Dear Listeners,
Christy will play the Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire on Fri July 26th and Sat July 27th – and the Barbican Theatre, Drogheda on Fri September 20th.
Dun Laoghaire tickets on sale Fri June 21st. Barbican tickets on sale Saturday June 22nd.
October dates in Armagh City Hotel and the Slieve Donard Resort, Newcastle are on sale now.
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Dear Listeners,
Tickets are now on sale for Íontas Theatre, Castleblayney shows in September, while October dates in Armagh City Hotel and the Slieve Donard Resort, Newcastle go on sale Friday June 14th.
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Dear Listeners,
Christy returns to Íontas Theatre, Castleblayney on Friday Sept 6th. Tickets on sale Tuesday June 11th.
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Dear Listeners,
We are pleased to announce that we have added a second show in Leisureland, Salthill, Galway on Saturday August 17th, 2019, and a second show in the Great Northern Hotel, Bundoran on October 5th, 2019. Tickets on sale now.
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Dear Listeners,
We are pleased to announce that we have added a second show at The National Concert Hall, Dublin for Thursday June 20th, 2019. Tickets on sale tomorrow (Wednesday May 1st) at 10AM.
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Dear Listeners,
Tickets go on sale Friday March 29th for just announced show at the Mount Wolseley Hotel, Tullow on Thursday Sept 12th.
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Dear Listeners,
We are pleased to announce that Christy is returning to the National Concert Hall for a Solo performance on Wednesday June 19th. Tickets go on sale at 10AM on Thursday March 21st.
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Dear Listeners,
BBC 4 will air Come All You Dreamers at 10pm on Friday March 15th. Hope you get a chance to watch it again.
Christy
Dear Listeners,
Christy Moore, Declan Sinnott, Donal Lunny, and Jim Higgins will play Vicar Street on March 13th in Memory of Tim Martin & in aid of The Irish Hospice Foundation
Tickets on sale this Tuesday 18th December at 9am.
This gig will be a tribute to the late Tim Martin, our dear friend and colleague, with whom we worked closely over the past 30 years. He was the outstanding Sound Engineer of our time. Tim’s Family have requested that this gig be in aid of The Irish Hospice Foundation who will receive all the proceeds from this project.
Christy writes:
Tim Martin was the foremost Sound Engineer in Ireland. He is sadly and badly missed
particularly by his Family but also by all of those fortunate enough to have worked with him
across the years. Apart from the skills and expertise apparent in his work, Tim was a good
friend. His attention to detail, his focus, his preparedness to catch those magic spontaneous moments gave us all great confidence in the recording process. On top of all that Tim was mighty crack!!
Some of the acts recorded by Tim include
Planxty, Donal Lunny, Declan Sinnott, Matt Molloy, Whipping Boy, Commitments, Mary Coughlan, Seamus Heaney, Liam O’Flynn, Terence Trent Darby, Phil Lynnott, The Corrs, The Dubliners, Other Voices, Aslan, Something Happens, The Frames, Don Baker, Thin Lizzy, The Cranberries, Sweeneys Men, Horslips, L.S.O., Bryn Terfel, Moving Hearts, Mick Flannery, Secret Garden, Paula O’Flynn, Declan O’Rourke, The Waterboys, Sharon Shannon, Frankie Gavin, The Monks of Glenstal, Clannad, Paul Brady, Daniel O’Donnell.
This far-from-complete list came from Tim’s Family. When we first spoke to them about a gig they asked that the funds would go to The Irish Hospice Foundation.
The Foundation came on board as did Aiken Promotions. We plan to have a good night in memory of our Dear Friend.
Tickets go on sale this Tuesday 18th December at 9am and will be available from:
All usual Ticketmaster outlets Nationwide
24hr Credit Card Bookings 0818 719300 (ROI) / 0844 277 4455 (NI)
Book on line www.ticketmaster.ie
Dear Listeners,
Christy will return to the Manchester Bridgewater Hall Oct 15th, and the Liverpool Philharmonic Oct 16th in 2019. Tickets on PRE-SALE HERE at 10AM Thursday December 6th.
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Dear Listeners,
We have added four extra shows to our list of gigs for 2019.
Mullingar, Saturday Feb 16th (on sale Dec 8th)
Gormanston, Saturday Feb 23rd (on sale Dec 8th)
Limerick, Saturday April 27th (on sale now)
Waterford, Saturday June 8th (on sale Dec 1st)
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Dear Listeners,
Aiken Promotions announced today that Christy Moore will return to play Live at the Marquee Cork in July. Tickets for this date go on sale this Thursday 15 November at 9am.
Christy recently released a new single Sail On Jimmy, which was recorded at the Marquee when he performed there earlier this year.
‘I just love singing Albert Niland’s song. More than any other, it has become an instant hit with audiences everywhere. We recorded this version at The Marquee in Cork on June 30th, 2018. 4,000 people, who had never heard the song before were singing beautifully by the end of the 3rd chorus….it was a joyful and memorable moment ….a stand out memory in 52 years of gigging.’ Christy …
Listen to Sail on Jimmy here: https://SMI.lnk.
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Dear Listeners,
We have recently added dates in Athlone (July) and Galway (August).
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
We have some exciting news! Christy returns to the Royal Festival Hall, London for two shows next May 24th and 25th. Here is the pre-sale link for our listeners to purchase tickets before the shows go on general release. This link will become live Thurs Oct 25th at 10AM.
https://www.eventim.co.uk/tickets.html?fun=erdetail&doc=erdetaila&erid=2312033&affiliate=3A2
Tickets go on sale to public from Fri Oct 26th at 10AM.
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Dear Listeners,
Sail on Jimmy is out today. I just love singing Albert Niland’s song. More than any other, it has become an instant hit with audiences everywhere. We recorded this version at The Marquee in Cork on June 30th, 2018. 4,000 people, who had never heard the song before, were singing beautifully by the end of the 3rd chorus. It was a joyful and memorable moment … a stand out memory in 52 years of gigging. You can listen to Sail on Jimmy and follow my Spotify playlist HERE.
Christy x
Dear Listeners,
We have added five new shows to the calendar for next year. Killarney – March 16th, Portlaoise – April 19th, Kilkenny – April 20th, Belfast – May 2nd and 3rd. All shows going on sale next week.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
We have just confirmed two shows at the Town Hall Theatre, Westport on March 5th and 6th. Tickets available from the Theatre Box Office and online Monday Oct 1st.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
We have added March 2019 dates in Wexford, Offaly, Meath and Monaghan, as well as two June shows at the Hawk’s Well Theatre in Sligo.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
There is lots of news for you this morning. We have new dates confirmed for 2019. Naas, Mullingar, Gormanston, Carrick on Shannon, Cavan, Limerick, Letterkenny and Waterford are all going on sale in the next few days.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
We have added Four Extra Vicar Street Shows to the calendar in the New Year!
Tues Jan 8th, Wed Jan 9th, Mon Jan 14th and Tues Jan 15th will all go on sale Friday Sept. 7th.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
We are pleased to let you know that our annual December/January shows in Vicar St. are now on sale …
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
We are pleased to let you know that our annual December/January shows in Vicar St. are going on sale next Wednesday Aug 29th at 9AM.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
We are adding a second show for the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Carlow on Saturday Sept 8th. Tickets available from the Theatre Box Office Thursday Aug 9th.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
We have just confirmed a return to the Clonmel Park Hotel on Saturday Sept 15th. Tickets go on sale Fri Aug 3rd.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
We have some terrific news. Second Shows have been added to Ratoath and Bray this summer.
Saturday July 28th, at the Venue Theatre, Ratoath. On sale Wed July 11th.
Saturday Aug 11th, at the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray. On sale Sat July 14th.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
Here are two new Solo performances for you to look forward to this summer.
Venue Theatre, Ratoath on Fri July 27th, and Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray on Fri Aug 10th. Both on sale next week.
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Christy …
Liverpool Philharmonic. May 5th
1.North and South of The River.
2.Quinte Brigada
3.Black is The Colour
4.McIlhatton
5.Lingo Politico
6.Burning Times.
7.Does this Train stop on Merseyside
8.Morecambe Bay.
9.Missing You
10.Quiet Desperation.
11.Irish Pagan Ritual
12.Go Move Shift.
13.Gortatagort
14.No Time for Love.
15.Raggle Taggle Gypsy
16 Cliffs of Dooneen
17.Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette
18.Voyage
19.Amsterdam
20.Yellow Triangle
21.Fairytale of New York
22.City of Chicago
23.Joxer in Stuttgart
24.Ride On.
25.Ordinary man.
26 John O Dreams
Kicked off in Liverpool. Always a great reception here since my first gig in Jacqui & Bridie’s Folk Club in 1967.
Many long-haul listeners last night, some crossed from Ireland, others came from Germany, Holland and France. we had a contingent down from Scotland.
I was delighted to meet Margaret and Irene who’ve been listening since we first met in Liverpool 50 years ago. And there they were last night, still full of their heart-warming enthusiasm for the songs.
Manchester Bridgewater May 6th
1.North and South of The River
2.Quinte Brigada
3.Black is The Colour
4.Lingo politico
5.Missing You
6.Beeswing
7.Go Move Shift
8.Companeros
9.Nancy Spain
10.Ordinary Man
11.Burning Times
12.Lisdoonvarna
13.Cliffs of Dooneen
14.Lightning Bird Wind River Man
15.Irish Pagan Ritual
16.Voyage
17.Fairytale of New York
18.Ride On
19.Billy Gray
21.Smoke & Strong Whiskey
22.The Dalesman’s Litany
23.Delerium Tremens
24.John O’Dreams
25.No Time for Love
Back again to where my journey first began. My singing started in child hood and continued through choirs, musicals, operettas and early rock & roll.
In my mid-teens I started into Folk Songs and guitar and the flame was lit. aged 21 I got my first real gig in Manchester and the tour began.
I’ll hit the 73 mark tomorrow and still the tour goes on. In 1966 I had a cheap guitar, a donkey jacket, a sleeping bag and very little else. 2018 and I have 3 fellow musicians, we have a crew of 8, a 40-foot truck and two minivans, but the heart of the matter is still the songs
That first gig was in The Old House at Home, an old pub in the suburb Blakeley. the room held 50 max and Mike Harding ran the club with Patricia. the entrance was 3/6 (three shillings and sixpence). Mike was host and compere, other (floor) singers that night was Tony Downes, Mike Canavan, Mary Asquith. I was the “turn” for the night and two 20-minute sets, about 12 songs in all. No microphones back then, lots of camaraderie and Wilsons Ale. Accommodation was floor space to roll out the sleeping bag (I stayed in 9 Kathkin Ave, Crumpsall) These times its major venues and hotels.
Free Day in Manchester May 7th.
Unlike earlier years, in recent times I need to rest the voice after 2 gigs. I can manage 2 gigs, take a night off, then 2 more gigs. these past years I have limited my UK stints to 4 gigs. This seems to suit everyone, most of us have families, some with young children, others with chadults and grand-children. those days of long long tours are over … Aberdeen Tuesday, Brighton Wednesday, Inverness Thursday….
so here I am on my 73rd Birthday, hiding from the heatwave with curtains drawn in a hotel room…resting the vocals, not talking, catching up, watching the Snooker, looking forward to a Rogan Josh and a few chapatis. I first encountered Indian Cuisine back in 1968. Dave and Heather Brady took me to Lumb Lane in Bradford (Saheed’s) where my taste buds first experienced the joy of Curry. later I would frequent Brick Lane in London, Moss Side in Manchester, Kushis in Edinburgh and many of the small eating houses frequented by working people from India and Pakistan.
May 8th. Morning early
Another day dawns. 7am, I wake, and thoughts turn instantly to tonight’s gig in Birmingham. I must try and play Matty, Cry Like a Man, Little Musgrave, Flickering Reel, tonight, maybe The Sun is Burning, I’ve not gigged that song for 30 years but learnt it in Birmingham. Barr na Sráide too, first, I must get up and put on the kettle. Its 100 miles today down the M6 – first time I played Birmingham they were still building the M6
Now we’re on that M6. the congestion is giving me indigestion. I spent 10 mins looking into Walsall Football Club and now Aston Villa is looming, but very slowly. we’re heading for the Symphony Hall tonight. It’s a real royal top notch venue where you could eat your dinner off the floor. It’s a long long way from “The Old Contemptible” pub where Mick Hipkiss ran his Folk Club 50 years ago. I tootled into town in my old blue 1956 VW Beetle like I was on the pigs back. I could not believe my good fortune to be living the life of a folk singer. To be on the road hearing new music, making new friends. here in the Midlands I heard “Boys of Barr na Sraide”, Come by The Hill” “The Sun Is Burning”, Hey Sandy”, “The Old Man’s Song”, “Letter to Syracuse” and “John O’Dreams”. met Ian and Lorna Cambell, Bob Cooney, The Munstermen, Dave Phillips, Dave Pegg, John Swift, Tommy Dempsey. living the dream, hearing the songs.
Evening May 8th Birmingham Royal Symphony Hall
I’d forgotten what a great venue this is – in the heart of the City. We got in at 4.30 for strong tea, sweet cake and a nice long sound check. some days the soundcheck is a routine matter and other days it can become a jam or a rehearsal. David Meade checks every corner and crevice to ensure that the sound travels to every seat. Dickon Whitehead mixes the monitor sound giving each of us what we need to hear. Geoff Ryan focuses the lights doing his best to hide treble chins and stained wardrobe. John Meade insures that the stage is set up precisely, all four positions to the inch, guitars restrung and tuned. come 7.30 we commence our warm up play until Michael Devine gives us the showtime ultimatum. out we go into the lap of the gods, out to face the assembled listeners from near and far, always hoping that we can deliver, determined to do so….
1.North and South
2.City of Chicago
3.McIlhatton
4.Burning Times.
5.Missing You
6.Cry like a man
7.Lingo Politico
8.Irsh Pagan Ritual
9.Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette
10.Cliffs of Dooneen
11.Raggle Taggle Gypsy
12.Bright Blue Rose
13.Quince Brigada
14.John O’Dreams
15Lisdoonvarna
16.Stitch in Time
17.Delerium Tremens
18.Magdalene Laundry
19.Go Move Shift
20.Billy Gray
21.Voyage
22.Fairytale of New York
23.Beeswing
24.Ordinary Man
25.Ride on
Early Morning May 9th
Different atmosphere in Birmingham. Neither better or worse, just different. at every gig my antenna is out, I’m wondering, wondering, trying to figure it all out, what will I play next, where to go from here. I seek to play something different every night, last night “Cry Like a Man “appeared from nowhere. sometimes I read it wrong but what matter! last night I had a sense of listeners travelling from all directions. I thought back to all those midland towns I played in my apprenticeship; Coventry, Wolverhampton, Walsall and an array of Cities Towns and Villages all boasting their own unique Folk Clubs. during the gig I fantasised that all those Folk Clubs had thronged into the Symphony Hall, that I was playing in a HUGE Folk Club to an assembly of old friends. then the lights went up to reveal eighteen hundred smiling applauding listeners most of them not born when those old Folk Clubs were in existence … all ages genders shapes sizes colours and religions united by the power of song. these songs don’t rely on fashion, pumped up PR, stage effect nor costume. some of these songs have resounded for centuries across borders over mountain valley and plain….
…. These times basket is brimming with a mixture of old and new…some ancient songs side by side with recent compositions…in my mind they sit well together…”The Well below The Valley” with “Burning Times”, “Dunlavin Green” with “No Time for Love” “Lisdoonvarna” with “The Rocky Road” …. Bob Dylan with Wally Page…. Joni Mitchell with Natalie Merchant… and a few of my own thrown in at the deep end….
now it’s time to pack the bags and head to York…
May 9th York Barbican Theatre
1.North and South
2.Go Move Shift
3.Cry Like A Man
4.McIlhatton
5.Morecambe Bay
6.Lingo politico
7.Nancy Spain
8.Irish Pagan Ritual
9.Burning Times
10.Fairytale New York
11.First Time ever I saw your face
12.Viva la Quince Brigada
13.Smoke and Strong Whiskey
14.Raggle Taggle Gypsy
15.Missing You
16.Black is the Colour
17.Hiroshima Nagasaki
18.Voyage
19.Ordinary man
20.The Dalesman’s Litany
21.Lisdoonvarna
22.Ride On
23.No Time for Love
…and so, we wrapped up a most enjoyable and successful (mini) English Tour. all 4 gigs went very well, and we encountered no major difficulties along the way. the trip home had added dimension that I’d not encountered before – we carried home the ashes of a Lady …a much-loved Aunt to one of our crew. this Lady lived most of her life in England spending her later years in a retirement home. she always longed to return home and we carried her on her final journey last night.
Michael and I boarded the 3am Irish Ferry out of Holyhead. 4 hours later I was home in the Kitchen, the kettle was on ….
Thank you all for making it work
Christy
Dear Listeners,
On Sale Wednesday June 27th at 12 noon.
Pavilion Theatre Dun Laoghaire, Fri August 31st and Sat September 1st.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
Here are two new dates for the diary:
Friday Sept 14th – Cappoquin Community Centre
Friday Nov 23rd – Charleville Park Hotel
Both dates go on sale Monday July 2nd.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
Tickets are now on sale for a Solo show Friday September 7th at the George Bernard Shaw Theatre in Carlow.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
The National Concert Hall has released additional Choir seats for next week’s shows on June 20th and 21st.
Seats on sale Wednesday June 13th at 10AM.
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Christy
Dear Listeners
We are pleased to let you know that a third Solo show has been added to the list at Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo. Tickets on sale from the venue today for show date Friday June 15th.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners
We have added a second summer show at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Tickets on sale now for gig on Thursday June 21st.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners
We have added a second show in Bundoran!
Tickets go on sale May 1st for new show on Saturday Oct 20th, 2018.
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Christy …
Dear Listeners,
Tickets go on sale this week for a show at the Dreamland Ballroom, Athy (a/k/a/ A.R.C.H) on Thursday July 19th.
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Christy …