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Traditional music represents a departure
Dervish for Ireland 2007!
Dervish have released ten CDs over a nearly 20 year career. They are among the most well-respected traditional music groups in Ireland and among the Irish diaspora. Currently on tour in the US, Dervish will also be performing in continental Europe before returning home for Christmas.
Similar to last year, songwriters will have until 8 January 2007 to submit a 3 minute original song for consideration. The "final four" songs will be performed on 16th February 2007 on The late late show, with the public selecting its favourite via a televote.
Kevin Linehan, Commissioning Editor, Entertainment Programmes, RTÉ Television, said "With the Eurovision now an increasingly complex and competitive competition, RTÉ feels that Dervish's proven experience of delivering exciting performances to mass live audiences around the world makes them an exciting proposition for the Eurovision stage. We look forward to finding the best song for Dervish to take to Finland in 2007."
Shane Mitchell of Dervish said on RTE's website: "We are honoured to accept RTÉ's invitation to represent Ireland at Eurovision 2007 and look forward to raising the roof of the Areena in Helsinki."
Thanks to Brian Kennedy's 10th place finish with Every song is a cry for love Ireland is directly qualified for the final of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. Ireland has previously won the contest in 1970, 1980, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1996 - the most wins by any participating country.
To see a performance by Dervish from the Festival Sons do Atlantico in 2005, click the 'play icon' below.
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Hi guys, well, as a pro musician from the west of ireland myself, I think I was extremely surprised to hear Dervish were the group chosen to represent our country. I would have thought that there were far more entertaining trad outfits out there if that was what we were looking for, and quite honestly my main reason for saying so is this. While they are a good trad band , they are certainly not world class or indeed even euro class, and their vocalist is one of the few singers I know of, who is capable of singing a song from start to finsh in a key that is at least a half-tone flat , or indeed sometimes sharp, to what the instruments are playing. That would be my main worry for Dervish, and not so much their musicianship. Its all about the song and the singer on the night and I'm afraid that Cathy Jordan is lacking in that regard and while she can sing certain old style, Sean nos songs, reasonably well she has also been known to murder quality songs , and is certainly not a versitile vocalist for the bigger stage of europe. Just my humble opinion !!
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