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Artists for Kosovo
Read more: Artists for KosovoTwo-thirds of the Kosovar refugees who fled the war in April (some 600,000 people) returned to their homeland. These people came back to find widespread destruction: over 500,000 houses were […]
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Employing the Lonesome Touch
Read more: Employing the Lonesome TouchGavin and Maurice are working on their album with fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill, known for their 1997 release The Lonesome Touch.
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Artists for Kosovo opens in Dublin
Read more: Artists for Kosovo opens in DublinGavin Friday has just returned from a trip to Kosovo. Gavin, manager Anne-Louise Kelly and Sheila Roche were asked by Concern to go to Kosovo to shoot some footage which […]
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Great ship goes down a storm
Read more: Great ship goes down a stormOn July 2, Gavin and Maurice performed two songs at Hal Willner’s Harry Smith Project (Meltdown Festival). ‘Fatal Flower Garden’ was orginally performed by Nelstone’s Hawaiians in 1929. The second […]
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Harry Smith’s Project Meltdown; Royal Festival Hall, London: Star collective pays homage to folk collector
Read more: Harry Smith’s Project Meltdown; Royal Festival Hall, London: Star collective pays homage to folk collectorWHO IS Harry Smith, and why would Bryan Ferry, Beth Orton, Nick Cave and others want to pay tribute to him? The films shown at the start of the evening […]
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Harry Smith night in London
Read more: Harry Smith night in LondonMaurice and Gavin are doing a one off, 3 song performance of songs from the Harry Smith archive of American folk ballads as part of the Nick Cave organised Meltdown […]
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Concern for Kosovo
Read more: Concern for KosovoGavin is currently involved in getting a large charity project underway for Concern (a large charity organisation in Ireland) to raise money for the refugees in Kosovo.
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AIDS Candlelight Memorial Service ’99
Read more: AIDS Candlelight Memorial Service ’99Gavin and Maurice will perform Freddie Mercury’s ‘These are the days of our lives’ at the AIDS Candlelight Memorial Service in Dublin’s St Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday 23rd May. Gavin […]
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Agnes Bernelle (76) dies in Dublin
Read more: Agnes Bernelle (76) dies in DublinOn Tuesday, February 16th, the actress and singer Agnes Bernelle died in Dublin, aged 76. She was born in Berlin in 1923, daughter of a renowned Jewish-Hungarian theatre impressario who […]
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Emerald Germs radio plays
Read more: Emerald Germs radio playsGavin, Maurice and writer Pat McCabe are collaborating on a collection of surreal Irish tales: a series of McCabe’s stories set to music. McCabe in a recent Hot Press interview: […]