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24th July 2010 2010 ALL IRELAND FLEADH - PRESS RELEASE
Beoga to bring the “X Factor” to Fleadh 2010 in Cavan!
Nyah Fringe shows, Friday 20th August, Town Hall Theatre 4.00pm and Cavan Crystal Hotel 11pm
With Fleadh 2010 in Cavan already promising an unprecedented, action-packed feast of hi-octane shows and innovative events, the news that Beoga — the pop stars of trad music — are coming to town has to be the icing on the cake, for younger audiences especially.
That’s right, the kids just love Beoga, the trad band with the “X Factor”, and that’s why not one, but two Nyah Festival fringe shows by the band are being put on during the All-Ireland Fleadh, including an early evening special youth performance.
Friday 20th August is the date to keep free for anyone wanting to catch the electrifying five-piece in action, beginning with a special Youth Performance from 4pm–5.30pm in the Town Hall Theatre, Cavan Town, a venue that will be hosting Fleadh Club gigs all weekend. What better way to warm the fine old building up than with a trademark red-hot performance from the band the whole trad world is talking about these days? This early show for younger fans is one that’s bound to inspire more than a few musicians of the future!
Beoga will be in action again later on Friday with a nighttime 11pm–1am show at the Cavan Crystal Hotel, Dublin Road, Cavan, and don’t be surprised if some of the pundits opt to go for broke and take in both shows! These guys never fail to inject the adrenalin and lift the spirits — Beoga are a must-see for the young and the young at heart as well! Support on the night from Fleadh Hon President Seamus Fay, Cavan lilter and Kavan & Savannah Donohoe harp/flute.
Brimming over with talent, the band in full flight often features the duelling accordions of Damian McKee and multi-instrumentalist Seán Óg Graham, backed up with by a driving rhythm section made upof keyboards genius Liam Bradley and four times all-Ireland bodhrán champ Eamon Murray. Topped off with a touch of style and panache from singer and fiddle player Niamh Dunne, the Beoga experience is always one to remember.
Tickets are priced at €15 for both of these Nyah fringe shows, and can be had at the venue doors — but book early at Multisound Cavan (049-4361312), to be sure to be sure!
1st July 2010
Hey folks, hope you’re all enjoying some good weather there. It’s Liam here with the news...
In late June the Beogas returned home from possibly our most enjoyable tour so far... 6 fantastic weeks in Thailand, Ne
w Zealand and Australia. We met some great new friends along the way, bumped into a few old ones, played memorable concerts to full houses, including Port Arlington’s National Celtic Festival and Nelson’s Ceol Aneas and we were privileged to see some of the finest scenery on earth.
Wairoa College in New Zealand hosted a traditional Maori ceremony for the band, with the College Rugby team performing their Haka for us. Hair-raising stuff! (for those lucky enough to have hair). In return we played a few tunes for them, but in the end there was only one thing we could offer of comparable intensity and involving similar facial contortions... Eamon’s bodhran solo!
It was a diverse couple of months weather-wise, with sunshine, storms and snow at times, but from 
swimming in hot springs, bungee jumping and skydiving at NZ’s Lake Taupo to Oz’s Surfer’s Paradise we had a ball. At our shows there were a few surprises, at the Wellington gig one audience member came up and performed 30 handclap push-ups onstage (drunk people will do anything for a Beoga t-shirt sometimes!), in Hastings a kindergarten class sang Molly Malone for us, and In Melbourne we were delighted to join Damien Howard and the Ploughboys. Throughout the tour we were also entertained by world class Irish dancers. We had a few radio and TV stops as well. Here’s a link to Beoga’s appearance on Good Morning New Zealand.
Huge thanks to everyone who came along and especially to our good friend Gerry Paul from Grada, who put the whole tour together. Thanks also to Cultur Eireann for their much valued support. Hopefully we’ll make it back down under in 2012 - we can’t wait!
After two very short days back home it was off again, to Folk im Schlosshof. This is Germany’s largest folk festival and we had a great audience and atmosphere for the show. After us it was a privilege to watch The Dubliners take to the stage - an hour and a half of nostalgia from living legends!
Next up, on 4th July, is our second trip of the year to Dublin’s Temple Bar, for a special Independence Day afternoon Hooley. Then on the 18th July comes our first Isle of Man trip, to the Inter Celtic festival in Peel. We finish off July with a week of gigs in Italy. In August look out for us in Germany, Holland and Belgium, but also Scariff, Co Clare and not forgetting the big one... the All Ireland Fleadh on 20th August! We have two concerts that day in the Farnham Arms Hotel, one at 4pm (children allowed) and the second at 9.30pm.
So that’s all the craic for now. We are starting to plan Beoga’s fourth album, with a release hopefully in 2011. More about that soon, but if you have any suggestions for us, feel free to drop us an e-mail at info@beogamusic.com.
Cheers, and maybe we’ll see you over the summer!
Liam
10th May 2010
Hey Folks,
How the flip are ye? Eamon here, the most eloquent of news page writers. So it's been all go here in 'Camp Beoga'. We had a blast last weekend at the 'Feile Oriel' in Monaghan. Last year we closed the festival with a midnight concert and we were back in the same slot again this year. It was a mental night, with people dancing on tables, children being flung about the place, general bedlam and one of the best nights in a long time. A big thank you to all the headers that came along an packed the place out.
We're off to Luxembourg tomorrow for a show at the Luxembourg military tattoo, which should be good. Also on the bill are the Red Hot Chilli Pipers and the popular Luxembourg band Dreamcatcher, who we will be playing a few numbers with. Provided this volcano in Iceland behaves itself... it's been coughing and spluttering and ruining peoples travel plans for too long now. So Icelandic volcano, “LESS OF IT, OR I’M TELLING ME DA” and you don't want that.
On Thursday Beoga makes our biggest journey to date. We're off to New Zealand and Australia (via Bangkok, just for a look around you see). It's our first trip to that side of the globe so we can't wait. Check out our 'tour dates' and tell all your friends down under to come along, so we can all do crocodile dundee and Rolf Harris impressions, it'll be a real hoot... Sheila
So keep an eye on the website and facebook for our updates from down under. See ye all over the summer months. I'm off to pack.
10th March 2010
Hi folks from sunny Barre in Vermont, where our USA tour is in full swing. Check out this TV ad for Beoga in Washington’s National Geographic on 15th March. http://www.weta.org/tv/local/aroundtown and Eamon’s early morning radio interview with WEEU for our Reading show next week.
4th March 2010
Hey folks,
Big bad Magoo (Damian) pushing ink once more. I would just like to start off this update by thanking all the people involved in the organising and the partaking of my recent surprise 40th Birthday bash. It was truly an unbelievable weekend with the most amazing people I have the privilege to call friends.
It all started on 20th February (and a month before my real birthday) and I was under the impression I was flying to 
England for two more Beoga gigs. Why would I think otherwise, when I saw ‘fake’ flight details, website entries and contracts for the said concerts... in fact three months of deception! Anyway, as I arrived at Soggy’s house to collect him, I was ambushed by two characters, one dressed as Homer Simpson and other was like something out of a horror movie”. Before running off into the distance, they handed me an envelope of instructions leading me up the road to a red bus with another cleverly disguised driver who delivered me to a room full of friends and family from near and far... the outcome was 2 days of partying, games, beer, tunes, a ‘How well do you know Damian McKee quiz’, more beer and a visit to my favourite restaurant (KFC!) in the middle for good measure… EPIC.
So, enough about me. Beoga have started 2010 on a great note with shows at the Temple Bar Trad Fest in Dublin and Feile an Earraigh in Belfast, where we joined the wonderful Lau onstage. We also played to great audiences in Oswestry, Fareham, Newcastle, Warrington, London, York and back home in Strabane. As I write we are kicking off our 2 week eastern USA tour in New Jersey, with a double bill concert along with our great friends Cara.
On St Patricks Day itself we fly home for the huge celebrations in Omagh Town Square. Fingers crossed for some warmer weather that day!
In other news, we are delighted and honoured that the Irish Echo (America’s most widely read Irish American paper) have ranked ‘The Incident’ album no. 4 in the top albums of 2009. We’re looking forward to playing some exciting venues and new destinations later this year, but more news about that soon. That’s all from me for now. Hopefully we’ll see some of you good folk in the next while on our travels.
Take care,
Magoo
27th January 2010
Beoga play the Temple Bar tradfest this Thursday 28th January. Listen to Beoga live on the RTE Radio 1 Arena programme, 26th January 2010
http://www.rte.ie/radio/liveplayer2_av.html?1_real,http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/live/radio/radio1.smil,real,200
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