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Colm Mac Con Iomaire

Recent Colm interviews & upcoming solo gigs

Colm has done a few radio interviews recently in Ireland. You can listen online…

5 May – Miriam Meets on RTE – This week, Miriam O’Callaghan interviews musician Colm Mac Con Iomaire and his wife Sheila McNally.

29 April – With Nadine on The Kiosk at Phantom talking about In The Deep Shade

15 April – Arena on RTE Radio 1 – Colm & Conor Masterson talk about In The Deep Shade

Colm also has a few solo gigs scheduled in Ireland at this point in time. One is this weekend at the Fiddle Fair in Baltimore, West Cork. The other 2 are in July: on the 14th at Inis Oirr Arts Centre on the Aran Islands & on the 18th at Balor Arts Centre in Ballybofey, County Donegal.

Hiya / Update

glen_vienna_ivi4How’s everyone? We just wanted to say hi and fill you in on some upcoming events in the coming week (there’s many!) & provide a little recap of recent stuff. So here’s a calendar of sorts:

Saturday 13th
– Glen is playing the MusicNow Festival in Cincinnati Ohio

Sunday 14th
– There is a The Frames: In The Deep Shade screening at Lincoln Hall in Chicago as well as one at DeBarra’s in Cork
– Glen will join The Love Reading Series at Arlene’s Grocery NYC

Wednesday 17th
– Graham & friends are Square Pegs! This time they will be playing some Chicago Blues, 50’s R&B & New Orleans Blues at Whelans front bar from 7-9pm
– Glen is participating in Poetry & The Creative Mind at Lincoln Center in NYC

Thursday 18th
– Colm will perform for the Dalai Lama at the Millenium Forum in Derry
– Glen will be at the Glucksman Ireland House at NYU for a discussion about music & songwriting

Friday 19th
– Graham & Joe will play with lots of other folks at The Sugar Club in Dublin for a Tribute to Levon Helm. Money raised will go to the Irish Cancer Society.
– Glen joins John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery in NYC
– The Frames: In The Deep Shade starts a week long run at the Lighthouse Theatre in Dublin

Not to mention, April & May bring lots of Framesy birthdays! Happy happy birthday to Glen, Claire, Joe & Colm, a bevy of Tauruses.

Conor Masterson’s The Frames: In The Deep Shade has further screenings scheduled in LA, Portland, Belfast & Rotterdam for now. You can keep an eye at the ITDS website. We have a page here too with news & links to reviews/interviews as they appear.

Sounds like Australia & New Zealand were a fantastic time for everyone! We’ve got setlists & the usual over here & also some interviews & performances on local radio & the like over here at TV & Radio and here at Features & Interviews.

In case you haven’t poked around, we have pages for each current band member on the site as well so have a click through to Graham, Colm & Rob‘s pages to see what those guys have been up to.

Thanks y’all, have a great weekend…. jenn & shannon

(photo by Ivi!)

Billy Bragg & The Hare’s Corner

harescorner_250Billy Bragg names Colm’s “The Hare’s Corner” as one of his favorites among a cast of some amazing records. We’d be totally down with a Billy + Colm collaboration! Check it out (#12) at The Quietus.