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The annual Gradam Ceoil Awards, also known as \u2018the Oscars of traditional music\u2019, pay homage to musicians who have advanced, strengthened, and preserved traditional music in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of <strong>TG4 Gradam Ceoil 2023<\/strong> recipients reads as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ceolt\u00f3ir \/Musician \u2013 Mick O\u2019Brien<\/li>\n<li>Amhr\u00e1na\u00ed \/Singer \u2013 S\u00edle Denvir<\/li>\n<li>Ceolt\u00f3ir \u00d3g\/Young Musician \u2013 M\u00e9abh Smyth <\/li>\n<li>Gradam Saoil\/Lifetime Achievement \u2013 Fintan Vallelly <\/li>\n<li>Cumad\u00f3ir \/ Composer \u2013 Maurice Lennon<\/li>\n<li>Gr\u00fapa Ceoil\/Music Group- Mick, Louise, Michelle Mulcahy<\/li>\n<li>Gradam Comaoine\/Outstanding Contribution &#8211; ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Musician 2023<\/strong> will be awarded to Mick O\u2019Brien. Piper and tin whistle player <strong>Mick O\u2019Brien<\/strong> was born in Dublin in 1961 and began learning to play the pipes at age 9 from Leo Rowsome, Se\u00e1n Seery and Mick Touhey at the Thomas Street Pipers\u2019 Club. He later attended classes at Na P\u00edobair\u00ed Uilleann and became inspired by the playing of Patsy Touhey. His father, the influential accordion player Dinny O\u2019Brien, was also a significant source of inspiration. Throughout his career, he has conducted masterclasses on the pipes across Ireland, Europe and the US, and performed regularly as a solo artist and with other musicians including the RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra, and also with Norwegian groups Vamp, Hanne Krogh, and Secret Garden. <\/p>\n<p>He is also a successful recording artist and has featured on recordings with The Dubliners, Altan and Charlie Lennon, as well as his own albums <em>May Morning Dew (1996)<\/em> and <em>The Ancient Voice of Ireland (1999)<\/em>. His 2003 record <em>Kitty Lie Over<\/em> with fiddle player Caoimh\u00edn \u00d3 Raghallaigh is widely recognised as a major contribution to traditional music in recent decades, as is their 2011 album <em>Deadly Buzz<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, O\u2019Brien has performed as part of a trio with flute player Emer Mayock and fiddle player Aoife N\u00ed Bhriain. The group has released two albums \u2013 <em>Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts (2013)<\/em> and <em>More Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts (2021)<\/em> \u2013 as part of a project focused on music collected by James Goodman in the southwest of Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century. <\/p>\n<p>From Armagh <strong>M\u00e9abh Smyth<\/strong> is this year\u2019s recipient of the <strong>Young Musician 2023<\/strong> award. Smyth is a fiddle player who has been playing traditional music since the age of 7. She is a former student of the Armagh Pipers Club and her playing is inspired by the rhythmic style of fiddle from the regions of South Ulster and Donegal.<\/p>\n<p>From a musical family (her parents Rosie and Thomas are both fiddle players), Smyth performs regularly as a duo with her brother Tiarn\u00e1n and the pair released a self-titled EP in 2017. In the same year, they were semi-finalists in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Musician of the Year award. Earlier this year, she competed in the final of the Se\u00e1n \u00d3 Riada Gold Medal Competition alongside her sister Annie Smyth. She won the Ed Reavy Fiddle Player of the Year award in 2016, and, in 2021, she received first prize at the Fiddler of London competition.  Smyth also featured in Sruth \u2013 the TG4 series on young musicians, and last month was announced as one of six recipients of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland\u2019s Young Musicians\u2019 Platform Award for 2023. <\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s <strong>Lifetime Achievement 2023<\/strong> goes to <strong>Fintan Vallely<\/strong>. Fintan Vallely is a flute player, author, songwriter and educator, born in rural county Armagh in 1949. He played whistle, flute and uilleann pipes from his teenage years, has recorded several albums, including Fintan Vallely \u2013 Traditional Irish Flute Music (1979), The Starry Lane to Monaghan (1992), and Merrijig Creek (2021), in addition to touring across Ireland, in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>He published the first tutor for the Irish flute Timber \u2013 the Flute Tutor in 1986, went on to study ethnomusicology at Queens University Belfast, and from 1994\u201399 was The Irish Times\u2019 and Sunday Tribune\u2019s traditional music correspondent and reviewer.  In 1999, he edited Companion to Irish Traditional Music\u2014an A\u2013Z encyclopaedia of traditional music in Ireland which involved more than 200 writers. In 2011, a second edition was published and, in 2023, a third edition will be published by Cork University Press. His latest book is a major history of the bodhr\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>He has published numerous writings include biographies, and academic journal articles, chapters and reviews. He has been an organiser of major conferences in traditional music including the 1996 Crosbhealach an Cheoil \/ The Crossroads Conference with Liz Doherty, Hammy Hamilton, Eithne Vallely and Cormac Breathnach. <\/p>\n<p>As a lecturer in Irish traditional music, he has taught at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, University of Ulster, Trinity College Dublin, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Queen&#8217;s University Belfast, and the University of Newcastle. In 2012, he developed Comp\u00e1nach, an audio-visual concert interpretation of his Companion book, which he toured internationally with musicians including fiddle player Gerry O\u2019Connor, piper Tiarn\u00e1n \u00d3 Duinnchinn, dancer Sib\u00e9al Davitt, singer M\u00e1ire N\u00ed Choilm, singer and fiddle-player R\u00f3is\u00edn Chambers, fiddle player Liz Doherty, singer Karan Casey, and dancer Emma O\u2019Sullivan. This music is also on CD and DVD. He teaches flute at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy in Co. Clare annually and also at workshops in Ireland and abroad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maurice Lennon<\/strong> will be awarded <strong>Composer 2023<\/strong>. Fiddle player and composer Maurice Lennon was born in 1958 to the Lennon family of traditional musicians in Co. Leitrim. His father was the well-known fiddle player and teacher Ben Lennon \u2013 who received the Gradam Ceoil Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 \u2013 and his uncle, Charlie Lennon is a renowned composer, pianist and fiddle player who also received the composer award in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Lennon began playing traditional music at age 13. At age 17 he won the Senior Fiddle Championship at the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in 1977. In the same year, he founded the folk-rock band Stockton\u2019s Wing with flute and whistle player Paul Roche, banjo and mandolin player Kieran Hanrahan, guitarist and singer Tony Callinan and bodhr\u00e1n player Tommy Hayes. The band grew international success in the 1980\u2019s and 1990\u2019s and released many albums including Stockton\u2019s Wing (1978), Take a Chance (1980), and Full Flight (1986).<br \/>\nAfter leaving the band, Lennon\u2019s solo career has seen him collaborate with singers Se\u00e1n Keane, Ronnie Drew, Finbar Furey and Johnny McEvoy, as well as performing a central role in the music of Irish dance production Rag\u00fas. His most famous composition &#8216;If Ever You Were Mine&#8217; was recorded by Cherish the Ladies and featured on their 1992 album The Back Door, and also by Canadian fiddle player Natalie MacMaster. Other artists to record his compositions include The Kilfenora C\u00e9il\u00ed Band, Blazin\u2019 Fiddles, Noel Hill, Brian Rooney, Karen Tweed, Pride of New York, Liam O&#8217;Brien, Jerry O&#8217;Sullivan, Cathy Vard and Liam Lawton, The London Lasses and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Lennon has released a number of acclaimed albums as a solo artist, including Brian Boru &#8211; High King Of Tara (2001) and his solo fiddle album The Little Ones (2013), which included compositions \u2018The Road to Garrison\u2019 and \u2018The Belltable Waltz\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>Conamara singer <strong>S\u00edle Denvir<\/strong> is this year\u2019s <strong>Singer 2023<\/strong>.  S\u00edle Denvir is a sean-n\u00f3s singer, harpist, and academic whose music is deeply influenced by the Irish language, her upbringing in the Conamara Gaeltacht and the sean-n\u00f3s style of the region.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to performing as a solo artist, Denvir is a founding member of the traditional band L\u00edadan and has collaborated with many musicians throughout her career including The Chieftains, Barry Kerr, Liam \u00d3 Maonla\u00ed, Martin Hayes and \u00dana Monaghan. In 2018, she took part in the world premiere of M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 Suilleabh\u00e1in\u2019s Fill Ar\u00eds, performing with Iarla \u00d3 Lion\u00e1ird, Lillis \u00d3 Laoire and the National Symphony Orchestra, and in 2020, her singing featured on Rogha Raelach Volume 1, traditional music label Raelach Records\u2019 first compilation album.<\/p>\n<p>She is also a Lecturer at Dublin City University and is particularly interested in Irish language song in a modern context. She has published two books on Conamara songwriters, Tom a\u2019 tSeoighe: Amhr\u00e1in (2020) and Ciar\u00e1n \u00d3 F\u00e1tharta: Amhr\u00e1in (2008). Other research projects include a video series on the work of Tom a\u2019 tSeoighe for TG4 Molsc\u00e9al in 2020 and a CD and booklet on the music from the plays of Patrick Pearse \u2013 Caithr\u00e9im: Ceol agus Amhr\u00e1in \u00f3 Dhr\u00e1ma\u00ed an Phiarsaigh.<\/p>\n<p>Denvir is an accomplished composer and the music director of the new youth sean-n\u00f3s group Bl\u00e1th na h\u00d3ige. She regularly contributes to TV and radio programmes on TG4, and in 2023 will release her next album, Anamnesis \u2013 a recording of sean-n\u00f3s songs in collaboration with producer John Reynolds and cellist Caroline Dale.<\/p>\n<p>Last year a new award was introduced, the <strong>Music Group<\/strong> award and this year it goes to <strong>Mick, Louise, Michelle Mulcahy<\/strong>. Mick, Louise and Michelle Mulcahy are a family of musicians from Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick. All three are successful solo musicians as well as being highly regarded as a trio. They have recorded four albums together, representing the styles and repertoires of Sliabh Luachra, Clare and East Galway \u2013 The Mulcahy Family (1999), Notes From the Heart (2005), Reelin in Tradition (2009), and The Reel Note (2016). <\/p>\n<p>Mick (father to Louise and Michelle) was born in Kilmainham, Co. Kerry, and is a renowned traditional musician who plays B\/C, C#\/D, C\/C# and D\/D# systems of accordion, as well as melodeon and concertina. He was a member of the Brosna C\u00e9il\u00ed Band \u2013 winners of the All-Ireland title in 1972 \u2013 and also a composer and recording musician who released two solo albums, Mick Mulcahy (1976), and Mick Mulcahy and Friends (1990). <\/p>\n<p>Louise began playing the tin whistle at age 5 and later moved onto the flute, with Matt Molloy and Eamon Cotter as significant influences on her style. At age 13 she started to learn the uilleann pipes \u2013 taught by Dave Hegarty in Tralee and in monthly masterclasses at Na P\u00edobair\u00ed Uilleann \u2013 and is now a highly regarded musician in a largely male-dominated instrument. She is a performing musician, a tutor in the pipes and flute, and released solo album Tuning the Road in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>In 2021, she was awarded the Arts Council Markievicz Award (in honour of Constance de Markievicz), and in 2022, she was the winner of the Arts Council and National Concert Hall Liam O\u2019Flynn Award. In 2021, she presented Mn\u00e1 na bP\u00edob on TG4 \u2013 a feature-length documentary film about a group of lesser-known female pipers. <\/p>\n<p>Michelle also learned the whistle from age 5 and went on to play the button accordion, concertina, harp, fiddle, piano and melodeon. In 2006 she was awarded the Young Musician Award at the TG4 Gradam Ceoil, and in 2007, she performed on the Bill Whelan album The Connemara Suite alongside Zo\u00eb Conway and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. She is also an academic and her PhD research topic exploring the harp traditions of Burma and Ireland is the first of its kind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gradam Ceoil TG4<\/strong> is the premier annual traditional music awards scheme and academy.  An independent panel of adjudicators selects recipients each year.  It is not a competition.  The Gradam Ceoil recipients are presented with a specially commissioned piece by leading sculptor John Coll as well as a small stipend. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the announcement Proinsias N\u00ed Ghr\u00e1inne, Commissioning Editor for TG4 said, <em>&#8221; TG4 is delighted to honour and pay tribute to such remarkable talent for the 26th year of Gradam Ceoil. We hope that Gradam continues to be a marker for future artistic excellence across all areas of our music and song. Congratulations to all of the recipients.  We look forward to celebrating with them and welcoming audiences from near and far on April 23rd.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s awards will be presented at the Gradam Ceoil TG4 Concert in the National Concert Hall, Limerick on Sunday 23rd of April. At this live televised concert the 2023 Gradam recipients will be joined in performance on stage by their own special musical guests in a unique, star-studded line-up of musicians and award-presenters. Tickets on sale online from 10am Friday 10th March 2023 through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uch.ie\" target=\"_New\" rel=\"noopener\">www.uch.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Outstanding Contribution Award 2023<\/strong> will be announced in early April. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TG4 Gradam Ceoil 2023 is in its 26th year and the awards ceremony will air live on TG4 on Sunday the 23rd April at 9.30pm from University Concert Hall in Limerick. 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