Carmina Dublin Launch
of Carmina's new album 'My Crescent City'
produced by Donal Lunny. Joining them for the concert is
Richie
Buckley (Sax)The Carmina band boasts some big
names on the British and Irish jazz scene as well as two
young stars of
Irish Traditional music.
Singer and songwriter Pippa Marland has
''a wondrous voice, capable of enchanting and
emoting''
('Time Out', UK) and also adds alto sax
and whistles to the mix of instruments. She and
masterful
arranger and songwriter Rob King (acoustic guitar, bodhrán),
compose the songs around which the band
weave their magic.
The line-up includes Geoff Castle (keyboards);
Diarmaid Moynihan (uilleann pipes, whistles);
Brian Morrissey (bodhrán, banjo, whistles);
and long-time Carmina guest, Irish sax maestro
Richie Buckley.
Dónal Lunny produced their new album and also guested on
bouzouki, acoustic guitar, bodhrán and backing
vocals;
in a recent 'Irish Times'
interview Donal described the Carmina's music ''very,
very
sweet - and they’re brilliant musicians!''
(Dónal Lunny, 'Irish Times' 2007)
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rob@carmina.co.uk
www.carmina.co.uk
www.myspace.com/carminamusic
Carmina
have just been in the studio in Dublin recording a new album, My Crescent City, produced by Dónal Lunny and due for release
in Autumn 2007. This follows their highly acclaimed albums On A Quiet Street (Live in Ireland), studio album Love Like Angels, and
the recent re-issue of their first Dónal Lunny-produced album Weather in the Heart. | 
