Christy Moore announces new Dublin dates + features on Ewan MacColl tribute

2016 is going to be another busy year for the folk legend!

Christy Moore adds four September live dates

He'll be coming to his Northern Irish fans this autumn.

Christy Moore joins Iveagh Gardens line-up

Christy Moore has announced a July 11 visit to Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens, tickets for which are €44 and go on sale on Monday March 3.

Christy Moore To Support New Road

Will support the band at their Whelan’s gig.

Christy Moore - Where I Come From

Sweeping collection attests to the genius of one of our greats

Christy Moore announces Irish tour

Busy few months in store for the trad hero...

Christy Moore for Whelan's

The folk icon plays Dublin this July.

CANCELLED: Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott shows

The shows due to take place tonight and tomorrow night at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre have been rescheduled due to illness.

Extra Christy Moore dates added for 2013

Three more opportunities to catch the folk icon.

Folk That: Moore Than A Feeling

Watching Christy Moore play charity gig was an opportunity to see a master at work.

Christy Moore Announces Extra Dublin Dates

He plays a benefit concert in December before heading for the Grand Canal Theatre in the New Year.

Still Raging After All These Years

After many decades traversing the highways and byways of Ireland and beyond, Christy Moore’s new record is still as relevant, thought-provoking and essential as any he’s made before.

Folk Tale

Vintage album from a man smitten by truth

Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott for Vicar Street

All in aid of a very good cause!

THE KILDARE BOY:The Christy Moore Story

Selected as the Best Irish Male singer at the Meteor Awards 2010, CHRISTY MOORE first emerged as a performer towards the end of the 1960s. Since then, he has become one of the most distinctive and influential voices in Irish music. A magnetic performer, his work variously with Planxty, Moving Hearts and as a solo artist, has been widely acclaimed and he is regarded among his international peers as one of the pre-eminent folk singers.

Extra Dates for Christy Moore

He'll play the Grand Canal Theatre in January with Declan Sinnott

Christy Moore & Declan Sinnott confirm Dublin dates

They're playing four shows over the festive period.

Christy Moore to Play Rare Solo Show

Singer to play Whelan's of Wexford Street

Christy Moore Included in New Irish Poetry Anthology

Musician to appear alongside Seamus Heaney, Oscar Wilde and Jonathan Swift .

Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign to launch 'Irish Artists Pledge to Boycott Israel' tomorrow

The pledge will be launched in Temple Bar, with Christy Moore, Damien Dempsey and Donal Lunny among those who have already signed up

Christy Moore & Declan Sinnott ride on to Roscommon

The duo will perform live at the Douglas Hyde Centre this September

The Kildare Boy; The Christy Moore Story

Selected as the Best Irish Male singer at the Meteor Awards 2010, CHRISTY MOORE first emerged as a performer towards the end of the 1960s. Since then, he has become one of the most distinctive and influential voices in Irish music. A magnetic performer, his work variously with Planxty, Moving Hearts and as a solo artist, has been widely acclaimed and he is regarded among his international peers as one of the pre-eminent folk singers.

"We need new politics in Ireland," says Christy Moore

In one of his most candid and revealing interviews ever, folk legend Christy Moore tells Hot Press that we currently have a "flawed and corrupt system."

Christy Moore & John Spillane play Haiti benefit

It's taking place next month in Vicar St.

Christy Moore to sing at benefit concert for flood victims

He will perform at the SIPTU Centenary Celebration Concert in Liberty Hall on December 7.

Christy Moore & Luka Bloom play joint gig!

It's happening next month in County Cork.

Christy Moore adds Bantry date

He's appearing as part of the star-studded Masters Of Tradition festival.

New Christy Moore album

You can get your first taster of Listen this week.

Christy Moore added to Other Voices

RTÉ's Other Voices have announced more acts for next year's show, including Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott. Plus, your last chance to get tickets for the recordings....

Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott plan Christmas tour

Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott have lined-up a December/January run of dates in Dublin's Vicar Street.

Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott add Northern gigs

Another of the big Electric Picnic success stories, Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott, have announced a brace of Norn Iron shows.

Getting Moore than they bargained for

Heckling the opening act at a Christy Moore gig can bring unforeseen consequences, as some punters found out recently.

A Moore intimate gig

Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott play what by their standards is a highly intimate club show in Whelan’s, Dublin on April 7.

Christy Moore adds new Irish date

Tickets seem to be selling faster than Christy can put on shows, but he’s doing his best, with another Irish date added for next April.

Christy Moore & Declan Sinnott announce live dates

Christy Moore has announced a series of live shows with Declan Sinnott over Christmas and New Year's.

Christy Moore + others for special benefit show

Christy Moore plays a special show in Dublin’s National Concert Hall on June 23 in aid of Console, the Irish charity that helps people affected by suicide.

Christy Moore to release 'lost' album

This week sees the unleashing this week of The Spirit Of Freedom, Christy Moore’s legendary “lost” album, which received only a limited vinyl release in 1985.

Midlands Music Festival line-up revealed!

Following on from last year's inaugural festival, the bill for the country/roots-centric Midlands Music Festival has been revealed.

Christy Moore to perform on BBC 2

Christy Moore follows in Duke Special and Damien Rice’s footsteps by performing on the new series of Later With Jools Holland, which airs every Friday at 11.35pm on BBC 2.

Christy almighty!

Recent months have seen Christy Moore return to the fray with renewed vigour and an appetite for live performance

Live At The Point 2006

It takes a rare talent indeed to reduce a venue as cavernous as The Point to the intimacy of a sitting room, but Christy does it for 35 songs, over two magnificent hours.

Christy Moore announces charity gig

The very charitable Christy Moore is headlining a special benefit in aid of the Pakistan Disaster Appeal, only two months after his show for New Orleans victims.

Archive artist of the fortnight: Christy Moore

Given that he’s this issue’s cover star, it’s only fitting that the many Christy Moore goodies in our possession are dug up and given a new lease of life. So, if you’re sitting comfortably, let’s begin…

Christy Business

Back in the saddle witha politically charged new album, Burning Times Christy Moore and co-collaborator Declan Sinnott are putting the agit-prop back into folk. In a rare interview, Moore speaks frankly abot Hattie Carroll and Rachel Corrie, Richard Thompson anoraks, interpreting Morrissey and recently being detained by British authorities under anti-terrorism laws.

Christy Moore adds more tour dates

Dublin gets a holiday bonus as Christy Moore adds tour dates.

Moore,Moore,Moore

National treasure Christy Moore returns to the fray with a new studio album.

Burning Times

Burning Times – sonically fashioned in his usual magisterial style by Declan Sinnott – addresses concrete sprawling issues in songs like Natalie Merchant’s ‘Motherland’ and Rennie and Brett Sparks ‘Peace In The Valley Once Again’.

Christy Moore live at Vicar St, Dublin

Christy Moore headlines a benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. At short notice, Moore recruited artists such as Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan, Mary Coughlan and Declan Sinnott. Together they served up a feast of folk and blues.

Christy Moore announces double Dublin date

Fresh from his concert in aid of the New Orleans victims, Christy Moore has announced two more high profile dates at The Point, Dublin.

Christy gigs for New Orleans

Since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, musicians around the globe have been rallying to support the relief cause.

Christy Moore live at The Marquee, Cork

By the banks of the Lee, Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott paid homage to Cork-born songwriters by interspersing a set of Christy classics like 'Lisdoonvarna' and 'Nancy Spain' with great covers including 'Magic Nights At The Lobby Bar' by John Spillane and 'The Contender' by Jimmy McCarthy.

Christy Moore & Glen Hansard support Hot Press Petition

Two of the country's leading musicians have added their names to the Hot Press petition opposing proposed changes to the Criminal Justice Bill

Folk Centre: The Detainees

Christy Moore is the latest performer to fall foul of anti-terrorist paranoia. Plus the usual round-up of news from the trad and folk scene.

Christy Moore announces Vicar St. dates

November sees Christy Moore joined on the Vicar St. stage by Donal Lunny and Declan Sinnott

The war on war

Richard Boyd Barrett on the background to the upcoming anti-war gig in The Point – and why music can help amplify the voice of the people

Bushwhacking day comes to Dublin

Christy Moore, Kila, The Revs and Damien Rice are among the artists confirmed for the anti-war gig at The Point next month

The Box Set: 1964- 2004

For a man who generally guards his privacy with considerable zeal, this six CD box set is a generous entree into the private realm and thoughts of a man who has chronicled Ireland’s place in the modern world with all the passion, courage and clarity of a homegrown Woody Guthrie.

Christy Moore confirmed for the London Fleadh

Further artists have been announced for the London Fleadh bill, while elsewhere, headliner Bob Dylan has been revealed as the unlikely new face of Victoria's Secret underwear

Christy Moore - Box Set Details Announced

As exclusively revealed in Hot Press, Christy Moore gets the retrospective treatment with the massive 6-CD Christy Moore 1964-2004 which is released by Columbia on March 19.

Christy Moore to be recognised by new IRMA Honour

The inaugural IRMA Honours will be presented in Dublin on February 27

Vicar St. fundraiser sold out: non-attendance tickets available

It may be too late to catch Christy and Damien Dempsey, but you can still support the Beaumont Hospital Oncology Unit

Do you believe in magic?

Christy Moore, who headlines this year’s rejuvenated Lisdoonvarna Festival, recalls the first flowering of music festivals in Ireland – and looks forward to this year’s event, when once again the challenge will be to weave that spell

NEWSFLASH!

Christy Moore and Sinead O'Connor to play charity event in Vicar St

Lisdoonvarna is back!

The folk festival is relaunched after a 20 year absence

January Man

Live At Vicar Street

The break, brief as it was, seems to have done him a power of good. His voice on this recording is lighter, stronger, and more flexible than it's been in years

Moore landing

Christy Moore is set to play his first London shows in five years.

The Moore the better

Up close and personal: Christy Moore confirmed in unbelievably rare small-venue show in legendary Dublin local Whelans

Riding on...

Irish/folk legend Christy Moore confirms four live dates in the brand-spanking-refurbished National Stadium in late summer

So Do I

In many ways, Christy Moore has been the voice of Ireland over the past few decades.

This Is The Day

When everybody’s yelling for your attention, it’s Christy Moore's soft voice that catches your ear

Traveller

CHRISTY HITS the chill-out zone? It’s enough to put the heart across club culturalists and hardcore troubadours alike. Moore’s often bedecked his songs with gaudy tapestries, but on Traveller, in partnership with Leo Pearson, he’s cross-pollinating folk forms with deep space beats, head music and ambient swashes, sticking his neck out further than ever before.

Christy Moore plays the Inaugural Gig at the Mean Fiddler

THE QUEUES down Wexford Street for this rare club appearance from the mighty Christy were reminiscent of the crowds that stormed The Baggot Inn for those legendary Moving Hearts shows, all of fifteen years ago. Since then, Christy has become a megastar of ludicrous proportions and not surprisingly, the "Sold Out" signs were in place by around 8:00pm.

At The Point Live

CHRISTY MOORE: “At The Point Live” (Sony)

CHRISTY MOORE

CHRISTY MOORE: (The City Varieties, Leeds)

King Puck

CHRISTY MOORE: “King Puck” (Columbia)

Alone Again Naturally

An essential Bill Graham interview with one of Ireland's landmark musicians - revisited to celebrate his newly-announced dates for 2013.

Ride On

After his divorce from Moving Hearts, dejection must have seemed almost like a friend to Christy Moore.

The Long Rider

The Christy Moore Interview By John Waters [with pics by Fergus Bourke (1984) and Colm Henry (1980)]