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The Ticket (Irish Times) – Review

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Clare Champion Article Nov 2009

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Journal Of Music Article Nov 2009

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Living In Kildare Review

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Irish Times Article – Friday Nov 27th 2009

Irish Times Article – Friday Nov 27th 2009

World Music

SIOBHÁN LONG

This week’s world releases reviewed

TOMMY HAYES & IAN LESLIE

Almost HomeCladdagh Record ***

This is a “look ma, no hands” collection: improvisational in tone and experimental in mood, a heady mix of electronica and acoustic music. Tommy Hayes is a bodhrán player of considerable skill and grace who has enriched many a traditional music performance. His collaboration with sax player Ian Leslie may well forge a future existence in soundtrack form. Some songs are more concrete in execution, including the meditative For Theo , sung by Sarah Roche (with Tommy’s original music set to a Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill poem). The Buddhist-inspired Going Nowhere poses deep questions atop a marimba riff, and the emotional charge of the cello on Accidental Music aptly captures what Hayes and Leslie are pursuing: an exotic and evocative soundscape that pays scant heed to musical boundaries. www.hayesleslie.com

Almost Home

We first bumped into each other while studying together for an MA in Music Therapy in 2002, at The Irish World Academy University of Limerick. We became friends (being the only males on the course!) at an early stage and found that we had a common interest in similar types of music.

Over the course of the 2 years we collaborated on a number of music projects together and towards the end of our studies we started to look at the possibility of a long term project. We came up with the idea of doing an album together, just after we had finished performing music for a mutual friend’s wedding. Continue Reading…

Tommy at National Concert Hall Sept 26th with Yungchen Lhamo

Tommy is playing at the NCH Sept 26th with the Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo also on the gig will be Jamshried Shifiri and Robbie Overson.

Gig – Sat 15th Aug 8 p.m.- Cois na hAbhanna – Ennis (Tommy, Ciaran and Mike Hanrahan)

Tommy is playing a gig, with Ciaran and Mike Hanrahan, two of his old Stocktons Wing buddies, on Saturday 15th August 2009, in Cois na hAbhanna Ennis, at 8p.m. Tickets are € 22.50 from Record Rack, or at the door.

Almost Home – sample 2

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Raindrops (2 minute sample)

Tommy playing the Magic Spoons

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Tommy playing bodhran