Arts Council Awards €110,451 for Traditional and Folk Albums
The Arts Council has awarded €110,451 to 19 recipients under the latest round of the Deis Recording and Publications Award. 58 applications were received for the award, which is specifically for the traditional arts.
Recipients include Ye Vagabonds – the duo of Brían and Diarmuid Glynn – who received €9,840 to support their forthcoming album; a project to produce a website focusing on the music and life of fiddle-player John Kelly was awarded €9,997; Raelach Records received €7,000 to release a new album by the fiddle trio Fidil, produced by Jack Talty; and accordionist Fiachna Ó Mongáin, TG4 Young Musicians of the Year in 2013, was awarded €5,400 to produce a solo album.
The judging panelists were Áine Hensey, Conal Ó Grada and Liam O’Connor. For full details on all awards, see below.
Deis Recording and Publications Award 2017
Aoife Kelly
Website focused on the music and life of John Kelly.
€9,997
Daniel Delaney
To publish the music contained in a recently discovered Delaney manuscript.
€9,845
Brían Glynn
Ye Vagabonds album of folk songs in Irish and English, particularly inspired by the song traditions of Arranmore Island, Donegal, Ulster and Scotland.
€9,840
Damien McGeehan
Album of new compositions.
€9,814
Comhchoiste Ghaeltacht Uibh Ráthaigh
Research and make a song collection and to publish and launch the book Amhráin Uíbh Ráthaigh Imleabhar 2.
€8,500
Raelach Records
Produce an album by Donegal trio Fidil.
€7,000
Cormac Breatnach
Produce an album of original compositions.
€6,000
Josephine Marsh
Record a 12-track traditional Irish music solo CD with guests Mick Kinsella (harmonica), Angelina Carberry (banjo), Jack Kinsella (uileann pipes), Andrew Kinsella (banjo) and Gerry Madden (mandolin).
€5,500
Séamus McGuire
Record a selection of music from the nineteenth-century manuscripts of the Leitrim collector Stephen Grier.
€5,500
James Carty
To record a debut CD of fiddle music exploring the North Connaught regional style.
€5,435
Fiachna Ó Mongáin
Recording featuring traditional Irish music on the c#d button accordion. The recording will draw primarily from the musical repertoire of Northwest Mayo.
€5,400
Ceol Productions
Book focusing on 15 celebrated Irish traditional fiddlers from County Sligo.
€5,250
Helen Diamond
Recording of traditional unaccompanied singing in the Northern style, focusing on obscure, previously unrecorded songs.
€4,450
Colm Gannon
With Jimmy Canavan, to research, rehearse, record and produce a CD of traditional accordion music and sean-nós singing from Connemara.
€4,080
Mícheál Ó Catháin
Extend, edit and transcribe audio/video interviews with prominent early Irish harpers, and create a website to host the interviews.
€4,000
Danny Diamond
€3,950
Fiddle album combining music from the Irish tradition with production/arrangement techniques from pop and experimental music.
Fergus McGorman
€3,000
Compile and rehearse 13 tracks of tunes from the north Connaught locality and recent compositions.
Aileen Lambert
€1,990
Record first album featuring solo unaccompanied traditional ballads in the English language.
Ríonach Uí Ógáin
€900
Remastering of recordings for re-print of Mount Callan Garland (The Songs of Tom Lenihan) in an updated format.
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