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&7 MANAGEMENT AND PROJECTS : ENDS 

&7 Management and Projects has stopped operating with it's principal Gary Sheehan moving to a new role at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. 

Current Contacts for Artists : 

The Gloaming : barquemgmt.com

Cathal Coughlan : cathalcoughlan.com

Thread Pulls : threadpulls.com

Iarla O'Lionaird : iarla.com

Rainfear : rainfear.com

Thanks for your support and interest in this music. 

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&7 MANAGEMENT AND PROJECTS : ENDS 

&7 Management and Projects has stopped operating with it's principal Gary Sheehan moving to a new role at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. 

Current Contacts for Artists : 

The Gloaming : barquemgmt.com

Cathal Coughlan : cathalcoughlan.com

Thread Pulls : threadpulls.com

Iarla O'Lionaird : iarla.com

Rainfear : rainfear.com

Thanks for your support and interest in this music. 

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THE GLOAMING ANNOUNCE INTIMATE IRISH SHOWS IN DECEMBER

Having recently completed recording of their debut album which is due for release in Spring 2013, The Gloaming will end the year with a series of intimate Irish shows.

Sunday 2nd December, The Pepper Canister Church, Dublin

Info : http://aikenpromotions.com/

Wednesday 5th December, Triskel Christchurch, Cork

Info : http://triskelartscentre.ie/events/2223/the-gloaming/

Thursday 6th December, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge

Info : http://www.riverbank.ie/shows/the-gloaming-0

Friday 7th December, Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire

Info : http://paviliontheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873486084/events

Sunday 8th December, The Limelight, Belfast

Info : http://www.movingonmusic.co.uk/

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THE GLOAMING AT GROUSE LODGE 

The Gloaming have just hit Grouse Lodge to start recording on their debut album. Martin Hayes, Iarla O'Lionaird, Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh, Dennis Cahill and Thomas Bartlett are joined by mix engineer Patrick Dillett known for his work with David Byrne, Hannah Cohen, Glen Hansard and many more... 

The photo features Patrick, Iarla and an unnamed toy...

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BOWERBIRD - MODERN FOLK AND BEYOND FOR CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL 

Choice Music prize-winning songwriter Adrian Crowley and Gary Sheehan, &7 and  have curated a weekend of music around the idea of modern folk for the festival. 

Onsale now. 

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THE GLOAMING RELEASE LIVE IN DUBLIN EP AS FREE DOWNLOAD WITH THE TICKET AND IRISHTIMES.COM THIS FRIDAY 20TH APRIL The Gloaming featuring Martin Hayes, Thomas Bartlett, Iarla O'Lionaird, Dennis Cahill and Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh Live at Vicar Street Saturday 12th May.  Special Guest Sam Amidon. 

"Their live performances so far have been revelatory… Future dates are likely to cement them as one of the great forces in Irish music."  The Irish Times

Ahead of the band's only Irish show this summer, The Gloaming release Live in Dublin, as a free download with The Ticket andirishtimes.com tomorrow Friday 13th April. A masterful slice of their debut sold-out show at the National Concert Hall, Dublin last August, the Live in Dublin EP is one 21 minute track which captures the power and excitement of  live.

The band are also pleased to announce Sam Amidon as support for their show at Vicar Street on Saturday 12th May. 

The New Yorker on Live In Dublin EP :  "The Gloaming unites musicians who come at Irish music from different perspectives. The master fiddler Martin Hayes, who grew up in County Clare, and the guitarist Dennis Cahill, his longtime partner, ground the group in the traditional. So does Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, who was born in Dublin and plays the fiddle, five-string viola, and hardanger fiddle, which is the national instrument of Norway. The vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird shares their approach, he’s a master of the sean-nós song, but like the hardanger fiddle, his background suggests something else might be afoot, he recorded a number of albums with Afro Celt Sound System in the nineties.

But The Gloaming doesn’t have a world-music sound. What it does have is Thomas Bartlett, a young piano player and songwriter who has worked with Yoko Ono, Bebel Gilberto, David Byrne, Antony, Grizzly Bear, Nico Muhly, and the National, as well as recorded a series of quiet, intense albums as Doveman. Barlett’s sparse, subtle piano playing is laced through the Gloaming’s music, moving it, and the music of Ireland, in captivating new directions" 

Sam Amidon :  The show will see Sam reunited with his childhood friend Thomas Bartlett of The Gloaming who he formed a band with at the age of eleven called Popcorn Behaviour! 

Sam Amidon was born and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont by folk musicians Peter and Mary Alice Amidon. He has released three albums of radically re-worked folksongs: "But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted," recorded at his then-home of Harlem in 2006 with Thomas Bartlett; followed by "All Is Well" in 2008 and his latest "I See The Sign" in 2010, both recorded in Iceland with producer Valgeir Sigurðsson.

Sam started on fiddle at the age of three and by eleven had formed a band called Popcorn Behavior, with childhood friend Thomas Bartlett and younger brother Stefan, to play New England fiddle tunes. They toured internationally, gathering attention from NPR, CNN and The Boston Globe and releasing five albums by the time they graduated from pretend high school which they did not really go to (at the time it was called "homeschooling"). His first solo album, released in 2001, was a collection of traditional Irish fiddle tunes, simply titled "Solo Fiddle." Since moving to New York City in 2002 that he began to play and experience first-hand all of these other kinds of things. Since then he has collaborated with a myriad of artists including Nico Muhly, Thomas Bartlett, Beth Orton, Shahzad Ismaily, Glen Hansard, and Bill Frisell.

FURTHER INFORMATION : LIVE IN DUBLIN EP :  The Gloaming : Live in Dublin EP  Tracklisting : Intro (21.33) Recorded live at The National Concert Hall, 20th August, 2011.  All songs traditional and arranged by The Gloaming  Recorded and mixed by Phil Hayes The Gloaming : Thomas Bartlett, Dennis Cahill, Iarla O'Lionaird, Martin Hayes, Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh

SHOW DETAILS :  Harmonic presents THE GLOAMING Feat: Thomas Bartlett, Dennis Cahill, Martin Hayes, Iarla  Ó Lionaird, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & very special guest Sam Amidon Vicar Street  Saturday May 12th Doors 7pm / show starts 8pm Tickets on sale Friday 24th February priced €28 (incl booking fee) from www.ticketmaster.ie  & Ticketmaster outlets nationwide. 0818 719 300 - Republic of Ireland customers 0844 277 4455 - Northern Ireland customers 00353 1 456 9569 - International customers

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THE GLOAMING EP : LIVE IN DUBLIN : AVAILABLE ON THE NEW YORKER 

The Gloaming release their debut EP, Live in Dublin, on The New Yorker for free download. The EP is taken from their debut live show at The National Concert Hall, Dublin, on August 20th, 2011. 

Get it here : 

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/03/listen-to-the-gloaming.html

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THE GLOAMING ANNOUNCE VICAR STREET SHOW ON MAY 12TH 

The Gloaming and a very special guest will play Vicar Street for an exclusive Irish show this summer on May 12.

Tickets and info here :

http://www.aikenpromotions.com/index.php?option=com_eventlist&id=9228&view=details

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THE IRISH TIMES ANTICIPATES THE GLOAMING RELEASES

25 things to look forward to in 2012.... The Gloaming album It was short, but The Gloaming’s summer tour was invigorating and potentially seminal, with the music bracing and beautiful in equal measure. The supergroup of sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, fiddle players Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, guitarist Dennis Cahill and classically trained pianist Thomas Bartlett grew from sessions at Grouse Lodge Studios, in Westmeath, early this year. From those recordings will come an album, but before that may be a live EP. Their live performances so far have been revelatory, and they play New York’s GlobalFest in January. Future Irish dates are likely to cement them as one of the great forces in Irish music - The Irish Times 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/1231/1224309661673.html

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THE GLOAMING JOIN INTERNATIONAL MUSIC NETWORK 

The Gloaming have joined International Music Network's roster for live representation worldwide. 

Please see : http://imnworld.com/artists/detail/214/The-Gloaming

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THE GLOAMING : US Debut on January 8th and more news

The Gloaming make their US debut this weekend when they play Webster Hall, NYC as part of Globalfest. 

Show info can be found here : http://www.globalfest-ny.com/

The show is heavily featured in U.S. press... 

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/03/144442821/the-mix-the-sounds-of-globalfest

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/globalfest-2012-world-music-revealed-a-single-show-webster-hall-article-1.1000359

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CATHAL COUGHLAN AND LUKE HAINES ANNOUNCE FIRST IRISH NORTH SEA SCROLLS SHOWS

LUKE HAINES, CATHAL COUGHLAN

with Andrew Mueller and Audrey Riley

THE NORTH SEA SCROLLS

Friday 2nd December, Triskel Christchurch, Cork 

Saturday 3rd December, The Sugar Club, Dublin. 

The North Sea Scrolls have long been a bone of contention amongst historians, theologians and people shouting at bins in car parks. The Scrolls are believed, in certain quarters, to record a parallel, semi-hidden history of these islands. Now, a triumvirate of unlikely questers has at last pinned down the full story of these legendary documents. They are; Luke Haines, who has recorded as The Auteurs,
Baader Meinhof, Black Box Recorder and solo; Cathal Coughlan, who has recorded as Microdisney, Fatima Mansions, Bubonique and solo; Andrew Mueller, journalist and author.

This dauntless trio are now ready to share the terrible knowledge they have disinterred. In song.  The parchments reached the hands of messrs Haines, Coughlan and Mueller by means which need not trouble us, and have been meticulously distilled and tactfully rewritten into fourteen new songs by Mr Haines and Mr Coughlan, to be performed on guitar and piano, and accompanied by the cello stylings of Audrey Riley. The songs will be linked by explanatory footnotes read by Mr Mueller.

The truths contained in the scrolls are at once profoundly disturbing and peculiarly reassuring. Certainly, they answer many long-pressing questions. How did a Dublin criminal overlord become an imperial
viceroy? Is England really just two counties – Northshire and Southshire? Could it be that the guttering violence of Northern Ireland is caused by terrorist tribute acts from Australia? Who is Tony Allen? How did Tim Hardin end up commanding a nationalist militia in Cornwall? Can it be true that Morris Men, far from the prancing buffoons of popular repute, are murderous vigilantes – a Cotswoldian thugee cult? Was Chris Evans really burnt at the stake? If not, why not? Is Jim Corr actually right about everything?

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Iarla Ó Lionáird - Foxlight (Real World Records) - 26 September And Album Release Shows...  15 September, Belltable, Limerick 16 September, The Sugar Club, Dublin 17 September, Triskel Christchurch, Cork  23 September, St Giles in the Fields, London Iarla O'Lionáird tours to mark the release his new solo album Foxlight on Realworld Records on September 26th. 2012 has already been a productive year for the singer. May saw the release of Donnacha Dennehy’s Grá agus Bás (Nonesuch Records) in which Iarla features as a soloist on the title piece. He has also just completed a the debut tour including a sell-out show at The National Concert Hall, of a new band The Gloaming with Dennis Cahill, Dennis Hayes, Tom Bartlett and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh. Now he returns to his solo work... For his third solo album - Foxlight – the acclaimed singer Iarla Ó Lionáird delivers an impassioned and sublime set of personal songs, combining the twin urges to write more new material and yet also work with an intriquing set of collaborators. The experience and varying tonality of each contribution here makes this a record that shimmers with versatility. Whilst rooted in certain traditions, it is also unclassifiable and refuses to be located in one genre or another. It’s one of Ó  Lionáird’s most organic, naturalistic records to date. Instrumentation and layers are embedded in each song, but ultimately it’s about Iarla’s exquisite, sonically unique voice.  From his early days as a sean-nós singer, to The Gloaming and Afro Celt Sound System, his collaborative and solo work, Ó Lionáird has always ploughed his own artistic furrow. His work is very connected to the totems of traditional Irish music – sean-nós, the Irish language, traditional instrumentation – but various projects have broadened his experience and understanding in the multi-faceted nature of music. Nurtured on childhood songs, the Celtic rhythms that underpin the Afro-Celt sound and collaborations with composers Gavin Bryars and Donnacha Dennehy, there is much more to Ó Lionáird’s exceptional gift than merely being a sean-nós singer. “People ascribe a lot of things to me musically - Cúil Aodha, Sean-nós, traditional… all of those sacred cows. They’re certainly there, but I’ve always been a journeyman. With this record, I wanted to do things I hadn’t done before and that’s also because my way of listening has changed.”  A host of diverse musicians contribute to these songs. Composer Jon Hopkins, strings duo Geese, folktronica innovator Leafcutter John and fiddle and hardanger player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, helped provided the eclectic, epic sweep of these compositions. Central to the album’s inception was producer Leo Abrahams. Ó Lionáird produced the last record himself, but this time around decided that “singing, writing and expressing” were his priority. “This time, I’ve tried to just experience the voice, I wanted to reach new levels of expression”. Abrahams is a talented guitarist who has gravitated towards the production end of music. Having worked with Brian Eno, Paul Simon and Ed Harcourt, Abrahams brought a huge amount to bear on the record, according to Ó Lionáird. Iarla cites an acute observation Abrahams made on ‘Eleanor Plunkett’, which sums up the trust that lies in their working relationship. “The song was a blizzard of ornamentation, because I was singing it the way harpers play it. Leo said there was “an over abundance of melismatic activity”; it was a joke we had, but he was right so I stripped it all away.”  The ensemble of musicians involved is just as intriguing, given their varied musical backgrounds and disciplines. Abrahams plays guitar on the songs, as does Neil McColl; Leafcutter John offered multi-textured electronics, while accomplished players, Sarah and Vince of Geese provided strings. Jon Hopkins’ complex piano compositions feature heavily too. On 'Daybreak', Iarla is joined by a female singer, from a vocal tradition with a similar aural history to his own sean-nós. Sara Marielle Gaup of Norwegian act Adjagas is a Sami singer, expert at yoiking. The two performed together at a church in Dublin and the shared narrative of the relationship to time and land is something Ó Lionáird was drawn to, and calls “quasi-shamanic.” His old friend fiddler Caoimhín Ó’Rathalliagh is central to the album. Ó Lionáird describes him as “an explorer who creates these large, deep sound fields around a note. He puts this beautiful dirt back in to the traditional.”  “There’s very little synthesis on this record”, reveals the singer. “I’ve learnt to sing a certain way because of the way I listen to music. I really feel that before I even said I decided to be a singer, my body, my mind and my psyche had been co-moulded with songs, to such an extent that I wouldn’t be able to sing the way I do where it not for the fact that my body wants to, and I get intense joy out of doing it. It’s a complete sort of feeling.” That complete feeling echoes throughout the songs. ‘The Heart of the World’ opens with an atmospheric vocal of compressed wisdoms and proverbs. Shot through with pastoral rhythms and birdsong, it introduces the countryside setting that prevails throughout. “It’s a song about renewal”, says Ó Lionáird, “I’ve known people who’ve had to lose everything to get anything.  This song talks about what is profound and important in life. It’s about the loneliness of the soul, but it’s an ecstatic loneliness”. ‘Daybreak’, featuring Sarah from Adjagas and is a nocturnal measured piece. Ó Lionáird is aware of this coincidental twinning and is happy with it. The latter comes from the Goodman Collection, and is a song many learn to play on the tinwhistle. “I learnt it from the great Steve Cooney and it’s very much like a vision song. It’s very diaphanous, spooky… and is a song about light.” ‘Eleanor Plunkett’ was made famous by harper Turlough O’Carolan and Ó Lionáird likens this version - with piano and guitar – to American folk in the Bob Dylan tradition. ‘Foxlight’, an anthropomorphic Ted Hughes ode to the country, is built on the electronic flourishes of Leafcutter John. Originally taught to him by his mother, ‘The Goat Song’ is a traditional song noted as a classic for its simplicity, which Iarla wanted to acknowledge.  Unsurprisingly, the inspiration behind ‘For The Heavens’ came from skywards. Ó Lionáird that sense of scale, and when I was small, I would drag my dad out at night to watch satellites tracking across the sky. That song is really about the blessings of home and how they rain down on you. It’s almost a prayer of thanks for the heaven I have here in my home”. Perhaps the most celebratory song on Foxlight is ‘Hand in Hand’, an exultant love song, with a falsetto chorus. It echoes back to the singer’s childhood, but is ultimately a love song about his wife, featuring strings duo Geese. Written by a poet friend Domhnall O’ Liathain, ‘Imeacht’/’A Leave-taking’ is “an inverted vision song”. It laments the loss of human ecology and old rituals. ‘Seven Suns’ is an ancient monastic work of praise featuring huge amounts of instrumentation. “It’s a prayer song, celebrating every day,” says Ó Lionáird. “Despite my atheism, I felt a transcendence at the end of this song, and we did it in one take.” The album concludes with the circular themes of family and mortality, in the form of ‘Stay’. Jon Hopkins plays piano and lyrically it examines the hereafter and death.  “It is a song written for my dad, where I tried to emphasise the Irish word for stay, which is ‘fán’. All eleven songs are imbued with a sense of time and place, of connections and myths. From ancient rhythms to modern electronics, Ó Lionáird’s exceptional voice is the fulcrum around which everything pivots.  (Text edited from original words by Sinéad Gleeson)  SHOW DETAILS : Thursday 15th September, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick belltable.ie Friday, 16th September, The Sugar Club, Dublin note.ie  Saturday, 17th September, Triskel Christchurch, Cork triskelartscentre.ie Friday 23rd September, St Giles in the Fields, London. jointhecircle.net Brand new CD: FoxlightLabel: Real WorldCat No: CDRW184Release date: September 2011Distribution: Proper

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THE IRISH TIMES REVIEW THE GLOAMING'S SOLD OUT DEBUT AT NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

“Martin Hayes and his newly convened compadres took an audacious leap of faith into the unknown – and in that leap, drew their audience into a magnetic underworld where light and dark, old and new coalesced to compelling effect…. 

The Gloaming fully exploited the rich sonic possibilities which Thomas Bartlett’s piano, Dennis Cahill’s guitar and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh’s fiddles brought to the party…. The warmth of Ó Lionáird’s voice was immediately evident, as were the show-stopping impact of Vermont-born Bartlett’s lines on the piano…

The Gloaming’s newly forged songs were a revelation. A rendering of Michael Hartnett’s Muince An Dreoilín/A Necklace of Wrens soared on the back of Ó Lionáird’s beautiful Munster Irish, as did the deliciously rough-edgedSamhradh… 

Hayes and Ó Raghallaigh are two immensely differing fiddlers but both are fearless in their pursuit of mood music.

This was music of an entirely different hue: neither slavishly traditional nor wilfully contemporary, it sought out uncharted terrain (some of which was undoubtedly familiar) – and, most impressively, welcomed their audience as essential passengers on that journey.” Siobhan Long, The Irish Times

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/0822/1224302806432.html

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INTERVIEW WITH CATHAL COUGHLAN, LUKE HAINES, ANDREW MUELLER ON NORTH SEA SCROLLS IN THE QUIETUS

http://thequietus.com/articles/06785-north-sea-scrolls-cathal-coughlan-luke-haines-andrew-mueller

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THE GLOAMING INTERVIEWED IN THE IRISH TIMES 

The band are interviewed in The Irish Times in advance of their Irish Tour. 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/0818/1224302628710.html

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THE GLOAMING REVEAL THIR FIRST MUSIC AND NEW SITE

In advance of their debut shows this month, The Gloaming, have unveiled an online presence and a track from their initial sessions at Grouse Lodge in February to give folks a sense of what this remarkable new band sounds like. 

The band's unique take on Óró, Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile can be streamed from the band's site now.  The Gloaming can be found online at : http://thegloamingmusic.tumblr.com/ Note Production present The Gloaming live for the following dates :  Saturday 20th August, National Concert Hall, Dublin presented by National Concert Hall as part of ESB Live Sunday 21st August, An Grianan, Letterkenny Wednesday 24th August, The Model, Sligo Thurdsay 25th August, The Riverbank, Kildare Friday 26th August, Cork Opera House, Cork Saturday 27th August, Glor, Ennis Sunday 28th August, Mandela Hall, Belfast