Where was Riverdance, whose music was created by Máirtín O'Connor, first performed in 1995?
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Máirtín O'Connor Máirtín O'Connor is an Irish button accordionist from Galway, Ireland, who began playing at the age of nine, and whose career has seen him as a member of many traditional music groups that include Skylark, Midnight Well, De Dannan, and The Boys of the Lough. A traditional Irish musician, O'Connor was one of the major forces of the music in the world-renowned "Riverdance".
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Riverdance Riverdance is a theatrical show consisting mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. Featuring Irish dancing champions Jean Butler and Michael Flatley, and with a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. Shortly afterwards, husband and wife production team John McColgan and Moya Doherty expanded it into a stage show, which opened in Dublin on 9 February 1995. Since then, the show has visited over 450 venues worldwide and been seen by over 25 million people, making it one of the most successful dance productions in the world.
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Abbey Road on the River Abbey Road on the River (AROTR) is a five-day, multi-staged music festival which was initially created to honor the music and spirit of The Beatles. The festival took place in Louisville, Kentucky over Memorial Day weekend but moved across the river to Jeffersonville, Indiana starting in 2017. Tribute bands, as well as internationally recognized bands, perform over the course of the festival, playing the music of The Beatles, as well as the music of other artists. Abbey Road on the River is a four-time winner of the Kentucky Travel Industry Association's Top 10 Spring Festivals.
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Monasterevin Monasterevin (Irish: "Mhainistir Eimhín" ) is a town in County Kildare in Ireland. The town lies on the River Barrow and the Barrowline a canal branch of the Grand Canal. Its population of 3,710 (2011 Census ) makes it the 11th largest town in Kildare and the 105th largest in Ireland.
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Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (] , meaning "Society of the Musicians of Ireland") is the primary Irish organisation dedicated to the promotion of the music, song, dance and the language of Ireland. The organisation was founded in 1951 and has promoted Irish music and culture among the Irish people and the Irish diaspora.
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Dance Valley Dance Valley ("The Woodstock of Dance") is an annual dance music festival held in the summer in Spaarnwoude, Netherlands. The first edition was in 1995 when 8,000 people attended (and in 2001 90,000 visitors). Dance Valley grew rapidly, both in duration and number of visitors.
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Dreamin' (Eddie Friel song) "Dreamin'" was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995, performed in English by Eddie Friel.
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Celtic Woman Celtic Woman is an all-female Irish musical ensemble conceived and created by David Kavanagh, Sharon Browne and David Downes, a former musical director of the Irish stage show "Riverdance." In 2004, he recruited five Irish female musicians who had not previously performed together: vocalists Chloë Agnew, Órla Fallon, Lisa Kelly and Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, and fiddler Máiréad Nesbitt, and shaped them into the first lineup of the group that he named "Celtic Woman", a specialty group. Downes chose a repertoire that ranged from traditional Celtic tunes to modern songs.
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Eurodancemix Eurodancemix.com was a website dedicated to Eurodance music. It started officially on July 18, 1997 from the merge of Eurodancemix Montréal (ran by Frédéric Renaud) and Dance Music Artists (ran by M. Fuljahn). Eurodancemix Montréal (formerly known as Eurodance Montréal/Eurodance Muzik Montréal) was dedicated mostly to Candance (Canadian Dance) artists such as Capital Sound and Temperance. Dance Music Artists has lots of information about international artists that were popular in South America and Europe. The website closed its doors in 1999 because there wasn't that much Eurodance music released at the time.
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Slamdance Film Festival The Slamdance Film Festival is an annual film festival focused on emerging artists and low-budget independent films, created in 1995.
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North Cregg North Cregg are an Irish traditional band from Cork, Ireland. They were formed in 1996 in Cork out of a thriving pub session scene.
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Woodstock en Beauce Woodstock en Beauce was a yearly weekend-long music festival held in St-Ephrem-de-Beauce, Quebec, Canada. It was created in 1995 with the intention to re-create the atmosphere of the original Woodstock Festival in 1969, emphasizing on the atmosphere of peace and fun. The first edition of the festival attracted about 5,000 people, but it now attracts crowds of over 78,000 people. It has been nominated three times at the ADISQ awards in the category for the event of the year.
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Robin Antin Robin Antin (born July 6, 1961) is an American dancer, choreographer, actress, and clothing designer entrepreneur. In 1995 she founded the modern burlesque troupe the Pussycat Dolls. By 2005, she diversified into various media including a pop recording group with international hits, a Las Vegas nightclub venue and floorshow, various merchandise, and a reality television series. Since then, she has gone on to create other girl groups, including Girlicious, the Paradiso Girls, and G.R.L.
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Canada Dance Festival The Canadian Dance Festival is an annual Ottawa, Ontario event founded in 1987. Held in June, it sets the stage for Canada's most contemporary, innovative and leading edge dance choreographers and dance companies. The festival includes events at the National Arts Centre, as well as featured performances at other locations including the National Gallery of Canada and outdoor dance in Ottawa city parks and other Urban settings. It attracts international dance promoters and international media who attend the festival to follow the developments of Canadian dance and to select artists for their respective festivals and dance series.
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New York Dance Festival The New York Dance Festival () is a multi-cultural festival of performing arts with three milestone events in the city of the world; New York City and with an annual multi week international festival each summer in Auburn, New York the heart of the beautiful Finger Lakes. Boasting history that includes the homes of Harriet Tubman and William Seward and the Merry Go Round Playhouse, the Festival is hosted by one of the region’s only African American led performing arts organizations. The Festival Dance Festival has become one of the nation's most novel cultural expressions and brings the world-class arts scene of New York City and the world to Upstate New York. The New York Dance Festival runs for two weeks in July, and includes the "New York Summer Dance Intensive", with additional offerings of the "New York Drum Festival", the "New York Musical Theatre Project", the "Carmen De Lavallade Awards for Dance", the "Thommie Walsh Song & Dance Man Gala", Fellowships, Residencies, and a World Class Concert Series.
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Carrignavar Carrignavar (Irish: "Carraig na bhFear" , meaning "the rock of the men" ) is a village in County Cork, north of Cork city. It lies east of Whitechurch and west of the R614 road, by a bridge over the Cloghnagash River.
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River of Deceit "River of Deceit" is a song by the American rock band Mad Season, released in 1995 as the first single from the band's only studio album, "Above" (1995). The song reached number two on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and is the band's most well known song.
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River Songs River Songs is the third full length studio album by American band The Badlees. It was released on their independent label, Rite-Off Records, in February 1995 and sold over 10,000 units before being picked up by the national label Polydor/Atlas after the band signed with that label later in 1995. The album was re-released nationally with no further production enhancement in October 1995 and went on the spawn three national hits - "Fear of Falling", "Angeline Is Coming Home", and "Gwendolyn".
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Michael Flatley Michael Ryan Flatley (born July 16, 1958) is an American dancer, choreographer, and musician. He became internationally known for Irish dance shows "Riverdance", "Lord of the Dance", "Feet of Flames", and "Celtic Tiger".
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Red Wall Gang The Red Wall Gang was a drug dealing/joyriding gang who operated in the Cherry Orchard area of Ballyfermot in west Dublin, Ireland from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. By 1995, the red wall around which they gathered was a major hub in Ireland's illegal drug trade. They are known for the area's 1995 Halloween riot .
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Castlebridge Castlebridge (Irish: "Droichead an Chaisleáin" ) is a large village on the R741 regional road in County Wexford, Ireland, north of Wexford Town. It is located near the River Slaney and just north of Wexford Harbour. Castlebridge is a rapidly expanding suburb of Wexford town, its population increased from 783 in 1996 to 1,013 in 2002, and to 1624 in the 2006 census, and 1726 in 2011.
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(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River "(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River" was the first single to be released off "Machiavelli and the Four Seasons" (1995) by Australian alternative rock band TISM. It is often referred to as "I'm On the Drug That Killed River Phoenix".