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Nominations have now closed for the Irish Blog Awards, but you can still register to attend the awards ceremony at the Alexander Hotel, Dublin on St. David’s Day – March 1st, 2008. Register: http://awards.ie/blogawards/event-registration/
UlsterMusic.com missed out this year – maybe next. But this short-listed entrant could be interest to Celtic music afficionados: Music Road.

Named after that frightful song by Danni’s sister – [covered by Frank Sidebottom - ed] – but this UK-made website might be of interest to those music makers seeking fame and fortune by an alternative route to that of uncle Tom: http://www.ishouldbesolucky.com

Together Again, the new duets CD album from Donegal man Daniel O’Donnell and singing partner Mary Duff, has penetrated the UK Top 10 and this week hangs out at number 6. Together Again celebrates the 20th anniversary of Daniel and Mary singing together on stage. Alongside a free 8-track DVD, the album features “classic hits [...]

BBC Radio 2 and the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters (BACS) are running a competition to give aspiring new songwriters their big break. Like Ulster’s 20th century pop-song svengali Jimmy Kennedy, do you have what it takes to pen a chart-topping tune or two? The 60 finalists attend a 2-day masterclass where they can [...]

Ignition, 18 Roses, Notion and Escape Act play The 27 Club, at the Square Peg in Warrenpoint on November 3. [be at the square or be elsewhere - ed]

http://www.myspace.com/thesquarepeg27club

http://www.humanmusic.ie/

Fermanagh based vocalist-entertainer Phil Franco (45) performs songs from the ’50’s and ’60’s and can be hired for functions/events at reasonable rates.
e-mail: songs1962 AT aol.com
mobi: 07017 778 877

Pyrotechnical instrumental rock band And So I Watch You From Afar – secretly DV recorded [Digital 8 - ed] at Armagh outdoor alt.fest Homemade Jam – has outlined plans to record a new CD with vocal accompanyment from guest singers. The band enter AU [October 2007 issue] magazine’s The Hot 40 Ireland’s Must See Acts [...]

More information later about next year’s Ulster Fleadh:
http://www.ulsterfleadh.com

A carnival of music: exhibition, workshops, seminars and entertainment. Suss it out at www.musicireland.ie
where> Dublin, RDS, Main Hall
when> Sat, Oct 6 – Sun, Oct 7 [dates in blue - ed]
tix> www.ticketmaster.ie

Retail group Virgin has announced the end of its internet music download site. Virgin Digital, launched in the UK two years ago, is shutting down its service in stages and will close completely on October 29. The move comes after Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson sold the group’s UK and Irish record shops to a [...]

Richard Branson – the man who dared sue John Lennon – has jacked in the music retail side of Virgin’s various business interests and flogged his UK and Ireland Virgin Megastore chain to the incumbent management team. The stores will be rebranded Zavvi from later this year. Virgin sold the sister US chain last year. [...]

According to recent market research [PriceWaterhouseCoopers - ed] the Chinese entertainment and media market – including the music business – is expected to grow from $90 billion in 2007 to $137 billion in 2010. [China has even specified its own low-cost high-definition DVD format called CH-DVD, a "patent-lite" version of standard HD-DVD, in time [...]

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