Here comes the (Jaded) Sun
BY MARK MCKELVEY
Jaded Sun are coming to Omagh but don't worry, that isn't a weather forecast. Described as one of Ireland's hottest new rock Bands, Jaded sun, who have to date supported Bon Jovi and Nickleback in front of 80,000 fans in Croke Park have signed up to perform on March 26 in The Terrace Bar in Omagh.
This is a great coup for the John Street establishment as it looks to re-launch 'Omagh Rocks' on Fridays with the aim to be the North-West's premier live-music venue, according to proprietor, Chris McGale.
Jaded Sun have spent the...>>> more
Seán to launch new album at An Creagan
FOR his newly-released CD, folk singer Seán Donnelly has amassed a carefully chosen bunch of songs which the Killyclogher-born musician will be showcasing when he launches the album locally at a concert in An Creagan next Friday night (March 26).
Entitled 'The Winding Banks of Erne,' the CD contains 11 tracks ranging from much loved folk songs like 'The Mountains of Mourne' and 'I Wish My Love Was a Red Red Rose'to the likes of Eamon Friel's 'Hard Town' and a few numbers more closely associated with the eastern Canadian seaboard.
The...>>> more
It sounds like summer
By Conor Sharkey
WHAT a winter it has been.
Cold, dark, miserable and at one point, seemingly eternal.
Well thankfully, it is well and truly behind us and we can now look forward to perfect summer days - when the sun is shining, the birds are singing and the lawnmower is broken. Absolute bliss.
No sun-soaked season would be complete though without Tyrone's number one music festival Sounds Like Summer. And this year's event gets its official launch right here today.
Now in its third year, the Alley Theatre/Strabane Chronicle Sounds Like Summer...>>> more
Kathleen's choir in competition
BY MARK McKELVEY
Multi-faceted Tummery musician, singer and now conductor, Kathleen Turner will lead the award-winning Limerick Gospel Choir on RTE1's Irish language singing competition An Cór tomorrow evening (Friday, March 12) at 7.30pm.
Kathleen has been in this director role for the past three years having moved to Limerick studying two Masters at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance – one in Community Music and most recently in Ritual Chant and Song.
The Limerick Gospel Choir was one of six choirs from Ireland to...>>> more
Castlederg pupils in production of 'Smike'
Pupils at Castlederg High School have been busy rehearsing for their musical production 'Smike' which will be staged in the school from Monday to Wednesday, March 22-24.
The show begins in a modern but not very pleasant school where the pupils are transported back in time to become characters from Charles Dickens 'Nicholas Nickleby'.
They are in a dreadful Victorian school run by an evil headmaster, Mr Squeers, played by Adam Lowry. Will the hero of the story, Nickleby (Justin Bogle), be able to save poor orphan Smike (Lee Donnell) from this...>>> more
Local backing for Jason's debut
Fans of Irish Country Music are in for a treat at the Mellon Country Hotel on Friday, March 12 with the arrival of Irish country music's newest sensation, Jason McGilligan and his all-new band 'The Big Beat.'
Jason has already made a lasting impression as a contestant on the widely regarded TG4 Showcase 'Glor Tire', kick starting a career that has gone from strength to strength in the past 12 months.
Not only was his debut EP 'Goodbye to An Angel' a sell-out success, but he has also been very fortunate to share the stage with many national and...>>> more
'Creatures' in Omagh debut gig this weekend
TOP outfit John, Shelly and the Creatures play their debut gig in the Top of the Town in Omagh this Friday night as part of their current Irish tour.
John, Shelly and the Creatures made a significant move in their musical career when they released their single 'Angeline' to receive critical acclaim and radio support from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio Ulster, U105fm, Phantom Fm and many more.
Following in the footsteps of fellow Northern band Snow Patrol, they then signed a publishing deal with Big Life Music Ltd (Snow Patrol, The Verve, Badly Drawn...>>> more
Celebrate Irish film and language at Strule Arts Centre
The Omagh St Patrick's Festival provides an opportunity to celebrate Irish film and Irish language at the Strule Arts Centre in the lead up to the day's celebrations.
On Tuesday, March 9 at 8pm there will be screening of possibly the finest and funniest film, The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne who plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. He finds Maureen O'Hara a fiery young woman and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since. The Quiet Man is the very unusual love story of a man and a woman, two...>>> more
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