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Nan Tom Teaimín de Búrca

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Nan Tom Teaimín de Búrca
Born
Nan Tom Teaimín

Connemara
NationalityIrish
Known forTraditional singing

Nan Tom Teaimín de Búrca is an Irish traditional sean-nós singer.[1][2]

Biography

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Nan Tom Teaimín de Búrca (also given as Nan Tom Taimín) is from Connemara. She moved to London in 1978 but there was no market for her traditional singing there at the time. When de Búrca moved back to Ireland she came to Rusheenamanagh, near Carna, County Galway. Today she teaches sean-nós singing and is a tutor for the masters course in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance which is part of the University of Limerick.[3][4] She has won a number of awards for her singing, including the Corn Uí Riada in both 1998 and 2000, the most prestigious annual award for sean-nós singing.[5][6] She also was awarded the TG4 Singer of the Year award in 2014.[7][8] She has released four solo albums of traditional Irish music, including folk songs and sean-nós as well as appearing on a number of collections of Irish music including Ireland : The Greatest Songs Ever.[9][10][11] She is a regular at festivals including being invited as a guest to the International Voice Festival in Lviv in Ukraine in 2002, where she gave a master class to people from all over the world.[3][12]

Albums

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  • Traditional Songs from Connemara
  • The Home I Left Behind
  • The Banks of the Old Pontchartrain
  • The Whispering Wind
  • Walking After Midnight

References and sources

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  1. ^ tonerquinn (12 September 2014). "A Gaeltacht Moment". Toner Quinn. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Nan Tom Teaimín". RTÉ Presspack. 22 April 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Sean-nos goes east". The Irish Times. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  4. ^ "irish world academy".
  5. ^ Costello, Eamonn (3 August 2015). "Sean-nós song in the Oireachtas na Gaeilge Festival: The Aesthetics of sean-nós song through the Gaze of the Oireachtas na Gaeilge Adjudicators". Academia.edu. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Nan Tom Taimín watches herself singing in 1974". RTÉ Presspack. 22 April 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Singer of the Year". TG4. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Ceolchoirm Cheiliúrtha ag RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta i Maigh Cuilin". Irish Music Magazine (in Irish). 28 February 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Listings from the Irish Traditional Music Archive". The Journal of Music: Irish Music News, Reviews & Opinion | Music Jobs & Opportunities. 19 August 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  10. ^ Gavin, John. "Traditional Irish Music CDs & DVDs - Free Worldwide Delivery". Trad Ireland. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  11. ^ "Songs from Connemara - Nan Tom Taimín". CIC. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  12. ^ "Page expired". Soutron LMS. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
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