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October 2007
October News

Holidays! I am playing a gig in Ireland with the New Shoes band on 11th October for the Irish Television program Blas Ceoil. BLAS CEOIL parks up at a venue in each county in Northern Ireland, a venue which already has the reputation of introducing and hosting the highest calibre of musicians in performance. 

To coin a common phrase in music circles, “bringing it all back home” is true of the line-up of musicians promised in the ten half hour television programmes during the series, complimented by an enhanced radio series on BBC Radio Ulster’s daily Irish language magazine “Blas”, and online service. 

The series is due to be broadcast from mid October. Line-up for the night's music in THE VAULT, (upstairs in the Bank Bar in Newry) will be: Nuala Kennedy & The New Shoes, featuring Claire Mann, Marc Clement, Donald Hay, Sebastian Gramms and Alan Kelly The 4 of Us Luan Parle (Wexford) Bill Coleman (Cork) The very next day after this concert, I am heading off to Sardinia for a holiday! Yippee! 

At the end of the month I am starting work on a new project with Philippe Guidat, who I met during my residency at OMI in August. 
He is an amazing Flamenco style guitarist.