Maurice and Jane attend the Traditional Singing Weekend at Cullerlie.

Jane and Maurice present the life and times of Thomas Russell in words and music at The John Hewitt Summer School. 7pm The Market Place Theatre, Armagh Tickets £9 www.marketplacearmagh.com Box Office Tel: 028 3752 1821 Mon-Sat 9.30-4.30

Reclaiming the Enlightenment are CELEBRATING BASTILLE DAY Saturday 14 July, 2.00pm to 5.00pm First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary Street, Belfast Kevin Whelan, ‘”The Athens of the North”: The Enlightenment, France and Belfast.’ + songs from Jane Cassidy and Maurice Leyden. Whelan is the Michael Smurfit Director of the Keogh Naughton Notre Dame Centre in Dublin. He has written or edited 15 books on Irish history and geography and helped transform our understanding of our decade of revolution in the 1790’s, and notably in his, Fellowship of Freedom; The United Irishmen and the 1798 Rebellion. The Belfast town debates of 1792 – contesting the issues of equal citizenship. A dramatised reading with Paula McFetridge and Vincent Higgins Price; £5.00

The Sunflower Folk Club presents Maurice Leyden singing with his past pupils, celebrating 10 years teaching traditional singing at Belfast Trad. Thursday 28th June. Singing from 9.00-11.00pm. Doors open 8.30pm

Maurice and Jane recorded 5 songs with Donal O’Connor, at Red Box Studios Belfast as part of an album of songs from the repertoire of the great Co. Antrim tradional singer, Robert Cinnamond, which will be released in the Autumn of 2018. The Co. Down traditional singer Roisin White is leading the project and will be featured on the album, along with Len Graham, Meabh Meir and Jennifer Orr.

Join Maurice Leyden and Jane Cassidy as they tell the story of this remarkable man, through eye-witness accounts of his life, extracts from Russell’s diary and traditional songs. This is part of a series of events marking the 230th anniversary of the founding of the Linen Hall Library in 1788, of which Thomas Russell was the very first Librarian. https://linenhall.cloudvenue.co.uk/home?cat=eventtickets

Jane, together with singer Kate Barry, is organising a concert in The American Bar, Belfast on Sat 9th June as part of an island-wide Fair Plé Day. Lots of local female trad and folk artists will be taking to the stage, including the wonderful fiddle-player Nollaig Casey. www.fairple.com