The Dubliners

Mon 15 Mar
Venue: Derngate

After 46 years on the road, The Dubliners remain an institution. The band who reinvented British folk music continue to play sellout concerts all over the world, inspiring young musicians along the way and making folksong part of the musical diet of the country.

Now they are back on the road with their popular Irish sound, ready to fill the air with tales of love, life, drink and the emigrant once more.

With a line-up including Barney McKenna, John Sheahan, Sean Cannon, Eamonn Campbell and Patsy Watchorn, this is folk music at its best.

7.30pm



Tickets
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Happy St Patrick's Day

Irish Folk Show with John Connors 

 

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HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY

Wishing our Irish community 

the very best for St Patricks Day March 17th 

St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast—on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.

Irish Bacon and Cabbage

see below for recipe

Irish Recipe Irish Bacon and Cabbage  1 Shannon Traditional Slab Bacon (11/4 - 2lb) 1/2 green cabbage and 1/2 white cabbage 8 potatoes (peeled) Salt and pepper 1. Remove slab bacon from plastic bag. Cover with cold water. 

 

2. Bring to boil and drain. 

 

 3. Cover with fresh cold water. Bring to boil and then simmer for 25 minutes per 1lb plus 25 minutes over. 

 4. Remove outer leaves of cabbage. Cut in half, add to the saucepan and simmer for the last 20 minutes. 

 

5. Remove bacon to chopping board and carve into thin slices. Drain cabbage, season with salt & pepper, chop and add a knob of butter. 

6. Serve the bacon with the cabbage and boiled potatoes as well as your choice of sauce.

 

When You Were Sweet Sixteen

1. When first I saw the love light in your eye
   I dreamt the world held naught but joy for me
   And even though we drifled far apart
   I never dream, but what I dream of thee
   
   I love you as I never loved before
   Sincefirst I met you on the village green
   Come to me or my dream of love is O'er
   I love you as I loved you,
   When you were sweet
   When you were sweet sixteen
2. Last night I dreamt I held your hand in mine
   And once again you were my happy bride
   I kissed you as I did in Auld Lang Syne
   As to the church we wandered side by side
   
   I love you as I never loved before
   Sincefirst I met you on the village green
   Come to me or my dream of love is O'er
   I love you as I loved you,
   When you were sweet
   When you were sweet sixteen

 

Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with GUINNESS

St Pat’s facts

*Over 5 million pints of Guinness are sold in the UK each year on St. Patrick’s Day
*Over 13 million pints of Guinness are raised on St. Patrick’s Day across the globe, which brings more than 150 pints to life every second
*Guinness has been marking St. Patrick’s Day, one of the liveliest calendar celebrations for over 15 years
*Last year, Guinness celebrated 250 years since the signing of the 9,000 year lease at St. James’s Gate brewery in Dublin
*The St James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin produces 4 million pints of Guinness every day
*Today, Guinness is popular around the world and sold in more than 150 countries
*Gas bubbles travel downwards, instead of upwards, bringing a pint of Guinness to life with its famous surge and settle motion

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Black Velvet Recipe and History

Ingredients:
Flute of Champagne
Flute of GUINNESS Extra Stout
Serves 1 (1.3 units)


GUINNESS mixed fifty fifty with Champagne. Legend has it that this famous drink was invented in 1861 at Brook’s Club in London. Prince Albert had died, everyone was in mourning, and the story goes that the steward at the club, overcome with the emotion of the occasion, ordered that even the champagne should be put into mourning, and proceeded to mix it with GUINNESS. The taste was so delicious, Black Velvet became extremely popular.

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Anna Brown’s Beef, Onion & Guinness Pie

For this recipe be sure to use shin beef as it is well suited to the long slow cooking process. Stewing steak tends to disintegrate, as opposed to shin beef which has gelatinous fibres running through it.

1.5Kg Shin Beef cut into 2″ cubes
2 medium onions peeled and sliced onions
1 tablespoon flour seasoned with salt and pepper
1 pt Guinness
1 pt beef stock
1 pack ready roll puff pastry



Method
Place the cubed shin beef and the onion in a casserole dish and coat with the seasoned flour. Pour in the Guinness and the stock and bring to simmer gently on the hob. Cover with a tightly fitting lid and place in an oven preheated to 140 Celsius for at least 2 to 3 hours until beef is tender.

Cook pastry as per the pack instructions, cut into individual portions about 5″ by 5″ square. Serve with creamy mashed potatoes and spring greens.

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How to drink the perfect pint of GUINNESS

This St. Patrick’s Day, when you are raising a pint of GUINNESS with friends to say cheers to the Irish, be sure to follow Master Brewer, Fergal Murray’s guide to the perfect way to enjoy a pint of the ‘black stuff’:

*Hold the glass with the Guinness harp facing you and your thumb over the harp
*Never look down. Look at the horizon and bring the glass to your mouth, not your mouth to the glass
*Take a sip, breaking the seal of the head of your pint
*Enjoy the Guinness cream moustache left on the top of your lip
*Each time you take a drink from the pint, hold the glass in the same position and repeat above, letting the liquid flow underneath the head of the pint
*Expect to experience the malty sweetness at the front of your mouth, the roasted flavour at the side and the distinctive Guinness bitterness at the back 

 

See also Irish Folk Show 

with John Connors 

The Dubliners
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Cara Dillon, a taste of Ireland, appears at Royal & Derngate Northampton UK.

 

 

 

  

 

Fri 26 Mar
Venue: Royal

One of the most original and stunning singers of traditional music, Cara Dillon won the All Ireland Singing Trophy at the age of 14 and went on to sing with Oige, De Dannan and Equation – where she met husband and musical collaborator Sam Lakeman.

Whether she’s singing her native songs of lost love and emigration, or their original compositions, you will be hard pressed to find a more emotive and captivating performer.

“QUITE POSSIBLY THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL FEMALE VOICE”
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Winner of BEST ALBUM for Hill of Thieves at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2010 *

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  *Irish folk singer Cara Dillon, who will be performing at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate in March, has scooped the coveted Best Album prize in the recent BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. 

Cara Dillon singing Crazy Love on 

St Patricks day at East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf,

London 17 March 2010.

One of the most original and stunning singers of traditional music, Cara carried off the award for Best Album for her 2009 release Hill of Thieves as well as being nominated in the Folk Singer of the Year and Best Original Song categories.

Cara is no stranger to awards, having won the All Ireland Singing Trophy at the age of 14 before going on to sing with Oige, De Dannan and Equation, where she met husband and musical collaborator Sam Lakeman. Whether she’s singing her native songs of lost love and emigration, or original compositions, you will be hard pressed to find a more emotive and captivating performer.

Steve Scrivens

Event programmer for Royal & Derngate

Northampton

booking shows and music.

Royal & Derngate’s Programmer Steve Scrivens commented:  

“We’re delighted that Cara is receiving the recognition she so rightly deserves and look forward to her performance here in Northampton. We’re striving to bring the best of the contemporary music scene to Royal & Derngate, including many artists who have been nominated for or have won prestigious music awards.” 

Mercury Award nominees Seth Lakeman and Portico Quartet will both be performing at the Northampton venue in March and Radio 2 Folk Award nominees from 2008, The Imagined Village, received a rapturous reception at their recent gig, with a line up including the winner of last year’s Radio 2 Folk Award album of the year Chris Wood. And if anyone missed pianist Zoe Rahman (Mercury nominee 2006) when she was performed with Soothsayers in January, there’s another chance to hear her when she returns to Royal & Derngate with the Jerry Dammers AKA Spatial Orchestra in April.

 

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