In Tune with Séamus Ennis

In Tune with Séamus Ennis

Saturday, 2 May 2020, 12.00pm

In Tune with Séamus Ennis
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Over the course of the May Bank Holiday Weekend we will mark Séamus’ 101st Birthday which would have been on May 5th 2020.

Some very special guests have recorded their own versions of their favourite Séamus Ennis tunes and these will be played on our YouTube channel and premiered across our social media channels in honour of the great man.

If you would like to gain priority access to view this series before we officially launch them, please sign up to our mailing list here https://www.tseac.ie/

The artists featured in these unique recordings hail from all over Ireland and each displays their love and admiration for Séamus in their musical renditions. They are:

Cormac de Barra
Ronan Browne, with Róisín Elsafty and Siobhán Armstrong
Zoe Conway
Kevin Crawford
Eoin Dillon
Frankie Gavin
Martin Hayes
Noel Hill
Paddy Keenan
Cormac MacDiarmada and Ruth Clinton
Padraic Mac Mathúna
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
Sorcha Ní Scolaí
Máirtín O’Connor
Steve Wickham

We would like to sincerely thank all the musicians who took part for their time in making the recordings and for all the lovely stories about Séamus Ennis.

Here is a piece of footage of the great man himself with one of our participating artists, a very youthful Noel Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVU3pSHQcFE

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Published by Séamus Ennis Arts Centre on 29 April 2020

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