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Concert News. Donnie Munro has announced a couple of dates for 2006. The first is 27th May in East Kilbride. Donnie will be appearing as part of the Artburst Festival. The venue will be the stage in Hunter Street located in what is known as the Old Village in East Kilbride. He is due to be on stage around 9pm - 10pm. No tickets are needed - it is a free event. The next date announced is the 3rd August where Donnie will perform on the opening night of the Speyfest Music Festival. More details can be found on the Speyfest website www.speyfest.org. There is also another concert on the 4th August in Inverness. More detials on that date when it is confirmed. We will bring you more concert news as we get it. Donnie Munro and Friends DVD release. River Records have released a new DVD entitled Donnie Munro and Friends. The DVD is from a Scottish Television show which was show on Burns Night 2000, and featured Donnie Munro and his band as well as many of his friends joining him on stage. Featuring a mixture songs written by Burns, some of his own work and a couple of old favourites from his Runrig days. Celtic Connection Concert on Radio Scotland. The Celtic Connections Concert on Friday 20th January, 2006 was recorded by BBC Scotland as part of the Travelling Folk radio show, and you will be able to listen to the concert by visiting the Radio Scotland website and clicking on Listen Again, then select the Travelling Folk show for Sunday 22nd January, 2006. Donnie announces new record label deal. Donnie made an announcement whilst on stage at the Celtic Connection concert that he has signed a deal with Scottish based record label Greentrax Recordings. Donnie is currently working on a brand new album at Chris Harley's studio on Skye, and it will hopefully be released later in the year. At present the album is scheduled to be released on the 1st July, 2006. Website's messageboard members goes fundraising. This website has a very active messageboard community (Donnie Munro Messageboard), and for 2006 the fans will be raising funds throughout the year for the two charities for which Donnie is patron of. The campaign will be called Don8 and will use a logo designed by one of the fans themselves. The two charities they hope to support are The Highland Society for the Blind and secondly the project Mypas for which Donnie has recently become a patron for. We welcome all ideas, suggestions, donations and gifts on what will hopefully be a successful 2006. Celtic Connections 2006. Donnie will be performing ay Celtic Connections 2006 at two events. The first is on Monday 16th January as part of the Scottish Men concert where Donnie will sing two songs. This is followed on the Friday 20th January by a full Headlining concert featuring Donnie Munro and his band at the Fruitmarket. |