Dave McGilton

I thought I had posted on this already,apologies-The great Aidan Dooley is back in Ireland and doing a 6 week  tour of his new play "O'Sullivan Beara-The Last Gaelic Chieftain"-i'm delighted to have collaborated with Aidan on the play and have done the music /score for it.His performance is top notch as always.-

Dates are below:

APRIL

Belltable Arts Centre-Limerick Fri 15th/Sat 16th April www.belltable.ie 061 319886

Mon 18th April- Simon Ryan Theatre,Tipperary www.tipperary-excel.com  062 80250

Tues 19th…

Well,

It's just over a year since I began this project and I'm delighted to say, having had great assistance,musically and engineering wise, from the brilliant Donncha Moynihan(thank you Donn) at the helm in his Rise Studio and with great musical contributions from top class artists, the album is finished. In addition to being a collection of songs about the people places and things that have inspired me these are among the best of my folk songs from nearly 20 years of writing.More than anything though it…

Hi all, i've just put together a small video clip for The Sky Belongs to Dreamers. I hope you enjoy it and that it pays proper tribute to an extraordinary man and to all those who gave their lives trying to save the lives of countless others. It seems so long ago now considering all that's happened since and very little of it good but hope springs...  it can be seen here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4q28P_VcHc

Hi to all, when you visit the website a song will automatically start playing .The songs will be varied week to  week and if you want to stop a song playing, the player is at the very top of the page in that black strip you can see across the top of any page.You'll see the songtitle in the narrow strip at top of page.That is the player,the controls are to the left of the songtitle...that way if you choose to prefer to watch the video clip at bottom of the home page you wont be blasted with two songs at the…

Just listening now to the mastered CD which arrived yesterday .  I’m more than delighted with it-it sounds just fantastic, great mastering of the CD by Ruairi O’Flaherty.  I’m very excited to have the full and completed album as we began this over a year ago and it’s so fitting that it arrives now as we’ve  just marked a year since my Dad passed on and the album is a tribute to him.

 I’ll be sorting the sleeve this coming week and will include the lyrics to all the songs. The song you’re hearing on…

Hi to all who might be visiting the site,thank you for the emails and lovely comments. I'm in the process of putting together a few clips on windows moviemaker to co-incide with the new album being almost ready for the off.

they're very basic videos but they give an idea and feel of some of the songs to come and one  can be found on my youtube channel at present,a clip for The Day Has Yet to Come. The link for it is just below my  words on the opening page of the website.

I received a huge compliment from…

Like so many worldwide I’ve been glued to the unfolding events in Cairo and the Middle East.The revolutions that have taken place in Tunisia and Egypt have been extraordinary and show how powerful people are when they are united in their desire to bring real change to their lives instead of living in increasing desperation and frustration One look at the story and accompanying horrific and heartbreaking photos of KHALED SAID in Cairo or the story and pics of MOHAMED BOUAZIZI in Tunisia or the…

Well,its the 4/10/10 and August has been really really busy.I'll sit down soon and give a proper and full description of the two events that took all of my time during August,namely Aidan Dooley's new play "O'Sullivan Beara-The Last Gaelic Chieftain" and Christina Henri's "Roses from the Heart" Project Both projects were really successful and were an absolute pleasure and honour to be associated and involved with.I'll post some pics of both events and give a more detailed description of what occurred.…

Roses from the Heart ™ Roses from the Heart™ is impacting on thousands of people, influencing them to travel and reconnect with family members on the other side of the world. Families living in Great Britain and Ireland are visiting Australia to travel in the footsteps of their convict ancestors. Australians are traveling back home to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales to see the land from whence their ancestors came. In some cases families are meeting for the first time as people learn about relatives…

Earlier this year I had a meeting here in Cork with Aidan Dooley,the writer and actor whose brilliant play Tom Crean Antarctic Explorer has been so well received and celebrated in the past few years.We had first met in Gougane Barra in 2008 and collaborated a little on that play in that the chorus of one of my songs is used in the play.Shortly after that Aidan mentioned he was researching background for a new play on O'Sullivan Beara,one of our long lost heroes in Irish history Aidan confirmed during the…