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Cathy Jordan
Cathy Jordan (born in Scramogue, County Roscommon in 1972) is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, bodhran, bones and bouzouki. She has been the lead vocalist for the traditional Irish music band Dervish Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from fa, درویش, ''Darvīsh'') in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity A fraternity (from Latin language, Latin ''wiktionary:frater, frater'': "brother (Christian), brother"; whence, ... since 1991, and is a solo performer as well. Jordan is also a member of the group The Unwanted. Her first solo album, entitled ''All the Way Home'', was released in January, 2012. Discography With Dervish * ''Harmony Hill'' * ''Playing with Fire'' * ''At the End of the Day'' * ''Live in Palma'' * ''Midsummer's Night'' * ''Decade'' * ''Spirit'' * ''Healing Heart'' * ''Travelling Show'' With The Unwanted * ''Music from the Atlantic Fringe'' (2010) Solo * ''All the Way Home'' (2012) References Ex ...
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Festival Interceltique De Lorient
__NOTOC__ The (French), Emvod Ar Gelted An Oriant (Breton) or Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient in English, is an annual Celtic festival, located in the city of Lorient, Brittany, France. It was founded in 1971 by . This annual festival takes place in the heart of the city every August and is dedicated to the cultural traditions of the Celtic nations (''pays celtes'' in French), highlighting Celtic music and dance and also including other arts such as painting, photography, theatre, sculpture, traditional artisanry as well as sport and gastronomy. Participants come from Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known ..., Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall, Wales, Cumbria, the Isle of Man, Cape Breton Island, Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Asturias, Acadia, and the entire Celtic dia ...
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County Roscommon
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Dervish (band)
Dervish is an Irish traditional music group from County Sligo, Ireland which has been described by BBC Radio 3 as "an icon of Irish music". They were formed in 1989 by Liam Kelly, Shane Mitchell, Martin McGinley, Brian McDonagh, and Michael Holmes and have been fronted by singer Cathy Jordan since 1991. They represented Ireland in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, singing a song written by John Waters and Tommy Moran. In 2019 they released an album on the US Rounder Records label called ''The Great Irish Song Book'' featuring a selection of classic Irish songs sung by a number of well known singers including Steve Earle, Andrea Corr, Vince Gill, Kate Rusby, Imelda May, Rhiannon Giddens, The Steel Drivers, Brendan Gleeson, Abigail Washburn, and Jamey Johnson. In 2019 they received a lifetime achievement award from the BBC. History The band was originally called The Boys of Sligo; an album under this title, with Martin McGinley on fiddle, and with no vocals, was rel ...
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Irish Women Singer-songwriters
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People From County Roscommon
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