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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 |
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Welcome to the website of Siobhan Skates. Thanks for stopping by...
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Tuesday 12th Jan 2010.
If you happen to be in the Newcastle (County Down ) area this coming Sunday (17th Jan) Siobhan will be joined by guitarist Matt Fleming for a gig in the Folk Gallery. Click on the gig page for details.
New YouTube video posted...taken at the end of 2009 down at In the Shade Studios outside Markethill. Siobhan is joined by the wonderful Roy Fulton for this version of 'It Didn't Look Like Rain'. Thanks to the boys from In the Shade for putting this together. Checkout the video section on the Links page.
Friday 4th December 2009.
If you missed the launch, listen again to Folk Club with Colum Sands on BBC Radio Ulster and soak up some of the atmosphere of the big launch night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p71q3/Folk_Club_05_12_2009/
Have a listen back to Siobhan chatting with John Toal on his BBC Radio Ulster Saturday Magazine programme - copy & paste the link until December 12th.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p71g3/Saturday_Magazine_05_12_2009/
Thursday 12th November Siobhan sings 2 songs from her new album on NvTv to be broadcast on Friday 13th November at midday
Check it out on channel 62/frquency 799.276MHz, or view NvTv live at www.nvtv.co.uk 21st October 2009
'Better Than a Dream' is to be launched at the Real Music Club in the Errigle Inn on Thursday 3rd December 2009. Doors for this much anticipated event will open at 8pm, and tickets will cost £8.00. Siobhan is delighted to be holding the launch at Belfast's premier roots and acoustic music club.
Guest artist, Maurice Dickson will kick things off with an opening set, followed by Siobhan and her band. Master of ceremonies for the evening will be Colum Sands.
If you'd like to join us for this special night, please contact Jim Heaney to reserve your ticket on
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Hope to see you there! 11th October 2009
My word, where does the time go?
Happy to report the album's release is now imminent, and will be available on this website shortly.
1st April 2009
So the anticipation continues with no sign of the album just yet.
That said, it is not far away with Siobhan and Maurice Dickson working hard on the mixes.
One development is the naming of the album as 'Better Than A Dream' after one of the songs on the album.
The other exciting news is the release of one of the album tracks 'Sunflower' as a charity single.
Siobhan is delighted to be involved with the charity 'Live On' which supports organ transplant and raises awareness of organ donation.
'Live On ' was set up in 2004 in memory of Siobhan's friend Rachel Herron who died whilst on the transplant list. Rachel had cystic fibrosis and was just 36 years old when she died in 2003.
Siobhan wrote the song 'Sunflower' in the months following Rachel's death and it is released alongside the song 'Donegal Dreams' which was written, sung and recorded by Rachel's brother Paul.
All proceeds from the sale of the single will go to the Live On charity.
You will be able to purchase the single through this website shortly. In the meantime, you are welcome to drop the site an email to register your interest in the single.
More to follow soon - drop back in again sometime! |
