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…

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…

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…

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 …

We haven't seen many new Irish Fiddle Tutorial book of late so this new one simply titled Irish Trad Fiddle by Tom Morley will no doubt be a good addition.  We may follow up with a review if we get our hands on a copy.  "Learn to Play Irish Trad Fiddle is a collection of 50 classic Irish jigs, reels, polkas and other tunes with playing hints, counting tips,…

Now we will be honest from the get go that this is strictly not traditional Irish.  We received these tracks through from Dublin band The Rattling Kind and as always we listen to everything.  A lot of the music we get falls outside the traditional remit that we have set for ourselves.  In this instance we are going to make an exception…

Mairéad Hickey is the winner of eight All Ireland Fiddle Championships and at the age of 16 she has created her own App for smart phones that is now available for purchase on iTunes.  She began learning the traditional Irish fiddle just before she turned 3 and has started to compile a database of tunes that you can now start to learn on this…

OAIM ( Online Academy of Irish Music ) have added yet another course to their ever growing database of music tutorials.  In this course Lisa Canny teachers twelve tunes specifically chosen to help improve and master different techniques on the harp. Lisa is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and composer from Co. Mayo. "She…

Today Capercaillie release the bands new 30th Anniversary Album called At the Heart of It All.  Even three groundbreaking decades after Capercaillie first performed as teenagers in their native Scottish Highlands; even as they continue the worldwide musical journey that’s taken them from the Brazilian rainforest to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, not to…

In their own words features excerpts from our discussions with musicians on their latest albums.  This is what Jacob McAuley had to say about Nua's new album. "Each of the four tunes on this EP are progressively modern in their composition. They represent a great snapshot of where we want to take their music. Basically since every tune on the EP is…