Source: Donegal News
BY SEÁN P. FEENY – For years we have had to endure the same songs every Christmas season. That was until one of Donegal’s very own pop stars decided to release his first Christmas song.
Today (Friday) Mickey Harte’s Home On Christmas Day is available to download and will hit radio stations nationwide.
Mickey said that while it’s hard to compete with the ‘X Factor’ for a Christmas Number One these days, he had always wanted to release a Christmas song and with the help of Terry McGinty on the music, this season was the right time to do it.
“The song is based on a story someone told me about their father coming home for Christmas after dealing with alcoholism and it being the best gift they could ask for.”
Besides working on his own music, Mickey continues to be an ‘in demand’ songwriter with songs co-written by the Lifford native appearing on Dublin singer Rob Burke’s new album and on the latest release by Jack Tempchin, writer of The Eagles hit ‘Peaceful Easy Feeling’.
For further info: www.myspace.com/mickeyharte
Email: handonharte@gmail.com
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Source: http://www.vaildaily.com
By: Sarah Dixon
VAIL VALLEY, Colorado — Different cultures celebrate the holidays in different ways. For some, it’s about the food. For others, it’s about gathering with family and loved ones around a warm fire.
In the Celtic tradition, it’s about all of these things. But as important, Cherish the Ladies’ Joanie Madden says, is song and dance.
“Music and the Irish tradition are so closely tied,” she said from the tour bus between performances last week. “It’s the language we speak. All of us in the band come from musical families, it’s something that’s been passed down through the ages.”
Madden and the entire Cherish the Ladies troupe, along with a cast of award-winning dancers and musicians, take the Vilar Center stage Monday night with their “Celtic Christmas” show.
“When it came time for Christmas in our households, it was all about gathering with friends and family for a jam session,” Madden says. “That’s what we bring to the audience with our show. We’re having a great time up there — lots of laughing on stage. It’s really a social event for everyone in the theater.
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Rathkeltair (pronounce rath-KELT-ur) is one of North America’s premier Celtic rock bands. Based in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and touring internationally since 2003, Rathkeltair delivers one of the most energetic, entertaining, audience-friendly shows you will see anywhere.
Bringing together three formidable multi-instrumentalists from England, Ireland, and America, Rathkeltair is essentially a power trio consisting of guitarist Trevor Tanner, drummer Nick Watson, and ‘piper Neil Anderson. Depending on the venue, they will often bring along one or two guest musicians, usually a bass guitarist and occassionally a fiddler.
Trev, Nick and Neil are all veteran road warriors with incredible stories to tell. Together, they will take you on a rollicking journey through time and space. So hop in, and hitch a ride in the big white van- we don’t know where we’ll end up but you can bet it’ll be great fun. Because as any old road dog will tell you, it’s all about the journey, not the destination. That’s Rathkeltair.
For more information, please visit: http://www.rathkeltair.com
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The Irish as a race have given the world some of the most important and influential people in rocknroll history – the likes of Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, U2 and, through descension, The Beatles, The Smiths and more recently Oasis. The influence of traditional music is well acknowledged by all these artists, many of them citing the more traditional artists like The Chieftains, Luke Kelly and The Dubliners as mentors with The Pogues landing somewhere between the two styles. Still nobody to this day has truly married all these into one as naturally and effortlessly as The BibleCodeSundays, with the added influence of growing up in a multicultural London, surrounded by a strong Irish community. This breeds a unique branch of the worlds vast Irish population. The stories, poems and songs that speak of a beautiful landscape and glorious heroes mixed in with the aggressive, dirty streets of day to day London.
The BibleCodeSundays debut album Ghosts of Our Past was born mostly out of frustration that no one band was really hitting the mark. The Pogues had opened a door and nobody was stepping through and carrying on their work as so many bands had done with The Beatles. Included on this debut album are three songs written for Mike O’Dea’s Boston-Irish movie Code of Silence which will be produced by Michael Z Gordon, the producer of the movie Narc which starred Ray Liotta. 
The band proved to be a popular one on the London Irish scene and were voted winners by readers of The Irish World newspaper for the award of ‘Best Band on London Circuit 2006′. The lads picked up the award at a huge ceremony and after their performance on the night were described as “a breath of fresh air for Irish music.” They were never content to just be a local band playing other people’s music and harboured ambitions of reaching a world-wide audience.
‘The BibleCodeSundays’ name came about from regular sunday gigs and drink-fuelled conversations about conspiracy theories. These weekly gigs/sessions became known as ‘BibleCode Sundays’.
To learn more about the band, visit: http://www.biblecodesundays.co.uk/bcshtml/theband.htm
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