Coming Up:
Friday 5th September 2008
The fabulous Maria Doyle Kennedy in concert
Tickets €20 available from Moo.
Doors open at 8.00 p.m.
NOMINATED FOR THE 2008 METEOR AWARDS -
BEST IRISH FEMALE
Recently nominated for the 2008 Meteor Awards in the Best Irish Female category, Maria Doyle Kennedy released Skullcover on February 8th 2008. An album of songs written by other people, the fourteen track LP features interpretive acoustic covers by the likes of The Cure (Lovesong), Thin Lizzy (Still In Love With You), Tom Petty (Breakdown), John Martyn (Could Not Love You More) and ABBA (SOS). Recorded in 2005 as a Limited Edition website-only release, the thousand copies sold out without days and now, due to demand, Skullcover was released nationwide for the first time on Mermaid Records through Pinnacle Distribution.
Maria’s debut album Charm nation wide was re-released on the same date. The subject of widespread critical acclaim, Charm was a triumph of self-determination that encompassed everything from unadulterated rock and roll to left field Americana. Yielding the hit radio single, ‘Stars Above’, performed on The Late Late show after the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York, Charm was nominated for Best New Album at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards in 2001.
Maria Doyle Kennedy released her third album Mütter in May of 2007. The album, a marked departure from both Charm and Skullcover, was four years in the making and recorded at many locations including Cork, Wicklow, Dublin and Monaghan. A gloriously unsettling collection of classic pop melodies, cuts such as ‘Opera’, ‘Skin’ and ‘Here You Come’, are intensified by Kieran Kennedy’s masterfully treated guitars and inventive keyboard backdrops. The timbre of the record evokes a folk-ambient hybrid, warm airs and carefully crafted words offset by wintry tinges of the Cocteau Twins and The Cure.
Doyle Kennedy is also very well known as an actress who has appeared in Irish movies such as The Commitments, The General and Father Ted and currently stars as Catherine of Aragon, wife of King Henry VIII, in the hit US series The Tudors.
NEXT UP:
Saturday 6th September 2008
Latin American Dance Class
Andre leads a group class for two hours of salsa,
bachata, merengue etc from 8.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m., followed by one-to-one dancing til late.
€10 payable to Andre on the night.
NEXT UP:
Saturday 13th September 2008
Joan Walsh & Guests
Each month Moo holds a cabaret night hosted by Ballinamore's very own resident singer songwriter, Joan Walsh.
Our variety nights attract a wide range of local, national and international talent. If you fancy taking the stage to sing your song, read your poem, play your instrument, whatever, just pop along and see Joan on the night. Or just come and watch - it's great craic.
