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SPECIAL ISSUE: Fiona Flynn

TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome! The wait for the special issue featuring Fiona Flynn is over. Inside this magazine get the latest scoop on Fiona’s latest tour: Tour Amour. Collect tips and tricks on becoming a rock star, a fashionista, and a cosmetics guru. Also check out the exclusive interview with Fiona Flynn.

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Fiona Flynn’s Interview  

  

During the making of this issue, Fiona Flynn was so gracious to accept an interview with the Ceolta Magazine team. She offered the team insight on the true feelings of musicians and their views. Learn what inspires these great musicians to stand where they are today.  

 

Q: What inspired you to start singing? A: My mother enjoyed singing but because the circumstances she was put in, she was forced to quit her professional career. She always sang to me as a little girl and I remember pretending to be asleep so she would sing to me! Silly, right?  

Q: How did you discover your talents? A: When I was a kid, I used to sing along to all the cartoon theme songs, and one day my grandpa told me I had an amazing gift! My mother gave me some lessons, and I tried out for the X Factor. After I didn't make it, my uncle who works at Chimes of Ireland Records helped me. After we made some tracks and produced some stuff, people started to take an interest in me.   Q: Do you have any role models in the music industry? A: Well, my mother has had a huge impact on my career. Apart from her, I find The Beatles as a legend to look up to. Their style spread all around the globe; it’s amazing what an influence a band can be! They made the music industry augment with their new styles. I don’t know one person who has never heard of The Beatles! I hope to make a similar impact on our generation.   

 

Q: And how do you think you can make such an impact? A: My team and I have been very successful in choosing out tour and concert locations. We chose out the most populated and central venues for our events. All of our crowds and audiences were well into my style. I also tried to incorporate other musical influences that are popular right now into my own. I hope I can become multicultural having traditional and modern takes on the world. I think I am still sort of bereft on what I need to do.  

Q: Traveling can make everyone homesick; how did you cope?  A: Well, I like to think of my tour bus as my new home, and I like to fill it with all sorts of souvenirs from everywhere I've been, it really makes me feel closer to my audience and fans. I do have a four leaf clover hanging on the wall though!  

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Fiona Flynn’s Interview  

  

Q: What places are the most different from here in Ireland?  A: On my USA tour of 2009, I visited a place in Pennsylvania near a very distinct local culture called the Amish. They have no technology and no electricity. Obviously that is very different from here! They don’t have any cars, they ride horses, and they make furniture for money. Yes, that was very different!   

Q: Did the Amish appreciate your musical style? A: I don’t think I interested them too much. I visited their neighborhood to promote my concert; however, I was informed that my music threatens their culture. I was simply given a plain and stolid response. I suppose they simply meant that they didn’t want to lose their original way of life. I guess they thought I was trying to adulterate their culture or something!  

 

Q: What trends have you picked up from your travel? A: Bright colors are so internationally hot right now. On my tour in India, I saw some precious sarees, which is what Indian women wear; I brought along a colorful set of scarves to wear wherever I travel! I also have more makeup and fashionable tops from all around the world. It’s amazing how much globalization affects everyone in the world. I feel like a connection between all the places I travel. What happens in one place truly affects another.  

Q: Fiona, thank you for your time. When will your next tour start? A: You are most welcome! My next tour starts next year in 2013; I will be traveling out to Asian mega cities like Beijing. I can’t wait! 

 

Fiona Flynn’s Interview

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The Making of Tour Amour

iona Flynn is an international music

sensation. Her famous Tour Amour goes

from New York to exotic places like

Morocco and Kenya. As said by Fiona,

“There is a lot more to touring than just

putting your finger on a map and saying

‘let’s go there’! Studying culture and the

hierarchical dispersion of culture has to do

with a lot of it.” Fiona holds a valued point

in saying that the study of culture and its

dispersion is a key to success when touring.

Musicians find it impossible to stride for

success unwarily; everything must be

strategic. Although not all of Fiona’s tours

went as planned, she dealt with tough

issues with fortitude.

“There is a lot more

to touring then just

putting your finger in

a map and saying

‘let’s go there’!”

Geographers are always looking for

connections between what is happening

and why. This can be thought of as a field

of inquiry. The questions are limitless; and

the more answers that are found, the more

interconnected everything seems. Tour

groups often use geographical findings to

advance their opportunities. Concepts that

geographers have come across include

hierarchical diffusion, distance decay, and

cultural landscape. Hierarchical dispersion

is a form of diffusion in which an idea or

innovation spreads by passing first among

the most connected places or peoples. You

can see how studying this can help deploy a

tour. A tour like Tour Amour could very

much go through the process of

hierarchical dispersion, starting in the

more populous hearth-like cities. Trends

move from hearths to places they go well

noticed and heard of. In the case of pop

music, the “hierarchy” is teenagers. In

today’s society, teenagers play a crucial role

in what’s popular and what’s not. Teens

have very pliable, tentative minds which

contribute to the rapidly changing fads.

One day, listening to classical rock may be

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The Making of Tour Amour

in the norm. The next day, listening to

classical rock might be preposterous!

Fiona Flynn’s style of music is

considered a “pop” genre; for it to be

successful, tour locations must be central

hearths. Fiona is pop culture, and little local

culture areas are probably not going to

know as much about her as the hearth-like

areas are. Distance decay is another factor

Fiona says affects her tour. “The more away

from hearths places are, the less they are

adulterated by popular culture. That puts

limitations on places where we can tour.”

Common locations for music tours in the

“pop” genre include New York, Atlanta,

and London. Record companies do more

elaborate studies on how to produce “the

next big thing”. A common way musicians

like Fiona gain popularity is by performing

on channels such as MTV. Geographer

Clayton Rosati did such a

study to emphasize the

role of MTV on popular

culture. Rosati’s results

showed that “MTV’s

incorporation of rap music and Hip Hop

expressive forms into its production in

1997 helped produce music celebrities”.

(De Blij, 2007, pg. 113)

The pull between globalized popular

culture and local culture can be seen in the

cultural landscape which is another factor

or strategy that is used. Fiona likes to think

of herself as bringing people together, and

looking at the cultural landscape can

ensure a successful tour. However, not all

people are open to this assimilation. Others

view homogeneity between all countries

and various ethnicities as a gibe. Local

cultures often credit their music as a

distinctive characteristic that is a part of

their customs. When international

influences breeze into local cultures, new

eras begin. According to geographer

Edward Relph, “Placelessness is a word to

describe the loss of uniqueness of place in

the cultural landscape so that one place

looks like the next.” (De Blij, 2007, pg.

117) This example relates to not just

physical landscapes, but to cultural

interests as well.

As noted in Human Geography People,

Place, and Culture (page 11) “The five

themes of geography are location, human-

environment interactions, region, place,

and movement.” These themes are the

verbatim points that make up Tour Amour,

and what make it an international

accomplishment. The location of where the

concerts are placed is vital, and the way

people interact with the concerts (EX:

buying tickets or not going) is

indispensable for the tour. Region comes

into play since there is no way Tour Amour

can go places that are not in the “pop-

culture” region, thus they must stay there.

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The Making of Tour Amour

Fiona mentions that while studying the

different regions, she had to pay attention

to perceptual regions, such as the

generalized area considered the “South” of

North America. On a smaller scale, Fiona

looked at functional regions such as Atlanta

and its suburbs. All the places on the earth

are unique and bring certain likings and

values to the tour. Finally, movement is the

third “theme”. How is she supposed to have

a concert when no one can come to it?

When all these factors come together, it

becomes obvious why certain musicians

gain more popularity than others.

Musicians truly must plan out their

steps on how to get to where they need to

be. However, not all musicians follow the

same path Fiona did; some gain popularity

through the Internet.

The last things that make up her

tour strategy are GPS, maps, and GIS. These

things all either tell Fiona and her crew

where they’re going, or show them how to

get there. Geographical Information

Systems layers the information unlike the

others but they all have the same goal.

Mapping out data keeps the team

organized. The complete Tour Amour map

comes together to show the associations of

place and diffusion. Using these opulent

technological advances, Fiona’s team can

put together pinpoints and facts about how

to travel. Without GIS, the team would not

know which areas in Ireland are most

populated, and differentiate between the

places in Ireland in which the population is

mostly youth.

On the next few pages, there are maps

of Fiona Flynn’s Tour Amour locations.

Comparing them to population dot maps,

there is a clear correlation between youth

population and event venues. Fiona’s team

of experts was very ambidextrous at

collecting as much information as they

could. They gathered information from

census data to determine population sizes.

Every single detail of Fiona’s tour was

thought out on different scales. First, the

team chose out the most populated

countries. Then, Fiona personally studied

each country to find the most populated

region. Within the region, further studies

were made to find the demographics of the

densest populations.

Tour Amour has multifarious

subjects that make it pop, but somehow

they all harmonize to bring us the complex

musical beauty that is Tour Amour.

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OLD IRISH

TUNES Home to Hundreds of Irish

Instruments

Bodhran~flute~harp~fiddle~tin whistle

guitar~uilleann pipes~bagpipes~banjo~

bouzoukis~piano~accordion~mandolin~

concertina~ harmonica~ Irish warpipes~

chrotta~pastoral pipes~dord

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Cultural Background of Fiona Flynn

Everybody knows about Fiona

Flynn’s fame around the world, but not

everybody knows how she got

there. The authenticity of Fiona’s

style is what truly brought her

international attention. Her

musical taste satisfies her Irish

background as well as the latest

obsession of hip hop and

pop. Here in Ireland, fast and

upbeat fiddle rhythms make up most of the

folk culture. On the other hand, the youth of

Ireland enjoys the new music technology

and instruments brought in by other

international influences. Will the traditional

Irish music be worn out by the assimilation

of the new popular culture trends?

Fiona was thirteen when

she decided she was going to be

a singer. Because her parents

owned a traditional Irish pub,

she grew up listening to Irish

folk music when it was being

performed there. Fiona wasn’t

the average Irish teenager. While other

teenagers were listening to pop and

absorbing the western culture, Fiona stayed

true to her culture and practiced her flute

and fiddle. As she became a better musician,

her parents let her perform at the pub. It only

took a week for a music producer to notice

her and for her dreams to come true.

Even though Fiona’s style of music

was traditional Irish folk music, it

didn’t take long for her to change

her style after she got

discovered. According to

Encyclopedia Britannica (2012),

“Dublin had undergone

modernization”. Dublin had gone

through regionalization as well as

modernization, because there were common

traits in Dublin that were making it a region

rather than just a city. What made Dublin its

own region were the modern influences that

separated it from the rest of Ireland.

Consequently, Fiona was surrounded by

urban influences, and it was hard for her to

not to change her

culture through

acculturation. As a

result, Fiona’s music

had influences of pop.

In spite of the pop

influences in Fiona’s

music, her music was primarily Irish folk

music. Therefore, people in Ireland were her

biggest fans. Her location played a major

part of her fan-base, because she lived in a

place where her music was already popular.

After Fiona Flynn got discovered,

her popularity was rapidly diffusing.

THE SILVER BEAR

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Cultural Background of Fiona Flynn

According to David Harvey, a famous

geographer, called the diffusion of culture,

similar to Fiona’s growing popularity, the

“time-space compression” model. Harvey

explained that culture diffuses between

countries that are more interlinked through

transportation and communication, rather

than how far apart they are. Fiona’s

popularity spread the same way;

Fiona became more popular in

countries that were more

connected and interlinked

with Ireland. Furthermore,

Fiona had several culture

traits that were diffusing. For

example, her fiddle, unique

music, and the four-leaf

clover necklace she wears

around her neck every day are culture

traits. When Fiona traveled to different

countries on her world tour her international

fans were exposed to her culture traits. They

loved her necklace and fiddle, but

pop music was diffusing faster than

Irish folk music. So, Fiona wanted

to change her music style and play

primarily pop music influenced by

Irish folk music. As a result, Fiona

was losing part of her culture (Irish

folk music) and was going through

assimilation. Assimilation is when

people lose some of their culture

traits. Although Fiona wasn’t

playing pure Irish folk music, she was

representing her Irish culture and proudly

exposing it to the rest of the world.

Time Compression Model by David

Harvey.

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Top 100 Songs Around the World:

Irish Popularity

Some Nights

By: Fun We Are Never Ever

Getting

Back Together

By: Taylor Swift

Good Time By: Owl City

and Carly Rae Jepsen

Blow Me(One Last Kiss)

By: Pink Whistle By: Flo Rida

Payphone By: Maroon

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Wide

Awake

By: Katy

Perry

Call Me Maybe By: Carly Rae

Jepsen

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A common nail polish

trend would be bright

metallic! All the rage in

India and is rocked by

celebs everywhere! Not

only are regular metallic

cute but colorful metallic

are all the international

rage!

#trending

#metallic

We asked Fiona how her skin looked so

beautiful, and her secret… Cerave! The

hottest skin care product in the U.S.!

Her Addiction? M.A.C. eye shadow in

bright tropical colors! She told us that she

saw it trending in the nightlife of India

#trending

Fiona’s internationally inspired

look

Red Lipstick is

Fiona’s Favorite

statement piece!

Inspired from the

streets of London

Fiona rocks this at

all her major

premieres!

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Population Map (Each dot represents

approximately 250,000)

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Population Map

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Originally written by Sonny Knowles

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The diffusion of

clothing trends is inspired

by the bright colors and

unique looks from around

the world. Fashion

designers are incorporating

trends seen in other

countries and making

fashion lines that are seen

on the runway today.

Modern necklaces found in

the fashion world today are

inspired by the big beads

used in African necklaces.

The ruffles shown in

traditional Latin dresses are

also coming into trend,

mainly seen in prom

dresses. A pop star that

rocks the latest fashion

trends is the famous Fiona

Flynn. She came from the

Around the world,

traditional clothing is the

inspiration for top fashion

designers into creating the

latest trends

city of Dublin and

had a very casual

wardrobe. While

touring around the

world, the fashion

trends influenced her

wardrobe, and now

Fiona leaves mouths

gaping wherever she

goes.

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