Traditional Irish Music
One of Ireland's best-known and most accomplished musicians and composers, Mícheál Ó Suilleabháin, and a staggering ensemble of Irish musicians, perform his most vibrant and evocative music with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
This captivating programme features Mícheál's Phoenix Rising Suite - the score to the documentary Pioneers and Aviators -…
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We Banjo 3 are on the promotional trail with their second album called Gather The Good. We have been listening to it of late and will have a review shortly. It’s the follow up to their critically acclaimed Roots of the Banjo…
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Detailed below are the UK Top 10 traditional Irish albums for August 2014. Each month we feature the top 10 albums and write follow up articles and present sounds from all new releases. If you have a new album on release send us a copy to these contact details.
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Interview No. 111 in the Custy's Interview Series features Leo MacNamara and Triona Marshall. Leo is from Scariff, Co. Clare, Ireland and began playing at an early age encouraged at the time by his father Martin. In those days inspiration was all around and early influences included P.J. Hayes, Paddy Canny, Martin Rochford, Martin Woods,…
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We hope your are enjoying your last weeks of summer! We're getting ready to embark on our Ireland and Scottish dates along with special guests Cathie Ryan on vocals, Nollaig Casey on fiddle, Declan McHale and Nathan Pilatzke jigging! We also wanted wanted to give you a little update with our current touring schedule and…
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Congrats to all the musicians behind Our Dear Dark Mountain with the Sky Over It, and their Gradam Award for collaboration, over the weekend. The album has been added to our Download Centre where up to 80 broadcasters can now access a free download.
The album is the final output of a project that started as a PhD…
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Welcome to the Tradconnect/Tunes in the Church "New Tune Composition Award" 2014. This award is a partnership between Tradconnect and the award winning concert series Tunes in the…
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Detailed below are the Top 10 traditional Irish albums for August 2014. Each month we feature the top 10 albums and write follow up articles and present sounds from all new releases. If you have a new album on release send us a copy to these contact details.
Why not also add a track to Soundcloud…
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2014 is a year for debut recordings and Siobhán Kennedy steps forward with her new album Séid. Although she has appeared on many other recordings over the years it wasn't until she purchased a fully operational 8-keyed flute last year that she finally decided to get herself into a studio. Originally from Dundalk but now living…
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John, Paul, George and Ringo....No, this is Portherhead who release their debut album today. We are looking out for the best videos of 2014 and this may very well be included. A rooftop gig on Inishbofin. They say they are "the genesis of a new era for Irish traditional music, blending pure traditional roots with the raw soul of the blues"…
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Here is the debut music video from a very promising band with a modern and vibrant sound. The band is Arhrú and the members include Niall McIlroy - Whistles/Flute, Brendan Loughran - Concertina, Kevin Meehan - Bodhran/Percussion, Cormac Crummey - Guitar/Fiddles/Banjo…
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Norah Rendell of The Outside Track has just released a number of solo and group tracks. These two are taken from The Outside Track's 2012 album Flash Company which we reviewed around the time of its release. …
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Continuing our look at All Ireland Winners at Fleadh Cheoil Na hÉireann 2014, a big congrats to duet winners Órlaith and Brogan McAuliffe. It was a tough one this year as we understand it. It would be hard however to beat this performance which they repeated on the gig rig.…
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The ITMA have announced that "the longest-running ever television series on Irish traditional music will come to the end of a 20-year run on 9 September 2014 when the final programme in the current series of Siar an Bóthar will be shown on TG4 (with continuing availability for some weeks on the TG4 Player).…
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We posted a lot of blogs/videos throughout the year and this one gained over 2,500 views making it the most watched/read blogs on Tradconnect in 2014. For those that don't get the opportunity to attend some of the Fleadh Cheoil competitions here is a taster of the frighteningly high level that needs to be reached in order…
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Our Dear Dark Mountain with the Sky Over It has just been released and it shows that there is still a deep seam of traditional music to be explored, uncovered and brought to life. Like some of the better albums of recent times it is held together with a theme, namely the music of the Sliabh Beagh region of North Monaghan/ East…
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This is a track from a new album called Rewind by a group called Fásta featuring musicians from Ireland and Québec. The band is Fiachra O’Regan (uilleann pipes, whistle & voice), Sophie Lavoie (Fiddle & Voice), Michael McCague (guitar) with the addition of a percussionist on occasion. Micheal you will be familair with from his recent album called…
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Congrats to Dylan Foley, Senior All- Ireland Fiddle Champion 2014. It may be no coincidence that the last time the title went to the States was 1986 when Dylan's mentor/teacher Brian Conway won. Its the only competition I got to this year at the Fleadh and with 20 competitors it takes about 5 hours in total to get through, so quite a fiddle fest. I…
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