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B r e n d a n larrissey will l a u n c h his n e w solo a l b u m Up the Moy Road' at Roisin D u b h Monday May 15
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rendan Larrissey launches his new album entitled Up The Moy Road on Monday May 15, with special guests. His first solo album was the critically-acclaimed and wittily titled A Flick of the Wrist.

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Brendan Larrissey, originally from Dundalk, got his first fiddle when he was 11 years old and it wasn't long before he was heading off to the house of Rose O'Connor, the famous fiddle teacher. It was another member of the O'Connor family, the great fiddle player Gerry O'Connor, who was Brendan's earliest and most important influence. Brendan's progress was by way of the cus tomary pub sessions, especially in a famous Dundalk establishment called 'Mark's Bar', where he learned how play while a thick cloud of cigarette smoke floated around his head. A Willie Clancy Scholarship introduced him to the great tradition of Clare fiddling at first hand, and by the time he was 18 he was spending his sum mers in Clare, sometimes accompanied by a fel low fiddler from Dundalk, Seamus Sands, a member of a legendary family in trad circles. Brendan landed in Galway for the first time in 1984 and rapidly hit up with the likes of Frankie Gavin and Mairtin O'Connor, Brendan

O'Regan, Sean Smyth, Sean Ryan, Tony O'Halloran, Alec Finn, Dolores Keane and John Faulkner, and the lamented Micky Finn. He also travelled abroad to places like East Berlin with John Faulkner and Charlie Harris. Not too much later opportunity knocked loudly. Johnny McDonagh, bodhran player extraordinaire, rang him up and asked if he'd like to join a band he was starting up called Arcady. Ten days later he met Frances Black and Sharon Shannon and Johnny in Broderick's Pub in Kilrickle and Arcady was born, one of the finest and most influential trad bands of the late 80s and early 90s. Last summer he was musical director of the Spraoi sa Taibhdhearc, the very successful tradi tional music summer show at An Taibhdhearc. In addition to his already flourishing traditional music school which he holds at Galway Arts Centre, he runs another in Portumna. Up the Moy Road, produced at Absolute Studios in Kinvara, features Brendan with Mike

Considine and takes its name from the road just west of Kinvara where the fiddler lives with his wife and family. And there's a good story about the cover. The album cover is a painting by Joseph Quilty, an artist who lived in Kinvara for 25 years. The painting is called 'Men in a Landscape' and the family gave me permission to use it on the front cover. My wife, Helen, spotted in a major retrospective exhibition of his work held in The Kenny Gallery during Galway Arts Festival last summer." The new album features two compositions dedicated to the two daughters born since since the release of A Flick of the Wrist. "My first album had a tune called "Valse a Donald" that I dedicated to Clara, who was only a baby at the time. On the new album I've recorded two of my own compositions, "A Hat for Hannah" and "Nessa the Mover". Mike Considine continues the personal references with a lovely tune for his wife called "Mel's Reel".

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ARCHBISHOP GREGORIOS, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira, Great Britain, and Ireland, will open Icon 2000, a unique exhibition of sacred art which will be held in Galway Cathedral from May 22 to May 26. The exhibition will be hosted by the Bishop of Galway, Rev Dr James McLoughlin, Very Rev Dr Ireneu Cracinn, of the Greek Orthodox Church in Ireland, and the Bishop of Tuam, Achonry and Killala, the Rt Rev Dr Richard Henderson. Archbishop Gregorios, the youngest of nine chil dren, was born in what is today the Turkish occupied village of Marathovouno in the dis trict of Famagusta in Cyprus in 1928. After completing a short time as a monk in the monastery of Stavrovouni, he was ordained deacon by Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus. After completing his secondary school education, he attended the Theological School at the University of Athens from which he graduated in 1958. Archbishop Gregorios came to London in April 1959 where, after being ordained pres byter by Metropolitan Alhenagoras Kavvadas he was appointed assistant parish priest at All Saints Church. London, and then parish priest, in which

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position he served until August 1969. With the arrival in London of the then Metropolitan and later Archbishop Athenagoras Kokkinaskis in 1964, he was chosen as Chancellor of the Archdiocese, and on the death in 1979 of Athenagoras he took over as locum tenans. He held the position in the archdiocese as privy councillor to Archbishop Athenagoras from 1969. Archbishop Gregorios did post-graduate work at Cambridge University and during his studies he estab lished the local Greek Orthodox community. In 1970 he was chosen as Bishop of Tropaeou and, whenever possible, he undertook the duties in the archdiocese together with the organisation and management of the com munity of Saint Mary and Saint Barnabas. Wood Green, London, a position he has held for nearly 18 years. Archbishop Gregorios will be in Galway from Sunday May 21 to Tuesday May 23. On Monday evening he will take part in a solemn procession around the Cathedral in which the icons will be carried, an ancient tradition in the Orthodox Church. Next week: What is an icon?

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