A DVD from the Dutch Irish Unplugged Tour in February 2003 has just been released. On this DVD, Frances sings 7 songs, including the never before released (by Frances) song Over The Rainbow.

The DTS audio track of this DVD is supurb (the DVD also contains a standard stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 track). The DVD is not region encoded and the video format is 16x9 anamorphic widescreen in the NTSC format (which is the US video format, but almost every DVD player in other countries can automatically convert this format).

Frances has been on the radio in the Netherlands last Saturday in the program Cappucino. She talked about how she started in the Black Family and her tour in the Netherlands. She also sang "How High The Moon". You can listen to this radio show with RealPlayer via this link. Frances is in the program at about 2 hours, 39 minutes and 50 seconds.

Frances' son Eoghan Scott, who is also plays the bass guitar in Frances' band, has been part of a project called "10 Summer Nights". This was a series of ten concerts that was held in The Annesley House in Dublin in July 2004, to celebrate the first anniversary of the venue .The series featured some of the amazing artists that have played there during its first year as a live music venue. The complete line up for the series was:

• CALIBAN
• SONNY CONDELL & BAND
• WALLY PAGE,JOHNNY MULHERN & BAND
• CHIARA BROWNE & THE ROSE PONIES
• BIGWIG
• THE PALE
• EARTHQUAKE HAIR
• HORN OF PLENTY
• Q
• EOGHAN SCOTT

Each concert was recorded for a compilation CD & DVD of the series, which was released in November 2004,called “10 SUMMER NIGHTS (in Dublin)”.

All proceeds from the sale of the CD/DVD will go to the BRAINWAVE charity, the Irish Epilepsy Association. More information about this CD/DVD and the Brainwave charity can be found on http://www.10sn.info

Frances will be appearing at one of Ireland's largest and most prestigious venues, the National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2 on February 8th 2005. This concert, called the CLASAC Concert 2005, is an annual event organised by the Clontarf Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and the first half features 100 Irish singers, dancers and musicians aged between 9 and 18 years. The second half features a well-known Irish act (previous artistes have included Jimmy McCarthy, Altan and Maighread and Triona Ni Dhomhnaill) and this year it is Frances!

The concert is to raise funds for the CLASAC building, one of the largest and most comprehensive Irish Traditional Arts projects in Dublin. Clasac will serve the needs of Dublin Northside branches of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann while providing an outreach service to bring Traditional music into the schools and the communities of North Dublin and in particular the inner city.

For ticket info, see the concert page.