THE MARTY PARTY IN SPAIN
Holiday World Polynesia Hotel, Benalmadena
4 Nights out of 6 now available to residents of Spain
That’s right, Marty Morrissey is taking his Marty Party show to the Costa Del Sol for a week of great fun, great entertainment and plenty of laughs. Marty will be joined by a host of stars including Tommy Fleming, Sharon Shannon, The Galway Tenors, Kate Purcell and many more. Tickets sales are now open to Spanish residents with a percentage of Ticket Sales going to support Iberia GAA.
FOR 4 DATES ONLY
Thursday 3rd , Friday 4th, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6 October Limited and Restricted Availability to The Marty Party in Spain.
It's a 2 hour Show that will include Sharon Shannon, Kate Purcell (Thursday) The Galway Tenors, Shauna Mc Stravock, Patrick O'Sullivan, Onoir, Patrick Roche and many more with Special Guests:
THURSDAY NIGHT; TOMMY FLEMING
FRIDAY NIGHT; GEORGE MURPHY
SATURDAY NIGHT; LIAM O' CONNOR
SUNDAY NIGHT; MARY COUGHLAN
Ticket Price €50 per person per night including Booking Fee.
Very Limited Number of Tickets now available only for Residents of Spain. Percentage of Spain ONLY ticket sales proceeds will go to Iberia GAA.
TICKET DETAILS
4 Nights out of 6 Marty Party Nights now available to Residents of Spain
Very Limited Number of Tickets now available only for Residents of Spain ( See Details on Booking Form)
Dates Available: Thursday 3rd, Friday 4th, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th October 2024
- Entrance to Ballroom on night specified - From 7.45pm each day
- MC'd Throughout by Marty Morrissey with a whole host of stars
- Prizes to be won
Ticket price €50 per person per night inclusive of Service Fee.
Entertainment Special Guests Schedule:
- Thursday 3rd October - Tommy Fleming
- Friday 4th October - George Murphy
- Saturday 5th October - Liam O'Connor
- Sunday 6th October - Mary Coughlan
Over 2 Hour Show will also include Sharon Shannon (Thursday) Kate Purcell (Thursday and Friday) Onoir ( Saturday) The Galway Tenors.
A percentage of Spain Only ticket sales will also go to the support of Iberia GAA.
Holiday World Polynesia Hotel
Located in Benalmádena, on the Costa del Sol, the hotel has a fabulous ballroom where the Marty Party will take place each evening.
Address:
THE MARTY PARTY ENTERTAINMENT
- Tickets available for Thursday October 3, Friday October 4, Saturday October 5 and Sunday October 6
- Every night the Show is hosted by Marty Morrissey
- Over 2 Hour Show will also include Sharon Shannon (Thursday) Kate Purcell (Thursday and Friday) Onoir ( Saturday) The Galway Tenors
- Thursday October 3; Special Guest Tommy Fleming
- Friday October 4; Special Guest George Murphy
- Saturday October 5; Special Guest; Liam O'Connor
- Sunday October 6; Special Guest; Mary Coughlan
- Doors Open at 7.45pm sharp
- Show begins at 8.30pm sharp
TOMMY FLEMING
65 Million YouTube hits
3.5 Million album sales worldwide
Tommy Fleming has many times been described as the “Voice of Ireland” and is one of Ireland’s top entertainers
Described as a singer whose voice has the remarkable ability of taking you into his world, Tommy is presently working on his newest album which celebrates a staggering 30 years as one of Ireland’s most successful solo artists ever “All These Years” Here is a little taste of what is to come- “Goodbye my old friend”
https://tommyfleming.com/tommys-story/
GEORGE MURPHY
George Murphy is an Irish singer songwriter who hails from the Dublin suburb of Beaumont.
He exploded onto the Irish music scene after his memorable appearances on the RTE Television show “You’re a Star”.
Just out of secondary school at the age of 17 he very quickly took over the Irish music scene. He signed to Sony Ireland and his debut album ‘Dreamed A Dream’ went to No.1 in the Irish charts. The album eventually went on to gain triple Platinum status.
George had made a big impact with insiders on the Irish Music scene, Phil Coulter was quoted as saying that George Is the most exciting vocal find in Ireland, The late Ronnie Drew was quoted saying A voice beyond his years.
Peggy Seeger was quoted saying A very honest approach to the songs, kept them true to their Origin and Hotpress magazine described him at the time as “A serious contender”.
https://georgemurphymusic.com/
LIAM O'CONNOR
From a very young age, I wanted to be a performer,’ says accordion legend and multi-instrumentalist Liam O’Connor. ‘Music is not only in me. It defines who I am.’
Born in Newmarket, Co Cork, Liam O’Connor was raised in a family where music was not just a hobby, but a way of life. Cutting his musical teeth at the tender age of four, Liam excelled early and went on to join the family band, The O’Connor Family, at the age of 10.
‘Music was always in the house,’ he remembers. ‘My Dad used to play the accordion while Mom was the main energy behind us all. When I was very small, I used to watch my father play the accordion and coming from a musical background and a musical area, Sliabh Luachra, there were lots of traditional musicians in the area and Irish music was a big part of our tradition.
‘I come from a family of seven — three brothers and three sisters,’ Liam says. ‘They are all musical, and all played in the family band. We all played records and tapes in the house, and we travelled the country playing in sessions with Comhaltas.
There were many instruments in the house and as a young boy there was ample opportunity to pick up and play almost any musical instrument. Liam plays 20 instruments himself. It was the accordion, the squeezebox, that he settled on and mastered.
As still a very young man, Liam became an All-Ireland champion and won the Beamish & Crawford award for best all-round musician from Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. A precocious talent at a young age Liam was soon mixing his love of the traditional with a unique blend of the contemporary. A creative innovator whose musical style and ability has seen him use elements of Traditional, Blue’s, Jazz and Cajun and Reggae. These distinctions meant that Liam very quickly graduated onto the world stage. But what exactly does that mean?
Well, Liam produced critically acclaimed and best selling records onto the world stage. It means touring the world with Michael Faltely’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. It means producing and then filming his own show and having the resultant DVD be a best seller too and then changing that show and doing it again. It means travelling and playing al over Europe and America, spreading the message. And what is the message? Well, the message is a simple one. It goes something like, ‘My name is Liam O’Connor. This is my music and this is the way I play it’. Because, you see, apart from being a critically-acclaimed and best-selling performer, Liam O’Connor is also an innovator. Liam O’Connor isn’t just playing the music. Liam O’Connor is actively seeking to change the music, pushing it in new and exciting directions, seeking different and more challenging collaborators and constantly reaching for a place the music has never reached before. Why? Why not just get up, play it like it’s always been played, take the easy option, keep life simple? Well, the answer to that is, in its own way, even more simple again. Let’s quote the maestro himself…
‘You don’t own the music. You can’t own the music any more than you can own the air or own the water. The music is lent to us. We only have it for a short time. It’s what you do with it in the time you have it that counts’.
After an early career spent playing and performing to accolades in Ireland with The O’Connor Family, eventually joined by Lisa Aherne on vocals, Liam O’Connor signed a major deal with MCA Universal Music. The first fruit of the new partnership was the release of his debut album, employing the spellbinding vocals of his long-time collaborator Lisa called
The Awakening. The record met with huge critical acclaim and was nominated for an IRMA award. Not least, it also brought him to the attention of Michael Flatley and Ronan Hardiman, composer of the live-performance extravaganza Lord Of The Dance, starring Irish-dancing maverick Michael Flatley. His years of touring with Lord of the Dance influenced Liam in forming and refining his musical and performing style. As a result, Liam O’Connor on record and live is a unique experience. Never a man to be pigeon-holed in a genre, his playing style incorporates elements of classical, jazz, bluegrass, country, reggae as well as traditional Irish. As a result, his performances have and almost spiritual dimension. Is high-intensity performance, musical verve and swagger and his delivery have been compared to a knock-out delivered by a musical heavyweight.
‘I toured the world with Lord of the Dance. It was a dream, to get an opportunity to perform on the world stage with an international star.’
Playing the great venues of the world with some of world music’s finest instrumentalists and keeping such stellar company paid off in more personal ways for Liam, too: over time, he saw that he was ready to create and perform in his own live show, with his own musical vision at the centre.
https://liamoconnormusic.com/bio
MARY COUGHLAN
Mary is Ireland’s greatest jazz and blues singer and “one of our most openly raw performers” (Hotpress). In a career fast approaching its 40th year, she is about to enter its next, exciting stage.
Born in Shantalla, Galway city, Mary has made some of the most uncompromising, wholly personal, and universal music by any Irish artist. While her roots are in jazz and blues - Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith are among her inspirations - pop, rock, folk, and chanson (Edith Piaf is also a touchstone) influences also appear in her work. Now, the next chapter of her distinguished career finds her exploring a little known side of the music of Peggy Lee.
To hear Mary sing, is, as Velvet Thunder said, “to be at the core of the human heart”. It was a voice which first came to wide attention in 1985, when Mary burst onto the Irish music scene with her debut album, Tired and Emotional. That album led to appearances on The Late Late Show, a hit single with ‘Delaney’s Gone Back On The Wine’, and tours of Britain, Germany, and Holland.
She followed that explosive release with Under The Influence (1987), Uncertain Pleasures (1990), and Sentimental Killer (1992), which firmly established her reputation as an unflinchingly honest, emotionally raw vocalist, never afraid to embrace the most difficult of subject matter in her work.
As The Irish News said, she “doesn’t just take her audiences to church with her music, she practically baptises them with her passion and pain”.
It was the same in her 2009 autobiography, Bloody Mary, where she documented addiction problems, relationship troubles, familial abuse, career mismanagement, suicide attempts, and dark days spent confined to psychiatric wards.
Despite the difficulties she encountered, the music kept coming with Live In Galway (1996), After The Fall (1997), Mary Coughlan Sings Billie Holiday (2000), Long Honeymoon (2001), The House Of Ill Repute (2008), best of set, The Whole Affair (2012), released the same year she enjoyed a sold out show at Sydney Opera House, and Live & Kicking (2017).
Mary is also no stranger to the big screen, having appeared in two films by acclaimed Irish director Neil Jordan - 1988’s High Spirits with Peter O Toole, Daryl Hannah, and Donal McCann, and 2005’s Breakfast on Pluto with Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea.
More recently, theatre has become another stage for Mary’s talents. In 2019, her early life was dramatised in Woman Undone, a “profoundly moving, brave, and beautiful fusion of theatre, music, and dance” (Galway Advertiser), created by Mary and the award-winning Irish theatre company Brokentalkers, in collaboration with Icelandic composer Valgeir Sigurdsson, and movement director Eddie Kaye.
Now sober for close to 30 years, the mother of five and grandmother of six, reached new peaks as a performer and songwriter with her most recent album, 2020’s acclaimed Life Stories.
By turns powerful, swaggering, sexy, harrowingly raw, and deeply honest, Life Stories runs the full gamut of both music and emotions, from cabaret (‘High Heel Boots’) to late night jazz balladry (‘Elbow Deep’, ‘No Jericho ) to some of the most exuberant pop oriented songs Mary has yet recorded (‘Forward Bound’, ‘Steps Forward’).
Released via the artist’s own label, Hail Mary Records, it reached No 1 on iTunes and Amazon; garnered five star reviews from Music Republic, Get Ready To Rock, and Musicriot.com. The Sunday Times Ireland said, “rarely has an album referenced a life so pointedly”, while The Daily Mail rightly said it was created by “a consummate talent at the top of her game”.
To cap it all, in 2020, Mary was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the then Mayor of Galway, Mike Cubbard.
Never one to sit still, Mary is now planning her most ambitious project to date. While she has covered Billie Holiday, Joy Division, and The Blue Nile in the past, she intends to reimagine the album Peggy Lee made with the pioneering rock’n’roll songwriters Lieber and Stoller, composers of such songs as ‘Hound Dog’ and ‘Jailhouse Rock’.
The album, Mirrors, described by Allmusic.com as “intelligent, evocative, understated, and mature”, explored themes of murder, madness, despair, longing, and the rise of Fascism in the USA. Mary has been eager to work on this project for many years, but it was during lockdown that the opportunity presented itself. This has led her to work with musicians and visual artists to create what will be an immersive, multimedia, experience.
What a way for Mary to mark her oncoming fifth decade in music.
SHARON SHANNON
Irish President Michael D Higgins called her ‘A National Treasure’ and after 20 of her own albums, countless DVDS, filmed concerts, musical collaborations and a career that has spanned 40 years, Sharon Shannon in 2023 is still breaking new musical ground.
Her career has seen her tour the world through America, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand even to Saudi Arabia and China, headlining some of the biggest global venues from The Kennedy Centre in Washington to London’s Wembley Arena. In the latter half of 2019, Sharon toured extensively across Japan, gathering inspiration for her album, The Reckoning; an amalgamation of cultures and musical influences to create one of Sharon’s most unique and original albums to date.
Sharon continues to redefine and reimagine the boundaries of Irish traditional music, elevating the genre through her experimental collaborations with reggae, rap and classical musicians. Her list of collaborators is as extensive as her musical repertoire. She has recorded and toured with Bono, Willie Nelson, La Bottine Souriante, Shane Mc Gowan, Nigel Kennedy, Steve Earle, Justin Adams, Johnny Depp, Linton Kwesi Johnston,The Waterboys and Dessie O’Halloran, and the RTE Symphony Orchestra to mention just a few.
She has entertained US Presidents Clinton at the White House and Obama in Dublin, and Irish Presidents Robinson and MacAleese on presidential visits to Poland and Australia respectively.
The genre-defying star has achieved multi-platinum album sales and has had several number chart topping albums, singles and DVDs in her home country. Her album Galway Girl went 4 times platinum in Ireland with the title track winning her the Meteor award two years running for the most downloaded song. She also celebrates being the youngest ever recipient of the Meteor Lifetime Achievement Award.
ONOIR
Onóir are a modern Irish male folk group, who sing harmony-focused songs and musical arrangements. Formed in August of 2020, when four individual, Donegal-based musicians; Tom McHugh, Declan Gaughan, Deane Connaghan, and Diarmaid McGee, joined forces to create a contemporary version of the famous Irish folk ballad; “The Auld Triangle”.
Onóir are currently touring their brand new theatre show across Ireland, the UK, and Europe, and are also on tour in The USA during the month of August 2024. Their self-titled, debut album was released on March 3rd 2024 and is available to purchase via their Bandcamp page.
GAELIC GAMES IBERIA
The establishment of strong, healthy, and local GAA clubs on the Iberian peninsula (including Gibraltar and Portugal) with a view to growing these clubs and integrating into the local community while continuing to establish more clubs in localities.
Our clubs will follow the aims of the GAA in Ireland and ensure that all the members are included in sports, community projects, fundraising, development, or any other activity without prejudice of race, religion, or creed.
With this established and maintained we will aim to offer a much broader and extensive experience for the Erasmus project which will undoubtedly benefit from these strong local units.
The fair and proper involvement in the decision-making process with responsibility, deadlines, understanding, and acceptance of results discussed.
Proper and regular communication with clubs, players, and volunteers regarding decisions and results.
Outreach to local communities in small but incremental amounts to gradually grow our presence and ensure healthy and appropriate inclusion in local communities to learn from them and to also show them the positives of our culture.
BOOKING PROCESS
Tickets are sold per day and must be paid in full at time of booking. These tickets are only available to residents of Spain and a Spanish registered address must be provided at time of booking. Passport Numbers must be provided at time of booking and must be presentable on arrival to the venue (this can be in the form of a photocopy or photo of your passport. For Terms and Conditions Click Here
