Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Northern Lights - Music for Winter!

Just found this very interesting album featuring a blend of Irish and Scandinavian music from Lorcán Mac Mathúna and friends. Here's a bit from their website:

Like their landscapes, the music of Ireland and Scandinavia are spectacular, inspiring, and very different to each other. Northern Lights brings “Songs of the Fjord and Glen,” an exploration of Irish and Scandinavian traditional songs and dance music that connects a vast musical landscape. This performance evokes everything between the ice of the North sea and the warmth of Irish summer pastures, in search of a deeper understanding of the things that unite us all.

Northern Lights is a blending of Norse and Irish: sagas, stories, soundscapes, cultural flavours and perspectives, through a meeting of their music and songs. It is a project of Lorcán Mac Mathúna (voice, whistle), Raphael De Cock (voice, pipes, siberian harp, shrutti, hardanger fiddle, jews harp), and James Mahon (uillean pipes, whistle flutes). 

To find out a little more on the background and theme of the project visit the Northern Lights website.




Monday, November 26, 2012

Events for the end of 2012 and into 2013 so far...


Thanks so much to all the wonderful librarians and readers and book clubs who've invited me to come and speak recently! Here are the new dates for the end of this year and into next. There's a lot more in store for 2013, when THE BOOK OF KILLOWEN is published. Check the running list on my website!

2012

December 2
STILLWATER, MN
Meeting with a local book club
December 6, 7:00 pm
SAINT PAUL, MN
The Liffey Irish Pub
175 7th Street West
Saint Paul, MN 55102
(651) 556-1420
Reading with Irish and Irish-American writers including Jim Rogers, David O'Sullivan, Siobhan Kierans, Patrick O'Donnell, and Tracie Loeffler Donaghy Sponsored by The Cracked Walnut Reading Company
December 10
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Meeting with a local book club

2013

January 10
MENDOTA HEIGHTS, MN
Thursday Club Luncheon
Mendakota Country Club
January 22
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
AAUW Book Club
March 5
SAINT PAUL, MN
LAUNCH PARTY FOR THE BOOK OF KILLOWEN
Location TBA
March 14, 7:00 pm
LITCHFIELD, MN
Litchfield Public Library
216 North Marshall Avenue
Litchfield, MN 55355
(320) 693-2483
March 17, 7:00 pm
HUDSON, WI
CHULRUA IN CONCERT (that's my husband Paddy O'Brien and his band)
Phipps Center for the Arts
109 Locust Street
Hudson, WI 54016
(715) 386-8409 tickets
March 22, 5:00 pm
WARROAD, MN
Warroad Public Library
202 North Main Avenue
Warroad, MN 56763
(218) 386-1283
March 23, 1:00 pm
ROSEAU, MN
Roseau Public Library
121 Center Street East, Suite 100
Roseau, MN 56751
(218) 463-2825
March 23, 4:00 pm
GREENBUSH, MN
Greenbush Public Library
224 Main Street North
Greenbush, MN 56726
(218) 782-2218
March 28, 6:00 pm
HALLOCK, MN
Hallock City Hall (attached to Hallock Public Library)
163 3rd Street South
Hallock MN 56728
(218) 843-2401
March 29, 5:00 pm
WARREN, MN
Warren-Godel Memorial Library
314 East Johnson Avenue
Warren, MN 56762
(218) 745-8807
March 30, 1:00 pm
THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN
Thief River Falls Public Library
102 First Street East
Thief River Falls, MN 56701
(218) 681-4325
March 30, 4:00 pm
RED LAKE FALLS, MN
Red Lake Falls Public Library
105 Champagne Avenue
Red Lake Falls, MN 56750
(218) 253-2992

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Library Journal: Prepub Alert for March 2013

Thrilled to find THE BOOK OF KILLOWEN included in Library Journal's prepub alert, a listing called "What's Hot" for March 2013, with fellow crime writers Rhys Bowen and Paul Doherty, among others! And now I'm feeling like an awful tease, since it'll be another 3+ months until the book is out. I am so sorry. (Okay, not really.)




Here's a link to the full article at the magazine's website.