Máirtín O'Connor Band Live And Recorded
Jimmy Higgins, Cathal Hayden, Máirtín O’Connor and Séamie O’Dowd.
Coinciding with the arrival through the letter box of their new album, Going Places, the Máirtín O’Connor Band (featuring O’Connor, Cathal Hayden and Séamie O’Dowd) is playing an in-store gig today, 26 April, at 1pm in Celtic Note, Nassau Street, Dublin 2.
They are also playing a double-bill gig with Heidi Talbot and John McCusker on Sunday night, 29 April at the Button Factory in Temple Bar presented by the Liffey Banks Sessions. Meanwhile, Talbot is playing the Café Sessions this Friday at the Temple Gate Hotel in Ennis; and the Athlone Folk Club at the Shamrock Lodge Hotel on Saturday.
The May Liffey Banks Session features Tim O’Brien, Kevin Burke, Dezi Donnelly, Michael McGoldrick and John Doyle. It takes place on 15 May, and as with all the Sessions tickets are available on entertainment.ie or at Claddagh Records and Celtic Note.
The Going Places CD from the Máirtín O’Connor Band is a collection of twelve tracks, as follows:
1) Trip to Turk - Port Mháirtín Shéamuis (the first composed by O’Connor himself, and the second by an uncle of Mattie Jo Shéamuis Ó Fatharta)
2) The Monaghan Jig
3) Believe Me Sligo (the Thom Moore song)
4) Lord Mayo - Traver’s Reel - Lucy Farr’s
5) Going Places (or Swing Swang) - Cregg’s Pipes
6) The Mountains of Pomeroy
7) Rocket To the Moon (a song written by Rory and Calum McDonald of Runrig)
8) Indifference (a musette waltz by Tony Murena and Joseph Colombo)
9) The Geese In the Bog
10) The Water Is Wide (song with Tommy Emmanuel)
11) The Drogheda Jig
12) Heading Home - Full Circle
Guests on the album are Jimmy Higgins on bodhrán and percussion, Tommy Emmanuel on guitar and vocals, Aminah Hughes on backing vocals, and Rory O’Dowd on guitar. It was recorded and mixed mostly by Kenny Ralph in Sun Street Studios in Tuam, apart from ‘The Water is Wide’ which was partly recorded by Trevor Hutchinson at Marguerite Studios in Dublin as well.
Published on 26 April 2012
