[NEohioPAL] Noel Lenaghan in concert at West Side Irish Club, October 18

[Jack Kilroy]

*Noel Lenaghan in concert at **West Side** Irish American Club*

Friday, October 18th. Doors open 7p.m, show at 8pm. 8559 Jennings Road
Olmsted Twp., OH 44138.  General public welcome.

Traditional Irish music and original songs in the Irish tradition performed
on mandolin, wood flute, guitar, and tin whistle by Noel Lenaghan, a noted
performer, songwriter, and story teller.

Noel was born in Belfast now lives in Donegal. The West Side Irish American
Club event will be Noel's only Cuyahoga County public event in 2013.

The show will be in the Abbey Room, general admission seating. Free
parking. Tickets $8.00 at door. Advance tickets at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/453441

* **ABOUT NOEL LENAGHAN*

Singer, songwriter, flute, tin whistle, mandolin and guitar player Noel
Lenaghan is a musician whose work is steeped in the Irish tradition.
Although he has a huge body of tunes and songs from the reservoir of Irish
traditional music, his repertoire draws on a variety of sources including
rarely performed songs from Galway, Mayo, Donegal, New Zealand, and his
native town of Belfast.

Born and raised in Belfast, now living in Donegal, Noel was heavily
influenced by the Irish traditional music renaissance that took place
during the 60's and 70's and has recently released three solo albums,
mostly of his own material, available on Waterbug records.

In the past, he has performed and recorded with such groups as *The
Different Drums of **Ireland**, Rakish Paddy, The Rambling Boys of Pleasure
, A Moufthful of Tea Leaves, *and the innovative* Druid Soul Band.*

            Noel Lenaghan stands out from other traditional Irish musicians
in that he plays traditional dance music in a style which is indigenous to
a small area in the northwest of Ireland, East Donegal and West Fermanagh.

His repertoire includes songs from the 18th.century that have never been
recorded by others and until recently have existed only in manuscript form.
The studio recordings are produced without a high degree of gloss,
emulating a live performance.

Noel is a teacher and accomplished performer on the Irish wooden flute.  He
plays a hybrid of the Baroque inverse conical bore flute common in
18th.century Europe.  It is made of Rosewood and has three keys which makes
it particularly suitable for Irish music especially the music indigenous to
West Fermanagh and East Donegal.

Noel plays “A-model” 1917 Gibson mandolin in a style that he has developed
to suit the intricacies of traditional Irish music.

Lengaghan’s original material is in the unique ballad style of the
northwest of Ireland and his compositions are in a form synonymous with
this area.  Noel sings in a dialect of Irish which is peculiar to a very
small area in Ireland.

Noel Lenaghan was educated at St. Malachy's College in Belfast.  An Irish
speaker, Noel earned an Honors Degree in Irish Studies at University of
Ulster, Coleraine, County Derry in 1997.  Noel teaches Irish language
classes to teenage students in the Donegal Gaeltacht.

Lenaghan has performed at most of the major Irish music festivals including
the Milwaukee Irish Fest; The Dublin (Ohio) Irish Fest; Celtic Connections
Music Festival, Glasgow; West Belfast Community Festival; the Ardoyne
Fleadh, the Boyle Arts Festival (Roscommon), the Ulster Fleadh Ceoil; the
Connacht Fleadh Ceoil; and the 2013 All Ireland Fleadh Ceoil.  A Fleadh
Ceoil is a festival and competition in celebration of Irish music and
culture.

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