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Future Uncertain For Wicklow Label

By Nigel Williamson, London
Publication: Billboard
Date: Wednesday, June 14 2000
Releases on Wicklow, the New York-based label operated jointly by BMG Entertainment and Chieftains leader Paddy Moloney, are on hold. The move follows the folding of BMG Classics worldwide -- which had handled Wicklow titles -- into the new RCA Music Group.

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acts have received a fax from Moloney and label executives Steve Macklam and Sam Feldman, partners in Vancouver-based Mind Over Management, which handles the Chieftains. The fax says, "All label-related plans for recording, touring, and releasing must now be considered in question or on hold."

Wicklow acts include Nova Scotia's Mary Jane Lamond, Irish group Sin E, Finnish folk-pop act Värttinä, Cuban guitarist Juan Carlos Formell, and Madagascar's Tarika.

BMG would not comment on Wicklow except to say that "everything is currently under review."

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