Belfast, City of Song
Historical singing and walking tour
with Maurice Leyden and Jane Cassidy
Saturday 27th September, 9.30 – 11am // £10
Sunday 28th September, 10am – 11.30am // £10
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Tickets available from the Belfast Welcome Centre
on 028 9024 6609
Meet outside Belfast City Hall.
Finishes at the Northern Whig on Bridge Street.
A unique tour of Belfast City centre by two of Belfast’s most respected traditional singers and cultural historians. This tour will bring Belfast’s rich history to life through stories and songs of the linen and shipbuilding trades, the Titanic, slavery, Mary Ann and Henry Joy McCracken, the United Irishmen, the Linenhall Library, the horsetrams, the Cave Hill, the ‘muddlers clubs’ and informers of 1798, the Albert Clock, the great Harp Festivals of the 1790s – among many others. There will be love songs, political songs, children’s songs – all taken from the great collection that Maurice and Jane have gathered over the years. A real treat for visitors to the city and natives alike. Early booking recommended.
As I Roved Out:
Sean O’Boyle Centenary singing session and illustrated talk
with Maurice Leyden and friends
Sunday 28th September
McHughs Basement
5pm // £3
This year is the centenary of the birth of Sean O'Boyle – a great Belfast man, and collector of traditional songs in the 1950s on behalf of the BBC around the North and Donegal. Sean O’Boyle is not as widely known as his contemporaries, Peter Kennedy and Seamus Ennis, yet his collection is the most comprehensive archive of the Northern song tradition recorded 'in the field'.
Maurice Leyden will celebrate his legacy with an illustrated talk, playing extracts from his collection, and showing how his archive was used by Planxty, Andy Irvine, Altan, Cara Dillon, Paul Brady and many others.
A singing session will follow featuring some songs from the Sean O’Boyle collection, and lead by some of our great Northern singers, including John Kennedy (this year celebrating his 80th birthday), Jim McFarland, Mairead Walls and Maurice Leyden.
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