Clonmel World Music very proudly presents: Mary Coughlan & Band, in Raheen House Hotel Clonmel, on Thursday 05th April. Mary's band will be Jimmy Smyth on Guitar Johnny Taylor on Piano, and Cormac O'Brien on Double Bass “Ireland has never produced a singer quite like Mary Coughlan. Indeed anything like Mary Coughlan. .”Irish Times Tom Waits has met his Irish match.” * * * *The UK Guardian Tickets for this great gig are on sale now, and are available online on www.clonmelworldmusic.com, and tickets will go on sale tomorrow in Marians Bookshop. O’Connell St. Clonmel , and South Tipperary Arts Centre, Nelson Street Clonmel, Don't delay, get your tickets asap !

Very sad news about one of the giants of Irish Music. RIP. A big loss https://youtu.be/P2gjQ2SMF2s

Song For A Sunday 52, an occasional Song For A Sunday.. For mothers day, this is an Irish mother , icon, legend, and truly exceptional woman from Galway, who has always maintained her strength, attitude and spirit. A really great Irish Mammy ! We are so so so thrilled, proud and delighted to be hosting Mary Coughlan, with full 3 piece band, on Thursday 05th April in Raheen House. Tickets on sale now, from Gerry Lawless on 086-3389619 or at https://www.clonmelworldmusic.com/events/mary-coughlan-2018/ It all began with this song, with repeated plays on Nightrain in 1985.

highly recommends a great festival of music in Clonmel from this Thur to Sat. Some very tasty shows, all run by The South Tipperary Arts Centre, which is doing great work for the Arts in Clonmel. Support Live Music..

Song For A Sunday 51. To relieve the boredom here is a brilliant song from a brilliant artist. American Rod Picott writes and sings some of the best modern songs about the plight of the modern working man.......... Worth a youtube ramble today......hopefully all back to normal tomorrow

Along with artists like Pokey Lafarge, Woody Pines continues to forage through the secret world of old 78′s and to write new chapters in the Anthology of American Music. Integrating sounds from Leadbelly to Bob Dylan, from Woodie Guthrie to Preservation Hall, Woody Pines belts out songs of fast cars, pretty women and hard luck with a distinctive vintage twang. The bands distinctive viper sound is brought together by Woody who plays the National Guitar, harmonica and floor tom, singing in a voice sounding uncannily like a young Willie Nelson. Its proper to call Woody Pines new songs “hillbilly boogie;” a rarely remembered genre of American music made famous by the Delmore Brothers. Hillbilly boogie sits at the exact moment when the buzzed- out, electrified hillbilly country music of Appalachia (which itself drew heavily from country blues), first hit the sawdust-floored honky-tonks of old Nashville and Memphis. It was the moment exactly before the birth of rock ‘n’ roll. Woody writes with a wink to this critical time on songs like “Anything for Love” and “New Nashville Boogie,” drawing in modern references at will to make his points. He also dives deep into the tradition, drawing up gems like the old gangsta- folk song “Make It to the Woods” from the Mississippi Sheiks. In Woody’s music, there’s never an idea that roots music should be a recreation of an older time. Instead, he taps the vein of this music that’s still beating today, finding common ground with the oldhucksters and bar-hounds who created the music in the first place

Mary Coughlan is one of our greatest female singers, because over thirty-three years and sixteen albums she’s made the most grown-up, uncompromising, wholly personal and utterly universal music on either side of the Atlantic about what goes on between men and women. She has taken the classic standards of jazz balladry and the recent gems of rock and Irish song-writing, shaken them and offered them up anew. She sings in the voice of the wrong and wronged woman and she makes us think what it is men make of women and what women have to do to make do. But this is not why Mary Coughlan is the greatest female vocalist these islands have ever produced. It’s not even why she stands alongside, or even between, the bruised, battered but unbeaten giants of jazz chanson on both sides of the Atlantic, Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf. Mary Coughlan is the only singer these shores have produced to rival the greatest of European cabaret and American jazz club blues because of one thing: her voice.Don't miss this show !

Sadly The Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Irish Tour has fallen foul of the damned snow storms, so our Clonmel world Music show tomorrow night is off. Such a shame, but we will have them back whenever the tour is re-arranged. We had a lovely school show arranged for tomorrow also, where the pupils have been practicing this great song to perform for the band. Enjoy the few days off, and be careful out there !

Only 1 week to go until we welcome Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra, to Raheen House Hotel, on Thursday 01st March. “That’s one hot band right there! – Huey Morgan, BBC Radio “Newcastle’s finest swing-honkytonk-rockabilly band” – fRoots. Tickets are on sale now, and are available online on www.clonmelworldmusic.com, in Marians Bookshop. O’Connell St. Clonmel , from South Tipperary Arts Centre, Nelson Street Clonmel, or from Gerry Lawless on 086 3389619.

Clonmel World Music very proudly presents: Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra, in Raheen House Hotel, on Thursday 01st March. They play their own unique brand of Western Swing, Blues, Gypsy Jazz and Country, or “North Eastern Swing” as they’ve coined it. Influenced by early 20th century American music, with the addition of “razor-sharp” solos, great arrangements and original songs; their music harks back to a golden age whilst staying perfectly modern. Tickets for this great gig are on sale now, and are available online on www.clonmelworldmusic.com, in Marians Bookshop. O’Connell St. Clonmel , from South Tipperary Arts Centre, Nelson Street Clonmel, or from Gerry Lawless on 086 3389619. Come on down for some good honest music !!

Recommends this great gig in a great venue in Roscrea tomorrow night.. PM me for lift from Clonmel. KAIA KATER LEAP CASTLE ROSCREA . SAT 27TH JAN 9PM. TEL/TEXT 0872238040 T0 RESERVE. Support live music..