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New tour dates, just announced!

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kathleen
on March 20, 2009
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Hi Folks

In May I will be out and about playing some concerts with the Kathleen Boyle band. I’m really looking forward to playing some gigs on the accordion and also at home in Scotland.  The band line up will be Kathleen Boyle – accordion, Martin O’Neill – bodhran, Jenna Reid – fiddle and Ewan Robertson on Guitar.

Here are the dates and venues

May 21      The Polish Club, Kirkcaldy
01592 653645 doors 8pm.

May 22      The Old Brewery, Cromarty
01381 600277 doors 7.30pm

May 23     CCA, Glasgow
0141 352 4900 doors 8pm
http://cca-glasgow.com/home

So come along as see us, would love to see you there!

Kathleen

Celtic Connections & the cruise!

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on February 10, 2009
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Hi Folks

I’d thought I’d drop by and let you know what i’ve been up to recently. 2009 started at Celtic Connections with a sold out show at the Tron Theatre on Jan 23rd. This was the very first Kathleen Boyle gig here in Scotland and it’s was fantastic to have a full house in my hometown Glasgow. There were plenty of familiar faces in the audience and a few new ones too so thanks a million for coming out to see us, hope you had as much a good time as we did. The band line up was Jenna Reid (fiddle), Martin O’Neill (Bodhran), Ewan Robertson (Guitar), Heidi Talbot (Vocals) and there were a few guest surprises from Hughie Boyle (Accordion), Michelle Burke (Vocals) and Phil Cunningham (Piano). A big thanks goes out to Cammy Young on sound, Kevin Morris, Donald Shaw, Debra Salem for a great first half, everyone at the Tron Theatre and Cheryl & Jack Turner as official flower presenters!

Earlier in the week the band recorded a few sets for the BBC Alba show Horo Gheallaidh so look out for it in the near future. We will also be out on tour in May 2009 so keep an eye on the website for gigs, we’d love to see you there.

After Celtic Connections it was time to head off to America to play piano with our band Cherish the Ladies. Every January we perform as part of an Irish festival cruise in the Caribbean and this years cruise was fantastic as ever. Performers included Cherish the Ladies, Maura O’Connell, Don Stiffe, The Black Brothers, Johnny McEvoy, Tommy Sands, The Matt Cunningham Band, John Gleeson, Mike Mazur, Donny Golden and Dan Stacey. 

We called at the ports of St. Maarten, Dominica, Grenada, Barbados and San Juan. This years cruise was particularly special as I had my parents, Hughie and Kathleen with me and they had a brilliant time. Can’t wait for the next one already!

I’m now back in New York and we’re about to start our Feb tour. I’m really looking forward to Alaska next week, I’ve heard so many great reports and I can’t wait to experience it for myself. I’ll be out here in America for the next few months with the Cherish crew so if you’re anywhere near us come along to a concert, check us out on cherishtheladies.com.

That’s all now

KTx

Celtic Connections concert announced

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kathleen
on November 24, 2008
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Hi Folks

I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be playing at Celtic Connections on Jan 23rd in the Tron Theatre at 8pm. It’s my first solo gig at the festival although I’ve performed there many times with Cherish the Ladies and Dochas. The band line up will be Kathleen Boyle – accordion, Martin O’Neill – Bodhran, Jenna Reid – fiddle, Ewan Robertson – guitar, & Heidi Talbot – vocals. We will be performing material from my new solo cd “An Cailin Rua” and I’m really looking forward to playing a concert at home in Glasgow. So come along and catch the gig we’d love to see you there!

Kathleen x

A busy few Months!

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kathleen
on September 23, 2008
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Hi folks

Here’s a wee update of what I’ve been getting up to in the last few months. I’ve had a really busy Summer performing with Cherish the Ladies out in America and a few of my own gigs in Ireland.  I had a the pleasure of performing at the Cleveland Ohio festival in July as part of the Cherish the Ladies summer tour, we then went on to teach for a week at the Augusta Heritage week in Elkins, West Virginia.  It was a great week and was honoured to have been there teaching alongside such amazing Irish musicians.

In August I had a two gigs with the Kathleen Boyle band in Co Donegal. The first was at the Mary from Dungloe festival, a big thanks to all who stood out in the pouring rain to see us perform. I hope it was worth the drenching, I’ve never seen rain like it before!

On August 12th we had a concert in Ionad Cois Locha, Dunlewey, Co Donegal. We launched the album at the concert, followed by a few tunes in the infamous Hudai Beag’s in Gweedore. Thanks to all who came along to see the band and also to Ian Smith for his help in organising the gig, it was a fab night!

At the end of August I took the trip down to the All-Ireland Fleadh Ceol in Tullmaore, Co Offaly.  The rain didn’t put a dampener on the weekend as there was plenty of craic, tunes, drams and my family and I had a brilliant time staying in the camper-van for the weekend – it’s definitely the way to go to a fleadh!  On the Sunday night I performed in the Senior Ceili band competition with the St Roch’s Ceili band, we didn’t get place but had a blast anyways.

I headed back to America with Cherish at the end of August for a few gigs, two of which were our new show called “An Irish Homecoming”.  This is a concert series of Cherish the Ladies with special guests such as Maura O’Connell, Bohola, Dermot Henry and a troup of Irish Dancers, check out www.cherishtheladies.com for more details.

I have now just finished a tour of the UK with Cherish the Ladies, we played 11 gigs in 13 days in England, Scotland and Wales.  It was the bands first trip up to the Scottish Highland to perform at Blas festival, being the only Scottish member I took great pleasure in showing off the highlands to them.  I also performed at Blas with the wonderful Rachel Walker, the Gaelic singer from Spean Bridge and Ewan Robertson (guitar). Our concert on September 9th in Glenmorriston was filmed by the BBC for the new Gaelic TV channel and will be aired as part of the Blas series so look out for it.

I’m now off for 3 weeks before heading back to America with Cherish the Ladies for a really busy winter so going to enjoy the time at home catching up with friends and family.

Cheers for now

Kathleen
Cherish the Ladies, Rachel Walker band, Ingrid Henderson, Gary Innes and Phil Cunningham at Blas Festival