The Gloaming commence their US tour this Friday, 2nd of October in Los Angeles with concerts to follow in Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Philadelphia, Lewisburg  and New York.  After that they commence their Irish and UK tour.



From their Website : "THE GLOAMING are Iarla Ó Lionaird (singing), Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman…

May 2015 saw the release of a debut album by singer Lindsay Straw, who is a singer, guitarist, and bouzouki player, originally from Montana, but now living in Boston. The album is called My Mind From Love Being Free and it includes 10 traditional songs, mostly from the British Isles.   There is a strong theme of love…

"We play the music of our people. We sing in our own accents. We record in our kitchens and living rooms. This is our culture, our tradition." Released today Stick In The Wheel's debut album From Here is a raw, fresh take on English Folk music. Their now-trademark abrasive delivery of both original and traditional tracks, is not bland retroism,…

An Droichead and Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, two of the country’s leading Irish language and arts organisations, have just announced an exciting new project, Turais Trad, comprising two exclusive tours by some of the most popular folk and traditional music acts on the scene.

The tours…

Press Release : Too often artists view tradition as a towering monolith to be either conquered or cowed by, but young Scottish fiddler and experimantalist Jenna Moynihan knows that tradition is meant to be a starting point for great inspiration, not a wall.

On her new album, Woven, she darts back and forth like the shuttle in…

Swapping the salubrious interiors of New York’s finest concert halls, where Andy Lamy normally plies his trade, for the snug interior of The Cobblestone Pub in Dublin, is quite a change. A woodwind soloist on the roster of Artist International Management, Lamy is a member of the New Jersey Symphony…

Make sure to get to the RADA studios in London on the 25th October for the premiere of a unique production combining music, dance and poetry in one carefully crafted show.

It’s all about the harp this weekend at Muckross House in Kerry.  They will be celebrating the launch of the Kerry Harp Ensemble with organisers welcoming harpers from all corners of Ireland to their two day celebration of the Irish harp.  It will be a combination of harp master classes, sessions and a gala concert presented by the foremost figures in the Irish harp world…

Welcome to Tradconnect’s Worldwide Album Launch Series. For these launches we are working with over 60 radio broadcasters globally, making new traditional releases available for immediate free download through our…

Press Release : Dermot Byrne, one of Ireland’s finest traditional accordion players, will tour the country later this year to mark the twentieth anniversary of his solo album 'Dermot Byrne' released in 1995.  The album received critical acclaim at the time and still stands as one of the…

Detailed below are the Top 10 traditional Irish albums for September 2015.  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.

Don't forget that if you have an…

Our track of the week, for the second week in a row, with over 230 plays on Soundcloud over the last 7 days is from Rooska Hill.  It's the new album by Limerick natives Éamonn O’Riordan and Tony O’Connell. Tony hails from Glin in West Limerick but now resides in Co.Kerry. Self-taught on the concertina he has won numerous All-Ireland titles and has…

Cua are a Laois based band with members John Davidson, Shane Booth and Ros O'Meara. They like to call themselves Atlantean by which they mean, "a kind of folk and roots style, encompassing our Celtic heritage and the influences of ancient music on later genres such as Jazz,…

Welcome to Tradconnect’s Worldwide Album Launch Series. For these launches we are working with over 60 radio broadcasters globally, making new traditional releases available for immediate free download through our Download…

Skipper’s Alley have released a new video filmed in Whelan's Dublin. This 7-piece trad ensemble have garnered wide critical praise and have featured on such diverse stages as The Late Late Show and La Festival Interceltique de Lorient.

We…

For 2 days only (17th & 18th September 2015) you can listen to an exclusive stream of Oisín & Conal Hernon's new album Across the Sound.

This album is being launched at Fox's Bar, Forster Street, Galway on 18th September 2015.

We have also just launched this album as part of our Worldwide Album Launch…

Welcome to Tradconnect’s Worldwide Album Launch Series. For these launches we are working with over 60 radio broadcasters globally, making new traditional releases available for immediate free download through our…

This is a video trailer for the new album by Liam Merriman & Eoin O’Meachair called The Birds Never Cease.  We will have a Worldwide Album Launch next week for the album, when it will be added to our Download Centre and will be available to over 60 broadcasters worldwide.  

On the making of the album…

In 2014 we commenced our series of Online Album Launches with an album by Martin Tourish called Under a Red Sky Night.  Martin is a musician, composer and producer from Donegal, and has become a major force on the traditional music scene in Ireland, and abroad.  His creativity as a musician has continued to flourish since his…

The Little Ones, is a Maurice Lennon composition that we posted on Tradconnect some time back. The track also appeared on Maurice’s latest album, of the same name. Maurice himself posted a comment about the track on his Facebook profile recently, and it’s as good an excuse as any to bring the track back up to the top of the…