Included below is a short sample from recording sessions that we have been doing this week at Rainwater Studio in County Westmeath. It's from a new album that will be released later in the year. It is a follow up to …

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Specialising in tradition-based instrumental music.

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1. Karen Tweed & Tom McElvogue: Merry days of…

Via RTE Culture Acclaimed filmmaker Pat Collins writes for Culture about his acclaimed film Song of Granite, a impressionistic…

Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy have just published their official programme for this years music festival that takes place on July 7th - 15th 2018.

The festival is a week-long summer school in traditional music and set dance held annually at Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare. The first and biggest of such events, it commemorates…

Fresh off of her tour with global sensation Gaelic Storm, fiddler Katie Grennan has just released her second solo fiddle album titled The Second Story, which we are featuring today on Tradconnect. On the recording…

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Specialising in tradition-based instrumental music.

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1. Bernadette Nic Gabhann: The Flowers of Redhill /…

There are many reasons to be excited about new Glasgow-based five-piece Ímar – not least a line-up featuring current and former members of Mànran, RURA, Talisk, Barrule, Cara, Mabon and The Lowground, whose collectively crammed trophy-cabinet includes a BBC Young Folk Award and several All-Britain/All-Ireland titles. By far the best and biggest reason, however, is how…

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Dervish have been bringing Irish traditional music to the world for more than 25 years. Described by the BBC as “an icon of Irish music”, the band have played at festivals from Rio to Glastonbury. They are regular visitors to the US, performing sell out shows from coast to coast. However, their fan base stretches across several continents, including Europe,…

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Re-posting from last week, as I failed to upload the programme properly and it didn't go out.

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Detailed below are the Top 10 traditional Irish albums for February 2018.  Each month we feature the top 10 albums, write follow up articles and present sounds from all new releases. 

Don't forget that if you have an album on release check out our …

Aberdeenshire folksinger Iona Fyfe has become one of Scotland’s finest young ballad singers, rooted deeply in the singing traditions of the North East of Scotland. At twenty-years-old, she has established a strong voicing of place in her repertoire and was nominated as Scots Singer of the Year at the MG ALBA Scots…

‘Here To Play’ is the debut album release from Bernadette Nic Gabhann. Born into a musical family in Ashbourne, Co. Meath Ireland, Bernadette learned to play fiddle from her father Antóin, a well known Co. Cavan fiddle player. Her mother's dancing side of the family…

The Blue Tar Road is the new release from Fermanagh native, Brendan Nugent. Brendan, son of All-Ireland fiddle and céilí band maestro Sean Nugent, and a brother to a host of All-Ireland winning champions, now takes this opportunity to share the talent which saw him achieve his own All-Ireland success, in Ennis…