INISHFREE GOES TO SEA
- Jan 30, 2022 - Feb 6, 2022 (rescheduled from 2021)
Join the Inishfree team (Johnsmith, Hugh Carthy, Paddy Downes) and our featured Irish musicians as Inishfree goes to Sea on an amazing journey through the southern Caribbean!
Our featured Irish performers include:
John Spillane
John Spillane is a musician, songwriter, performer, recording artist, storyteller, poet, dreamer. The man and his music are pure magic. John is a native of Cork, the County he lovingly describes as “the centre of the universe,” and it has been a huge creative influence on him. Vocally, he is quite unique with an almost sean nós-like (old style) element in his singing and he is said to have a voice “full of honesty, commitment and sensitivity. ”
“He’s carved a niche writing melodic, compelling, simple songs. Spillane is at his best when his delivery is unforced and lyrical.” Oliver P. Sweeney, The Ticket, Irish Times
Click here to watch John Spillane sing "All the Ways you Wander"
Blackie O’Connell and Cyril O’Donoghue
(‘Foolin in Doolin’)
Blackie O’Connell is one of the most exciting uilleann pipers in traditional music. He has his own distinctive style and is currently living, and playing, at the heart of Irish music in County Clare. Blackie regularly tours Europe, USA and the Far East and is recognizable from his role as an ambassador for Irish Tourism.
Click here to watch Blackie and Cyril play on the streets of Ennis
Cyril O’Donoghue, bouzouki player and singer, is a prominent feature in Ennis and County Clare’s traditional music scene.
Click here to watch Cyril sing
Seamus Begley
Seamus Begley is the possessor of one of the tradition’s tenderest voices. It embodies a vulnerability that seems at odds with his garrulous personality. An interpreter completely at home in that delicate space where singers must venture to fully inhabit a song. The Irish Times
Cathy Jordan
Roscommon born Cathy Jordan has been a professional singer with traditional group, Dervish, for over 25 years now. She is a self-taught guitar, bouzouki, bodhrán and bones player. She has led Dervish as front woman through thousands of concerts in hundreds of cities in nearly 40 countries. Not only is Cathy a renown Irish artist, she also leads two Inishfree Tours each year.
Click here to watch Kathy sing
Donogh Hennessy
Donogh Hennessy, who has performed and recorded with many leading Irish bands/artists, including Sharon Shannon, Lumiere, John Spillane, and Seamus Begley, will join Seamus Begley as well as Cathy Jordan on the cruise.
Special Features on cruise:
This is an exclusive program available only for passengers booked through Fan Club Cruises. https://fanclubcruises.com/event/inishfree-goes-to-sea
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Meet & Greet with the Inishfree Team (Johnsmith, Hugh Carthy, Paddy Downes), and our featured Irish musicians
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Three private concerts with our featured Irish musicians
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Q &A and Storytelling session
DAY | Ports | ARRIVE | DEPART |
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SUN 01/30 | San Juan, Puerto Rico
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8:30 PM |
MON 01/31 | Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
| 8:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
TUE 02/01 | St. Croix, U.S.V.I | 8:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
WED 02/02 | Philipsburg, St. Maarten | 8:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
THU 02/03 | Castries, St. Lucia
| 9:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
FRI 02/04 | Bridgetown, Barbados | 7:00 AM | 4:30 PM |
SAT 02/05 | Basseterre, St Kitts & Nevis | 10:00 AM | 6:00PM |
SUN 02/06 | San Juan, Puerto Rico | 7:00 AM |
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ACCOMMODATIONS (comparing the original options on the Celebrity Cruise ship to the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL):
Category Type | Celebrity | Old Price | RCCL | New Price |
Suite | S1 | 2849.00 | J3 | 1899.00 |
S2 | 2799.00 | J4 | 1799.00 | |
Spacious balcony | C1 | 1749.00 | 2B | 1259.00 |
C2 | 1699.00 | 4B | 1239.00 | |
C3 | 1649.00 | |||
Balcony | 2A | 1499.00 | 2D | 1139.00 |
2B | 1449.00 | 4D | 1099.00 | |
Oceanview | 06 | 1279.00 | 2N | 999.00 |
07 | 1249.00 | 4N | 969.00 | |
Interior | 10 | 1144.00 | 4V | 869.00 |
Johnsmith's newest CD
John's preferred method is for you to buy the CDs directly from him by emailing him at mailto:john@johnsmithmusic.com and we will send you an email invoice that can be paid with a credit card. Please include the number of CDs you want and your address.
Price is $15 for 1 CD plus $1 shipping or buy multiple CDs: 2 for $27, 3 for $38 etc.
Or you can send a check to:
Johnsmith
24721 2nd St.Trempealeau, WI 54661Ireland Tours
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