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Thurs 8:30pm (2nd Feb ’17)’Cruises’

Join Jimmy Clancy, myself and all our visitors – regular and new – in Ennis tonight. Open seisiún at Cruises Bar under the hospitality of Pat and Teresa! 🙂 We had no photos taken last week so here are a couple from the previous week. We’ll probably be here at Cruises St Patrick’s Day EVE – so you can be planning ahead now! 😉

Orla, Áine, Jimmy, Bill, Patrick, Jerry and Colm. Photo by Betty Connor
Áine Heslin and Jimmy Clancy. Photo by Betty Connor.
Sean nós dancing before our session finished – thanks Satoshi.

Posted by  |  February 2, 2017 | Categories: Ennis Co Clare, Tourism, Traditional Music, Wild Atlantic Way | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Thurs trad/Cruises (- almost Feb?)

All are welcome to come in to Cruises Bar Thurs weekly at 8:30pm and listen/join in…we’re having a ball! Tunes, tunes and more tunes. Jimmy Clancy has a store of old one and new ones which keeps things buzzin’. Many visiting musicians each week – from all corners of the world! Some photos from last week taken by our visiting fiddler, Betty Connor – thanks for sharing them Betty!

Go to https://aineheslinmusic.com/shop/ to hear some tracks from my CD ‘The Tunes Foundry’

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Orla, Áine, Jimmy, Bill, Patrick, Jerry and Colm. Photo by Betty Connor

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Áine Heslin and Jimmy Clancy. Photo by Betty Connor.

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Áine, Jimmy, Bill, Patrick, Jerry and Colm. Photo by Betty Connor

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Sean nós dancing before our session finished – thanks Satoshi.

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Áine Heslin and Jimmy Clancy. Photo by Betty Connor.

Posted by  |  January 25, 2017 | Categories: Ennis Co Clare, Tourism, Wild Atlantic Way | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Thurs 19th Jan 8:30pm (Cruises)

Join us for some tunes tonight if you’re in town – Jimmy Clancy on accordion and myself, Áine Heslin on flute, and our visitors of course!! Some photos from last Thurs.

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John, Patsy, Paula, Mick (taking a break) Mícheal, Jerry and – I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten our Italian flute-player’s name!!

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Colm, Satoshi, myself and Jimmy.

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Bill, Betty, Aiden, Kieran and John.

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Betty, Aiden, Kieran, John and Patsy.

Posted by  |  January 19, 2017 | Categories: Ennis Co Clare, Tourism, Traditional Music | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Thurs session in Cruises/Jan 12th

You coming in tonight? Cruises Bar 8:30pm. Put on your Uggs and snowboots…and be careful – could be some very precarious music played – risky reels, jigs in jeopardy and a hazardous hornpipe or two. (For those of you countries with lots of snow – just to let you know – we’re MAYBE in for between 1 and 3cm! So lots of prep!) Here are a few photos of last week – might not have everybody in photos, apologies. Lovely night.

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Jimmy and Michael having the craic! 🙂

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Michael, Betty, Bill and Jerry

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Satoshi joining in!

 

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Mick and Paula.

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Orla on keyboards

Posted by  |  January 12, 2017 | Categories: Ennis Co Clare, Tourism, Traditional Music | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Thurs 5th Jan 2017

Back in Cruises, Ennis tonight at 8:30pm with Jimmy Clancy and a host of visitors – feel free to come in and join us for the tunes, the broken resolutions, the keeping of the resolve to play/meet with friends and sure where would we be without our great audience who keep us motivated to play our best!

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Posted by  |  January 5, 2017 | Categories: Ennis Co Clare, Tourism, Traditional Music, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

It was 2016’s last Thurs seisiún…!:)

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Lovin’ the tune! Patsy, Ritchie and Michael at Cruises Thurs night session – also Michael behind Patsy on the left.

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There was a great gang (flute players Bill and Áine missing from the photos) and many fine tunes were played Thurs night and I want to thank the listeners (mostly out of the pictures) who gave such great appreciation that everyone had a ball! Happy New Year to all!

See you at the Cruises Thurs night sessions in….2017! (Thurs Jan5th) 😉

 

Posted by  |  December 31, 2016 | Categories: Ennis Co Clare, Tourism, Traditional Music, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Thurs 29th Dec 2016

What better than to be spending time with friendly musicians who continue to join us every Thurs in Cruises Bar from 8:30 for those couple of hours with tunes, stories of woe or of laughter and always welcoming some new friendly faces!! This time, as well as welcoming as many musicians as want to come – we would particularly like to invite people to come and listen to all these diverse instrumentalists with their different talents – FREE CONCERT in effect (apart from the price of a drink and a taxi). We don’t claim to be world class at all times (you can never tell who is in town though..!) and love to have the warmth of a friendly audience around us. Thank you for all the support this past year. Paula O’Regan and Patsy Hanrahan are planning to be there – a great start!

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Posted by  |  December 28, 2016 | Categories: Ennis Co Clare, Tourism, Traditional Music, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Thurs last and Thurs 22nd Dec!

Have to show some photos (taken by Patrick Keating) of last Thurs – great night with nearly a dozen lovely musicians! My first time meeting with Dessie Mulkere, banjo/flute-player/singer all rolled into one. Oh, and add ‘composer’ to the list too as he played us a couple of lovely tunes of his. Jimmy Clancy was anxious that I meet him and I was delighted he asked him to come. But there were more than Dessie as you can see. Great night – and looking forward to this Thurs night – Christmas Eve (reel) will be played…again. (One of my favourites at any time of year). Please feel free to join in. If I don’t see you – a very happy Christmas to you and your families!

Musicians at Cruises Bar. Photgrapher Patrick Keating
Seisiún at Cruises Bar. Photgrapher Patrick Keating
Dessie Mulkere (Clare) playing banjo at Cruises Bar Thurs night seisiún. Photographer Patrick Keating
Seisiún at Cruises Bar. Photographer Patrick Keating

A video and few photos taken on my phone – see below..

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Jimmy Clancy, Patrick Keating, Michael Brown, Patsy Hanrahan and Michael McGrath.

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Michael McGrath, Betty and Bill from Seattle, Paula O Regan (hidden!)and Mick Coffee.

Posted by  |  December 22, 2016 | Categories: Tourism, Traditional Music | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

2nd Thurs before Christmas! :)

Seisiún-time again for many Thurs 15th at Cruises Bar, Ennis. Join us at 8:30pm for tunes and merriment! I promise to wear the Christmas jumper….. NEXT Thursday! 😉 Here are some photos from last Thurs – including a special birthday lady who sang for us!! (Nóirín!)

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Noirín Lynch included us in her birthday in the best way – with a song, beautiful! Thanks Noirín! x

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Jerry from Canada and Clara from Ennis (Argentina!) and of Los Paddys de las Pampas

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Quentin Cooper (The Fiddle Case) and Paula O’Regan on fiddle with Andy Lambert on bouzouki

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Jimmy Clancy, Patsy Hanrahan and Canadian – Jerry!

Posted by  |  December 14, 2016 | Categories: Tourism, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

8th December…

Hey all you Christmas shoppers…are your arms breaking, feet aching? Cruises seisiún starts at 8:30 or so – so why not end up there and have a hot toddy and rest yourselves! We’ll play restful tunes and lively tunes and you can just relax! See you soon. 😉

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Posted by  |  December 8, 2016 | Categories: Uncategorized | Leave a comment