Some more news

After having some peaceful holidays his family and friends in the beauty of God´s Creation,
Paddy is glad to hit the road again with his band for the upcoming events of the EUROSARIUM TOUR. Which will take him back to Gibraltar, on to Madrid for the World Youth Days in the month of August, in September for the occasion of the Pope´s visit to Germany.

Other events are being planned in the moment, but he has some exciting news to announce:
"I especially look forward to singing on stage again - after all these years - with Patricia,
Kathy, Paul and Joey this December for a tour called, “Stille Nacht” (Silent Night), a musical Christmas story." In a mixture of music and scenic performances, “Stille Nacht” is a journey on the search for the true meaning of Christmas, bringing us back to values such as family, friendship, love and reflection on key moments in our personal history, all the way back to the very first Christmas celebrated in the crib of Bethlehem over 2000 years ago. The program will include well known Christmas songs along with a number of the Kelly Family hits such as, “An Angel”, “Mama” and others. Paddy: "I´m glad we´ve also been able to bring in an aspect of charity to this tour as well, I won´t say more for now." You can already find the dates and places, as well as the exclusive presale tickets this 28th and 29th of July, which you can only purchase through my homepage by clicking this

TICKET LINK
and fill in the password: "2011"

Here are the EUROSARIUM TOUR infos:
11.08.2011 Gibraltar
17th of August, 2011 Madrid with the Community with St. John
18th of August, 2011 Madrid

Wishing you a blessed summer!

The people of Kosovo thank Paddy for the song "Children of Kosovo" and call him "A man with a big heart."

There was a whole Facebook "buzz" preceding his coming to Kosovo, to hold an evening of music, testimony and prayer in the Parish of Velehz, Prizren. In thanksgiving for what he did with his family for them in 1999, some youth performed a mimed choregraphy to the song -which brought many to tears- at the event held in Velezh, which was attended by far off visitors from Switzerland, Poland and Slovenia in adition to the many Kosovoalbanians present on the eve of May 14th.

Father Don Marjan who invited Paddy and organised his pilgrimage to the origins of Bl. Mother Teresa in the days that followed, was moved to tears in his openeing words of welcome, thanking him for having helped the people of Kosovo "...when we were in our worst situation."

Numerous were those to express their gratitude during Paddy's first visit to Kosovo in May this year for the song "Children of Kosovo" which he wrote and completed with his family back in 1999, in view of helping the impoverished during the war, calling him "A man with a big heart." Former Minister of Culture Valton Begiri and the Bishop of Prizren Don Lush Gjergji personally thanked him for the aid which was brought to the poeple of Kosovo through the song which was released as a charity CD in conjunction with UNICEF, 12 years ago.
Young theater director Bekim Lumi spontaneously gathered his team of actors and associates and offered Paddy an unplanned performance of his piece "The Blood Shirt" at the Ethnological Museum in Pristina to thank Paddy as well.

Among the various media coverage during his visit was an interivew with KTV which you can view here :

Paddy was particularily happy to have met Father Don Lush Gjergji who was a close friend of Bl. Mother Teresa over 30 years, guiding him to the various places of her origins, including Skopje in Macedonia, during his stay.

Paddy, "It has been a true blessing to visit this country and come to know such a heartfelt people with their history and culture. I was particularily moved by the Christian minority from whom the invitation came, and glad to see a peaceful co-existence between Muslims and Christians here. I was very pleased to discover the Albanian origins of Bl. Mother Teresa and the roots of her vocation in the faith of her family. I feel like I have recieved more than I have given and hope to come back again at another oppurtune occasion."

Two new events with Paddy

After his comeback performance at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on the 25th March, and his participation in the March for life in Brussels two days later, Paddy will persue his EUROSARIUM TOUR in the upcoming months throughout Europe with events in:

• Gibraltar on May 7th at St. Theresa´s Church at 5pm
• Kosovo, Velezh in Prizren on May 14th

Also planned are performances in Germany, Poland and Madrid during the World Youth Days on the 17th August together with the Community of Saint John.

CD "In Exile"

Paddy´s debut solo CD "In Exile" is now available again. The much wanted classic with songs such as, "Pray Pray Pray", "Money Making Machine", "Thanking Blessed Mary" or "Rain of Roses", which knew it´s first release in 2003, is available in a limited quantity until a new release is printed.

Sold out in the moment. Soon available again under Aeskimo.eu.

Paddy´s new song "Unknown You" now available as a free download until March 25th.

Paddy just finished recording his latest composition "Unknown You", which is a hymn the Pontifical Counsel for Culture (the Vatican) asked him to write for a project called the "Court of the Gentiles".

The "Court of the Gentiles" is a new platform Pope Benedict XVI sugested for a dialogue between believers and non-believers (see www.parvisdesgentils.fr or www.atriumgentium.org) for which the first of a series of events throughout the world will be taking place in Paris on March 24th and 25th.

Paddy: "It was great to work on this project with musicians and people who partly consider themselves non-believers, and others, who are of the Christian and Moslem faith. It was a fruitful experience and dialogue at an other language than the intellectual one, namely; the often more mysterious language of art. I am particularly happy that my brothers of the Community of St. John joined in on the recording session in studio with their singing, and that they will be part of the band at the event on the 25th of March at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.This experience has brought me closer to the Unknown Genius behind it all, and I hope this song will have the same effect upon others too."

For those who want to watch Paddy´s performance on the 25th March via TV or internet, follow the direct transmission of the event with KTO TV or www.ktotv.com from about 19h30 onwards until his last intervention at around 22h55.

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Paddy Kelly´s first public performance at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

After almost a year of public silence, Paddy will be holding his first official performance at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on the eve of the 25th of March 2011. This live event will launch a series of upcoming appearances in diverse Cathedrals and festivals planned throughout Europe this year.

Along with the other artists and interventions which are to take place outside on the square and inside the Notre Dame Cathedral, there will be a screened transmission from Rome in which Pope Benedict XVI, adressing the expected 8.000 young people, will answer the questions of a few chosen representatives during this festive event, which is to gather believers and non-believers in a dialogue on subjects as to the existence of God, faith and atheism, good and evil, life and death, the truth and lies, beauty and love.

Paddy was asked by the Pontifical Counsel for Culture -which is a department of the Vatican- to write and sing a Hymn for this project called, "The Court of the Gentiles" which is a new platform the Pope suggested over a year ago, for a constructive dialogue between believers and non-believers.

Paddy : "I am very grateful to have been considered for this project. I have often had postive conversations with persons for whom God is the Unkown, and I believe that this can be an enrichening moment for us so called "believers", who need to put ourselves in question to which extent we actually know the God we believe in. I see it as a privilige to have been asked to put my art at service of such a cause, for true art is a royal means for the elevation of our hearts and minds to the spheres of the Unknown, to expirience what Albert Einstein said to be the highest of wisdoms, the most beautiful emotion; the mystical emotion."

For more information on "The Court of Gentiles" go to www.parvisdegentils.fr

Greetings and blessings!

Welcome to the new official Paddy Kelly website which is now on-line and still in construction. Here you will find the latest official news concerning him and his upcoming activities.

After living six years as a monk in the Community of Saint John, Paddy Kelly has recently left religious life. Arriving at the term of his temporal vows, he decided to go back into the world and put his music in service of his faith, all whilst remaining bound to the religious congregation.

Here a few words of Paddy:

"These last 6 years have been the most extraordinary time of my life. I am so grateful to God, to Fr. Marie Dominique Philippe and my brothers of the Community of Saint John for this profound encounter with Jesus and experience of His love. Saint John wrote, "God is love" (1 Jn 4:8) and this is truly what I was given to see during this precious period in which I received so many graces. With the words of Mary, I can but say, "The Almighty has done great things for me, holy is His name!" (Lk 1:49). I’m happy He brought me thus far and confident in what is still to come."

Paddy Kelly entered the novitiate house in France in 2004 and received the religious habit and name Brother John Paul Mary 8 months later. He pronounced and absolved the time of his temporal vows, the four years of philosophical studies and first year of theology and accomplished apostolic activities with his music and testimony all over Europe. He is now finishing some of the new music he had already begun to compose as a brother, and is working on some projects he plans to realize in the near future.

To be continued.