WEDDING MUSIC SERVICE

WEDDING SINGER / MUSICIAN (Solo Artist)

Music for Wedding Ceremonies, Wedding Blessings, any denomination

Also

Music for Wedding Drinks Reception

Excellent Service ! !

Full consultation and help offered in relation to choice of repertoir

Service Provided Galway City and within a seventy mile radius thereof

If You are resident in this area, working in other parts of Ireland and coming home to get married

Take away the headache, use this service

If you are coming home from foreign places to the west of Ireland to get married.

Use this service

If you are a non Irish National coming to the West of Ireland for your wedding

Use this service.

A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE WITH A DIFFERENCE ! !

FEES REASONABLE !!

Contact Brendan

091 791312

087 2874379

email brenobyrne@yahoo.co.ik

Official Web Site www.brendanobyrne.com

My Space www.myspace.com/weddingmusicexpert

Assuring you of the most professional service at all times

If you would be good enough to post on this bulleton to your respective friend list I would be very much oblidged to you

Many thanks

Brendan

Wedding Ceremony Music

This digital download recording has been of help to some 10,000 intending wedding couples to date and was recently voted the no 1 wedding ceremony music album at Ireland's Premier Wedding Fair recently held in Dublin

Recorded in the form of a consultation it explains the application of music in the wedding ceremony and comes complete with a selection of recorded examples for each section

Although based on the Roman Catholic Ceremony, it can be modified for all denominations, including blessings,and civil ceremonies

Having listened,the wedding couple will be able to discuss the music for their day with any musician,knowing where it applies,and where it is optional etc,

It really takes the work out of this aspect of your wedding and enables you to sort out this wedding job with ease and efficiency

The Cost of the Album is €15.00

Select PLAY on the player below to hear a sample

Click here to purchase if you so desire

If you feel this item would be of use you are free to spread the word by re posting,word of mouth,or what ever way you feel appropriate.

Wedding Ceremony Music performed within a seventy mile radius of Galway

Booking now for 2008 Dont Delay !!

To Enquire further
Email brenobyrne@yahoo.co.uk

And I will get back to you

I look forward to hearing from you.

Brendan

Enjoy

Another Blog

More things about Galway you might not know.

The city of Galway in particular around the harbour area has a Spanish feel to it. The houses in this area are Spanish in their style, and off course one of the most famous landmarks in the city is

The Spanish Arch

An old stone arch which was built at the time of the Spanish Armada which eventually made its way to Killala in County Mayo

It is said that in those times Spain was Galway's main trading partner

And that this is how the style in the building around that area of the city was created.

The style of building was influenced by the tradesmen and sailors passing through on merchant ships.

Galway's Cathedral of St Nicholas is one of the largest medieval cathedrals in Ireland

It has a three gabled end to the west and it is known that Christopher Columbus the great explorer worshiped here in 1492 and he then sailed west to discover that the world was round and not flat, and to discover America.

In Galway you will also find Ireland's smallest museum.

There was a famous writer from Dublin known as James Joyce, I'm sure you've hear of him, well he came to Galway, and it is reported that he met a lady called Nora Barnacle and he fell in love with her, I don't know if they married but they certainly lived together for a long number of years.

He moved in to her house which is right near the St Nicholas's Cathedral

It was recently turned into a museum and contains facts, letters and artefacts of their life together

Its amazing how happenings and circumstances create or have created words that are now in the every day vocabulary

Lynch Law, or Lynching is one such word and it arose from an event that occurred in Galway in 1493.

In Market Street behind St Nicholas's Cathedral stands Lynches window

In 1493 James Lynch Fitz Stephen was compelled to execute his own son Walter on this very spot. Apparently Walters's sweetheart had been flirting beyond the accepted norm with a handsome Spaniard, who was staying as an honoured guest at the Mayors House.

Incensed by the Going's on Walter was forced to kill the Spaniard and the Mayor had no choice but to condemn his own son to death.

To make matters worse no one would step forward to carry out the execution, and the Mayor Lynch had no choice but to execute his own son

It is widely thought that this story gave rise to the term Lynch Law or Lynching.

They were really uncivilised back in those days, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, eh!

The Wedding Album below is an excellent product. Recorded in the form of a consultation it answers all the questions that an intending bride and groom may have about the music for their ceremony and was voted No 1 wedding album at the recent Brides to Be Wedding Fair held in Dublin.

AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR ANY INTENDING

              WEDDING COUPLE

BONUS BONUS BONUS

If you live within a seventy mile radius of Galway City and you book me to perform at your wedding ceremony                          

The cost of the cd will be deducted from the fee.

That's all till next time

Hope you enjoyed the blog and the music

All the best

Brendan

A Blog about me

The Early years

Born in 1955 in a nursing home in Leeson Street in Dublin, they say I arrive just in time for Lunch, it probably figures as lunch to this day is a real important thing to me.

Did all the usual things a kid would do nothing too out of the ordinary, but I suppose back then if you were out of the ordinary, you'd be very quickly knocked back in to the ordinary with clip on the ear you wouldn't see coming'.

From an early age I could sing and my mother God Rest her had a little music in her, and went to school in St Louis Rathmines in Dublin who were seen as a progressive school for the performing arts in their day.

Any before I could barely walk The Panis Angelicus was drummed in to me and I was the next boy soprano on the block.

I went off to national school in Booterstown where guess what the Mercy Nuns discovered it too, that I could sing and sing really well, so in the Christmas concert that year I was turned in to singing tree, so the usual time was spent drumming the songs into me at home, and the various rehearsals at school etc, I was only five at this stage.

Anyway the big night came and I was shitting bricks because I thought I'd go wrong in the words or the air of the songs etc

The Curtain opened up and every one was there, grandmothers, mother's, father's, cousins, the whole bloody lot and I remember being blinded by the stage lights, and just below the stage was the wicked face of Sister Melion, the head nun, in those days the head nun did everything, even played the piano, and this witch was such a nun, if fact even though there were twenty other nuns in the school she was the only nun, oh a wicked bitch!!

Well the time duly came for me to warble my great soprano voice, the song was The Tree song, and it had a few fairly high notes in it and Sister wicked bitch Melion started the introduction, I started singing and half way through the first verse I felt I needed to water the geraniums but I kept going and got through the verse and into the chorus, headed on to the second verse as this stage the pressure was getting a lot worse and we hit the last chorus of the song and to make matters worse the last note of the song was real high and had to be hit well and Sister Wicked Bitch Melion couldn't take her eyes of me at all.

Just as I was about to rise to the height's of high g my bladder let go and the was a deluge of pee watering the base of the tree and all hell broke loose, the front curtain was quickly lowered on Sister Wicked Bitche's instructions

And she was around back stage with the leather strap out ready to punish me for the embarrassment I caused the whole school.

Luckily my father who had seen her reaction was hot on her heels and stopped her,

 I was then taken home and it was a long time after that until I sang again.

Some start to a professional career in the music business

That's all for now

Hope you enjoyed the blog and the music

All the best

Brendan

My Blogs

I am a musician, singer songwriter living in Galway, originally from Glasnevin in Dublin but now residing in Cloonboo a little village 7 miles north of Galway city which off course is now home.

You can use the player below to listen to my songs as you read and if you want to comment on same please do so on the comments page on my profile

I am the resident pianist guitarist and entertainer at Ashford Castle Cong County Mayo for the past 22 years performing nightly for the hotel guests which come from all over the world to stay.

In this series of Blogs I will endeavour to share with you some of the places, things of interest that I have discovered about Galway City and County whilst living here.

I will start with Galway City; Galway City has grown into a young vibrant city with a great love of music, the arts, dance etc.

 Like most cities in Ireland today it has a growing population of many nationalities, with particular emphases on eastern European nationalities

For me though, it is in the past history of Galway that there are things of interest.

At the junction of shop street (Main Street) and Abbey Gate Street there is an interesting early 16^th century tower house, which is Known as Lynch's Castle. It is now occupied a s bank, but not everyone knows that it's the oldest building in everyday commercial use in Ireland.

There is an ancient pub in Galway, one of many, known as The Kings Head an unusual name for a pub I thought when I had my first pint there some twenty five years ago, I mean The Queens Booze'em might have been more appropriate to attract drinkers etc. But how this pub got its name is nearly bazaar!!

It all came from the execution of King Charles the 1^st, who is thought to have been a Galway Man No less.

When he was to be executed, no English man would do the deed, so Oliver Cromwell sent out emails to Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and two men by the name of Gunning and Dean replied on their Dell Pentium Lap Top with instance, only to get a return email giving gunning the Job!

So he was flown 1^st Class on Ryan Air to Stan stead Airport and quickly transported to the Banqueting House In London where with a black hood over his head, he wielded the axe on poor Charlie, as Charlie uttered his last words " I GO FROM A CORRUPTIBLE TO AN INCORRUPTABLE CROWN".

Upon his return from London the parliament gave Gunning the property in appreciation for his efforts and it was duly named

THE KING'S HEAD.

Don't be put off, if your in Galway for a Break it's a great place to go for a night of fun music and crack, all the stunning Galway young maids with big bosoms hang out there, you'd want to mind, you wouldn't fall into your pint as your mind wanders where perhaps it shouldn't.

That's all for now

Hope you enjoyed the blog and the music

All the best

        Brendan        

Born in Dublin 1955, Early May, one of the more creative Taureans, started singing as a boy soprano at about 7 years. Started Piano lessons with seriousness, at 12 years old, having taught my self basic guitar at age 11. Attended the Royal Irish Academy, and studied both piano and guitar graduating with a diploma on both instrument's. Now at scholl leaving age year 1972 a living out of music was not up to much in Ireland back then, and parents decided it was time to get a real job. So I did, I worked in Insurance (which I hated) for seventeen years, but on the side was involved with a lot of musical societies in Dublin acting in the capacity of musical director.

Was tranferred to Galway as a loss ajduster(or lost adjuster) in 1984 and for one reason or another found my self with my guitar gigging, the hotels in the summer months for a few extra bob, whih of course the copper bosses did'nt think too highly of.

In 1985 I was asked to do 2 nights at Ashford Castle Hotel in Cong Co Mayo, and I have been performing there ever since(the copper bosses were told to take a hike) both on Piano playing all stlyes, and also as a guitarist singer.

I am a self taught computer operater and over the years have become an excellent programmer of music.

From early years I showed a keen interest in writing songs and now I'm here on my space, so in the months ahead I will upload recordings of my latest songs for you to hear.

That's all for now

Will post again soon

Brendan