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What people have said....
Just a couple of quotes from mail received at Sahara Music regarding the Sahara Live @ The Malthouse concert and CelticTV webcast "Brilliant!", "Just wanted to tell you how great I thought that performance was. It went out over the internet like a major concert..."
Performances
Sahara perform in theatres, town halls, historic houses, hotels, wineries, restaurants, Sports and Social Clubs, private and corporate events, a variety of festivals, live TV appearances and live to air radio performances.
Sahara's festival performances include: Mornington Park Australia Day Festival, Out of the Woodwork Festival Rouse Hill Estate Sydney, Shepparton Arts Festival, Castlemaine State Festival, Bicentennial Travelling Exhibition Traralgon, Griffith Festival of Flowers, National Celtic Folk Festival Geelong, Kyneton Daffodil Festival, Maroondah Festival, Bayside Fiesta Sandringham, Irish Woolfest Boorowa, Festival of Forest, Folk & Flowers Mallacoota, Melbourne Fringe Festival, International Comedy Festival Club Melbourne Town Hall.
Sahara Live to Air Radio performances include: ABC 3LO Melbourne, ABC Sydney, ABC Adelaide, ABC Newcastle, ABC Sunshine Coast, ABC Goldcoast, ABC Riverina, ABC New England, ABC Rockhampton, ABC Goulburn-Murray, ABC Wide Bay, ABC Northern Tasmania, ABC Goldfields, various community & commercial radio stations.
Sahara TV performances include: 'Davis at Large' Derek Davis RTE, 'New Faces' Daryl Somers TV 9, 'Good Morning Australia' Bert Newton TV 10 , 'IMT' Denise Drysdale & Ernie Sigley TV 9, ABC TV 'National Evening News' Ian Henderson, 'Good Friday Appeal' introduced by John Wood TV7, 'AM Adelaide' TV7.
Hailing from Dublin this award winning multi-instrumental duo write original songs that are contemporary and eclectic with a hint of Irish.
Dave and Trish Long have collaborated as songwriters since they joined forces in Ireland back in 1984. With so many years working together musically their songwriting skills have combined to such an extent that their compositions are seamless and none can tell one's writing from the other. Audiences at live shows have commented on how in tune they are with each other - it has to be seen to be believed. This rare unity comes across in their recordings and can be noted in particular with the harmonious blending of their vocals.
Over the years their music has become subtly different, a marriage of sounds and influences between the Northern and the Southern hemispheres 'the mist meeting the haze'. The resulting music has light, bright tones intertwined with the rich, earthy moodiness of their Celtic sound. Lyrics stretch from uplifting songs with themes of hope and love to songs that draw awareness to what is happening in the world in which we live. The instrumentation includes vocals, flageolet, guitar, sax, flute, recorder and sequencing
Sahara's success has been soaring internationally since the release of their 'Vision' and 'Live at the Malthouse' CDs which have both received critical acclaim and a rating of three and a half stars in major publications. Over the last few years Sahara has been on tour bringing their now recognizable and unique sound around Australia. On the way they have discovered that their show and music have a very broad appeal and this has brought Trish and Dave back into the studio to record the songs that have been inspired while on the road. The result is Sahara's latest CD entitled 'A New Beginning'. Some of the songs on this CD have been influenced by the major global events of recent years which have been confronting and thought provoking. However we remain forever hopeful; whenever there is change there is a chance for a new beginning. This CD has been released on the Sahara Music Record Label and is available for purchase at Sahara's shows and also from the 'online store' on this website.
Some of Sahara’s exciting success stories to date….
Sahara makes history with Two No.1 hits on the First Internet Charts 'Make My Day' voted No.1 for 4 weeks running followed by 'Ordinary Day' both tracks off the Sahara 'Vision' CD. Soundclick was an international music chart where people could vote for their favourite acts thus making Sahara's No.1's a 'people's choice' award. Today we are now more familiar with this kind of voting system due to televised shows like 'Idol' etc.
Dave and Trish were dubbed 'Cyber Stars' when interviewed for the ABC TV Evening News regarding this success.
Sahara composed the original music for an ABC TV Australian Story documentary' Track Winding Back' which received the United Nations Media Award.
Due to popular demand the video of Sahara's concert at the Melbourne Malthouse concert has been webcast on several occasions on the CelticTV website.
Currently Trish and Dave are back in the studio working on their forthcoming CD full of new material
Sahara's Music promoting Ireland overseas!
Sahara provides music for an international travel promotion for IRLEXOTIC which is currently being played in over 300 BlockBuster outlets throughout Mexico.
Sahara's 'Celtic Love Poem' from their 'Live @ The Malthouse CD' was featured on Radio Cultural Ayuntamiento 105.9FM Cancun.
