The Gloaming have been announced as 2014 Meteor Choice Prize Winner for Irish Album of the Year. The 10th annual Meteor Choice Music Prize celebrates and acknowledges the best in Irish recorded music. They have also been nominated for three awards in the forthcoming BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
A second sold-out performance at the Union Chapel and The Gloaming provide yet another spectacular celebration of traditional Irish music and culture with a decidedly modern twist.
The Gloaming is a time between night and day a world between worlds, the music of this quintet occupies the spaces between the tradition and the modern, the mystery and the beauty.
The Gloaming features five well known virtuosic musicians: Iarla Ó Lionaird, Thomas Bartlett, Dennis Cahill, Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh. Here’s a taster of their self titled debut album due out 20th Jan 2014.
Folk Radio UK and The Barbican are offering readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to see The Gloaming with Iarla Ó Lionaird, Thomas Bartlett (Doveman), Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh this month!
Irish band Bell X1 shave the sonics down on their latest release Chop Chop which was produced by Peter Katis & Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman). The results are spectacular….listen to ‘Starlings Over Brighton Pier’
Following the release of Foxlight, we were lucky enough to persuade Iarla Ó Lionaird to address a few questions about the album itself and his other projects.
