The is a great slow reel taken from an album by Dulahan called Airs & Gracenotes. Dulahan-irl features banjo and guitar player Joe Greene and Adéle Greene on fiddle and harp.  Adéle also composed this tune.…

Peadar Ó Riada has been back in the studio again and this time he has brought along his friends Éamon McGivney and John Kelly.  They have recorded under the name The Dróle, subtitled "A few tunes for our friends.  Its a sparkling little album with a fine selection of slides, hop jigs, hornpipes and a few reels and jigs.  

If…

We have 10 pairs of tickets to give away for what will be a remarkable concert on Thursday 12th September at the National Concert Hall in Dublin.  To win the tickets simply name the artist that will feature.  Easy indeed.  Add your comment below and make sure that you are available to attend on the night. Two…

Changing Time is the highly anticipated debut solo release from multi-instrumentalist David Doocey. It contains 12 tracks of both traditional tunes and newly composed music, featuring the talents of Patrick and Kevin Doocey, Stephen and Kevin Doherty and Ryan Molloy. For more info you can visit www.daviddoocey.com where you can also listen to sample tracks off the album! …

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts now living in Foxford, County Mayo, David Doocey is at the forefront of a younger generation of musicians.

He has won several awards including All-Ireland medals on both fiddle and concertina and the first ever World Fleadh fiddle championship in 2005. He has also achieved success in the much coveted Feile Oriel trophy, an award previously held by Tommy Peoples. He is featured on…

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This year we are going to run our album of the year poll once again.  Last year’s was such a success that we are going to make this an annual event.  Our winner last year, in case you have being living on another planet was Caitlín Nic Gabhann and her debut called…

The Green Bunch of Joy is an album of music that “connects us with hopes and disappointments, sorrows and joys of those that have gone but who live again when we play their tunes” according to Dermot Rafferty who conceived this album and…

Timing is Everything is the debut album release by Siobhán Smith and it is being launched tonight 27th August 2013 in The Grand Social in Dublin's city centre.  Born and raised in New York Siobhán grew up in a family immersed in Irish…

This is an interesting experiment by Tunepal developer and Tradconnect member  Dr Bryan Duggan and  Dr Norman Makoto Su from…

Concert Window is a new initiative that has been created by New Yorker and member of The Yanks Dan Gurney.  Its a website that we have only recently come across, full name www.concertwindow.com We started our free trial and viewed a gig by Americana star Bob Bradshaw. You…

When it comes to Album of the Month for September there can only be one album that we have recently reviewed that has to take this slot.  Edel Fox and Neill Byrne and their album The Sunny Banks is simply a stunning album that has everything necessary to make it a classic. 

It is concertina and fiddle driven music of the highest order and will…

Well the Bernard's Summer School in Prague, Czech Republic did not disappoint! Hugely enjoyable time there. The interest in our Irish culture was overwhelming. Wednesday night saw John Byrne, Mark Swaine and I provide the live music for the Céilí evening at KC Novodvorská where the audience and dancers cheered us to play an encore at the end of the night. The…

Our track of the week features the work of Gerry Diver who we have highlighted before.  His album was voted in the top 13 of all time by Tom Robinson which you can read about.  You need to listen through the entire track.  We highlighted this album…

With the summer nearly over it will soon be a case of back to normal routines.  We have held off on posting up artist interviews for the summer period as the online world is generally a lot quieter with everyone rightly experiencing the offline world at festivals and summer schools etc.  We already have a couple of interviews in the bag and will post…

With the summer nearly over it will be back to normal routines.  We have held off on posting up artist interviews for the summer period as the online world is generally a lot quieter with everyone rightly experiencing the offline world at festivals and summer schools etc.  We already have a couple of interviews in the bag and will post them up shortly.  We will be talking to Alan Jordan about…

Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2013.  With the Fleadh now over and very successful by all accounts here is an unofficial selection of winners gathered from our Facebook Page.  You can get a real flavor of the level of performance required to win in any of the instrument categories.  We may even try and get talking to some of the winners to find out what the experience was…

For those of you interested in the future of music online it is worth sitting through some of these open debate discussions that have just been uploaded onto YouTube.  Its a panel discussion between senior representatives from Spotify, Soundcloud and Rdio.  

We have included the first 3 of 7 here and you can go to YouTube to see the rest.  It raises…

Spanning three generations, O’Connor, Hill and Ó Fearghail – all TG4 Gradam Ceoil winners – are united by a deep knowledge and love for the music of the legendary masters of Irish tradition: Coleman, Ennis, Clancy, Potts and Tóibín.  For this tour, these three stellar soloists are sure to delight trad fans with their fresh, vibrant take…

Lúnasa will be live-streaming their Wednesday 14th November show at The Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA USA. Wherever you are in the world, you can tune in! You can purchase online tickets for $5 anytime at …