Celtic Moment

From The Chieftains album: Long black veil featuring the rolling stones, Sinead O’Connor and Van Morrison

Originally posted 2010-08-24 11:38:51.

PASSIÓN is an exciting and passionate musical celebration of songs from Italy, France, Spain, Argentina and other continental favourites. PASSIÓN brings together three of Ireland’s renowned performers; Anthony Norton (Tenor with Three Irish Tenors and seven years with La Scala Theatre, Italy), Patrick Collins (of the well-loved Café Orchestra) and Drajen Djerek (virtuosic guitarist with the Café Orchestra, The Chieftains & Jools Holland).

In upcoming spring, I might visit my friend who will be studying abroad in Nottingham U. My 21st birthday is St. Patrick’s Day so I definately wanted to hit up Dublin for that. Glasgow is in the question just because I always wanted to go there and visit the surround areas. However, there is two problems, 1) My school break is only 8 days and 2) I am a poor university student. hehe.

*Note: Wow, these Yahoo! Categories are really limited for these types of questions… sorry “Ireland” category.

Preview of Peter_ginger’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Dublin, Ireland Entry Title: “Final day in Dublin and looking for Phil” Entry: “Today we started out sleeping in until 8am — or 3am USA/EST time. While a bit groggy, we pushed onward for our final day in Dublin. The first thing in order was a nice cup of coffee with some brown sugar (yes, you heard that correct). After a quick check of emails, BBC2 news and packing up the backpack, we got out the map and planned out our day. Today we singled out Trinity College/Book of Kells as well as looking for the Porterhouse pub (which I was told has many fine selections of homebrew favorites). Also, we were going to go visit Sheridan’s Cheese Shop to see Lucy — who we emailed with before we left. She is good friends with our neighbor (Tim Gaddis) and we also had a special gift for her. We were soon on our way around 9am. Out the front door and we were met with a wet street — but not rain in the air. Ginger quickly grabbed her new raincoat (to officially break it in) and off we went. Down O’Connell Street we went and soon hit some wisps of rain, but nothing major. We decided to stop into a small café called Scrumptious and grabbed an Americano espresso and small pastries — delicious! As we left the café, I could hear this huge protest going down near Dublin’s GPO (General post office which is …

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Preview of Mattandnicole’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Dublin, Ireland Entry Title: “St Paddies Day in style” Entry: “Top of the morning too everyone and greetings from Ireland. We had decided to head for Ireland for a while to see the rolling green hills, drink Guinness and witness St Pat’s day from Dublin. Our first day included allot of time in pubs drinking Guinness and talking to the locals (sometimes trying to figure out what they were saying – many have a thick accent) and trying to see things for free as it was quickly evident that Dublin was VERY expensive. Luckily most of the touristy things were close by, and we could always stop into a pub.. In addition to the pubs we went to the art museum and saw some Celtic art, saw some bog bodies in the natural history museum and then went back to one of the millions of pub and had a good pub meal washed down with guess what… Day 2 saw as take a tour – usually i wouldn’t be caught dead in a tour bus – but as Christina was with me sacrifices had to be made – and anyway the public transport here between cities leaves allot to be desired (plus it was cheaper to go on the tour). So we headed to glendalogh, a small village made famous by brother Kev who turned up 100s of years ago and medicated allot. From just one person (Kev) 100s more turned up to join him and a monastery and a few …

Riverdance cast for the performance were as principal dancers Maria Buffini and Padraic Moyles and the troupe were Darren Casey, Shona Cobbe, Damian Doherty, Niamh Eustace, Anthony Fallon, Barry John Gallagher, Patricia Henry, Ciara-Lee Jenkinson, Craig Mason, Marcus Maloney, Aoife McDarby, Niamh McDarby, Dane McKiernan, Aisling McVeigh, Laura Minogue, Cal Moran, Lisa Murphy, Caitlin NicGabhann, Carla O’Brien, Niamh O’Connor, Jason O’Neill, Andrew O’Reilly, Anne Toner Also Riverdance fiddle player Niamh Fahy and Uileann Piper John O’Brien joined the RTE orchestra for the performance. The event, organised by Riverdance director John McColgan, film-maker Gerald Heffernan, publisher Norah Casey and event producer Harry Crosbie , also featured acts including Westlife, The Chieftains, the National Symphony Orchestra, X Factor star Mary Byrne and former Eurovision winner Eimear Quinn

Where can I get an mp3 version of the you raise me up rendition done in the first Celtic Woman dvd? I can’t find it anywhere. I’ve heard of just sticking the dvd in your computer and changing the format of each song from video to mp3 but I don’t have that capability. If you have done this or know where an mp3 version is, could you please send it to me or show me where it is? I love this version so much, I don’t why. Thank you to anyone who replies!!! Much is appreciated!!!

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