Kintyre. The
line up for this concert will
include Ross Kennedy on guitar &
vocals, Lorne MacDougall on
highland pipes and whistle,
Rebecca Brown on fiddle, Jamie
Kennedy on percussion and Angus
McLaughlin on Bodhran/Vocals.
Canterach have played at the
Mull of Kintyre Music Festival
supporting Eddi Reader in 2006,
headlined the Dalriada
Connections Concert in 2007
played at the Music of Kintyre
Night concert in the Kirk Street
Hall last year and at the
Kintyre Tuition Group
Fundraising concert in March
this year. The band was founded
in 1992 and has played in 20
different countries to date and
have one self-titled album.
Web site:
www.myspace.com/canterach
Scooter Muse:
Scooter is well
known to audiences in
Campbeltown having played at the
Festival on several occasions,
twice with Full Moon Ansemble
and once with Ed Miller and
Friends and at last years
Dalriada Connections Concert.
Scooter has his roots in
Bluegrass Music and has won ten
State of Alabama & Tennessee
Valley Championship titles for 5
String and Old Time Banjo. From
1994 till 2002 was founder and
leader of one of the country's
finest Celtic bands, The Full
Moon Ensemble, touring the US,
Canada and Scotland.
After the FME
went their separate ways in
December of 2002, Scooter joined
Henri's Notions (www.henrisnotions.com)
after being a big fan of the
band for many years!
He has released
his first solo guitar CD, "Saddell
Abbey" featuring 14 tracks of
music. The CD includes 12
original compositions for
acoustic guitar including music
set to the poetry of Robert
Burns, and 3 songs by the Full
Moon Ensemble's Allison King and
Jil Chambless of Henri's
Notions. Saddell Abbey is
available through Henri's
Notions Website and CD Baby.
In between gigs
with the Notions, Scooter
handles all the 5 string banjo
work for the Muscle Shoals
recording industry as well as
hitting a few bluegrass
festivals and competitions.
My Space:
www.myspace.com/scootermuse
The Miller Sisters
are Kirsten,
Colleen and Caitlin Miller and
this is their first appearance
at the Dalriada Connections
Concert. Having played and sang
at previous events including the
MOK Fest Young Folk Night they
are really looking forward to
singing and playing at this
event in their home town.
Lorne MacDougall
is one of
Scotland’s leading young pipers.
Lorne was born and brought up in
Carradale, he began to learn the
pipes with Tony Wilson, the pipe
major of Campbeltown Pipe Band
at the time of the band’s
appearance on Paul McCartney’s
number one hit Mull of Kintyre,
and was a founder member of the
prize-winning Kintyre Schools
Pipe Band on its formation in
1999. Lorne is currently
working on his first solo CD
which he hopes to have out in
the near future.
Lorne’s Web Site
is
www.lornemacdougall.com
Frank Rochford
has performed at
the MOK Fest as a fiddle player
since the age of eight and he
makes a welcome return solo
appearance at this concert and
as a member of the Dalriada
Connections Band.
The Dalriada Connections Band,
This unique band
comes together each year under
the name of the Dalriada
Connections Band, consisting of
all the artists who have
performed over the course of the
concert and more. Last years
band (pictured) finished off the
concert to a rousing ovation
which ended a truly special
concert.
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