Dia's Muire Dhaoibh,

Súil agam go bhfuilin sibh go maith. I'm delighted to post up the tour dates for my upcoming tour with Julie Fowlis, Eamon Doorley and Ross Martin of our project "Dual". Ag súil go mór leis, b'fhéidir go gcífimid ann cuid agaibh.

28th May. 8pm. Regional Cultural Centre, Port Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

29th May 8pm. The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim

30th May, 8pm.  An Droichead, Cook St, Belfast.

1st June, 8pm.  The Crane, 2 Sea Road, Galway.

3rd June, 8pm. Linnenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo

4th June, 8pm.  Celbridge Library, Celbridge, Co. Kildare.

5th June, 8pm. Racket Hall Country House Hotel, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary

6th June, 8pm. Ionad an Bhlacaoid Mhóir, Dún Chaoin, Co. Chiarraí

In other news, I am a broken woman, stuck to my couch, after a crazy few months of lots of very enjoyable work including a fantastic tour of the States with Danú, a trip to Bulgaria with President McAleese, and presenting and performing at the TG4 Music Awards with the fantastic Dáithí Ó Sé (Up Kerry!) which will be aired on Easter Sunday at 9.30pm!

Having a bit of a rest and finishing up the term with my students at UL. Lovely to be at home for a while. The next gigs coming up will be lovely, I'm heading on tour with "Piperlink" to the States in May, check out www.pipers.ie for dates. I'm adjudicating the Siansa Gael-Linn Competition for young bands, beidh jab an dheacair agam an oíche sin mar tá an caighdeán comh ard, recording a few songs with the wonderful Martin Simpson for his new album and have the honour of launching the new album of my good friends "Liadan" in Dolan's in Limerick on the 18th of April. Beidh oíche go maidin ansan againn is cinnte.

So sin é go fóil, tried to set up a Twitter account and gave up after one go. What is it for exactly? I'm not sure about it....

Cáisc Fé Mhaise daoibh go léir, Happy Easter!!!!

Muireann x