A Warm Welcome!
For nearly twenty-five years, Tom Sweeney has travelled the highways and byways of Ireland, Europe and North America with his seemingly endless rattle bag of songs, stories, poetry and tunes.
His one man show is replete with the very essence of Irish culture which comes as no surprise when you consider that he has been immersed in the great tradition of ballad singing since he could speak. Tom's maternal grandmother, Sarah Makem, is generally considered to be one of the greatest sources of songs in the entire history of Irish music and as a boy he learned many of them around his granny's kitchen in County Armagh.
Latest News: Upcoming Dates
October 10th, 2007
Monday 17th March, Tom Sweeney’s Irish Night in the Strule Arts Centre, Omagh
Box Office +44(0)2882247831 www.struleartscentre.co.uk
Wednesday 19th March, St Eithne’s Primary School, Derry
Thursday 20th March, Gibson Primary School, Omagh
Friday 30th May, St Colmcille’s Primary School, Claudy
The following dates are for
Tom Sweeney’s Summer Sing-a-long for Children
Saturday 7th June, Alley Theatre, Strabane at 3pm
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Latest News: Irish Fest Volunteers. Meeting Musical Friends
August 23rd, 2007
If there’s a bigger or better Irish Festival than Milwaukee anywhere in the world I would love to see it! 4000 volunteers is an astounding number and the efficiency and skill with which they operate has to be seen to be believed. Congratulations to everyone of them.
A big thank you to the many people who […]
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Latest News: The Ninepenny Fiddle
February 20th, 2006
The Ninepenny Fiddle, Tom’s new book and accompanying CD of Irish songs for children is the first ever of it’s type! There has never been a fully illustrated, full colour children’s song-book of words and music with a CD of all the songs in the book! Now for the first time children, parents and teachers […]
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Latest News: Milwaukee Irish Fest
September 1st, 2005
Tom is delighted to have written the theme song for the 25th anniversary of the world famous Milwaukee Irish Fest. Considered to be the biggest Irish music festival in the world, the 2005 festival saw upwards of 135,000 people over the third weekend of August. The president of Ireland, Mary Mc Aleese opened the […]
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