This track is clocking up a lot of plays on Tradconnect and is back to No.1 this week. We launched the album in September 2015, and added it to our Download Centre where broadcasters can download it for free.  

We wrote: "This…

Cherish the Ladies are the long-running, Grammy-nominated, Irish-American supergroup that formed in New York City in 1985 to celebrate the rise of extraordinary women in what had been a male-dominated Irish music scene and has since toured the world, played the White House and the Olympics, recorded 15 outstanding albums including…

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 : Hup captures the very best of our music in many of the musical hotbeds around the country and over the course of 13 programmes we’ve been treated to intimate performances by masters young and old.

This very special Christmas Day edition of Hup brings us into the heart of Kinvara, Co. Galway and…

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…

On September 18th 2015 Oisín and Conal Hernon will launch their new album called Across the Sound at Fox’s Bar, Forster Street in Galway.

Oisín and Conal, from the Aran Island of Inis Mór, are extremely able musicians, who are themselves descended from various generations of musicians. Music is in the…

Welcome to Tradconnect’s Worldwide Album Launch Series. For these launches we are working with 80 radio broadcasters globally, making new traditional releases available for immediate free download through our…

Press Release : ‘Areas Of High Traffic’ is an extraordinary album. But then, Damien O’Kane is an extraordinary musician. An immense banjo player. An accomplished, versatile guitarist. A seriously good singer. A naturally inventive arranger. An inveterate musical explorer. A producer. A bandleader. A provocatively original interpreter…

Welcome to Tradconnect’s Worldwide Album Launch Series. For these launches we are working with over 50 radio broadcasters globally, making new traditional releases available for immediate free download through our Download…

This is a newly released track from the forthcoming album by Frankie Gavin, Malachy Bourke and Brian Bourke called The Masters Return - A Tribute to Paddy Killoran.  "Renowned fiddle player Frankie Gavin, who co-founded the highly influential supergroup Dé Danann, joins forces with the father-and-son duo of Malachy Bourke…

Here are the Top 20 tracks as played on our Soundcloud file throughout the month of August 2015. Bobby Casey still leads the way with over 11,000 plays as a result of being featured on a BBC playlist. 

Dana Lyn and Kyle Sanna connect the dots between their experiences as composers and improvisers in New York City, and their deep admiration for traditional Irish music. Their inventive arrangements and nuanced interpretations of traditional music have graced clubs, festivals and concert halls throughout the US and Canada. The duo's second recording, The…

This concert celebrates the publication of the epic new book, The Wheels Of The World: 300 Years Of Irish Uilleann Pipers, by Colin Harper with John McSherry. Introduced by Colin Harper, the show features three globally renowned pipers.

A founder member of The Bothy Band (1974-79), Paddy Keenan is a living…

The launch of our Download Centre in June 2015 has been an outstanding success.  The Download Centre is a private area on Tradconnect where pre-approved broadcasters can download the latest traditional albums for free.  Over 120 broadcasters are participating and all are gaining access to new albums as they are…

Music Network today welcomed the announcement by Heather Humphreys TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, confirming capital funds of €210,000 for the Music Capital Scheme 2015.

The Music Capital Scheme, supported by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and managed by Music Network, provides funding for the purchase of musical instruments to…

We often ask artists to describe their music and replies in the main are gentle and reserved.  One band that we admire a lot are Sligo outfit Moxie who bring a refreshing alternative sound to the table. We listen to in excess of 120 albums each year and at least 80%+ are traditional or predominately traditional.  There are only a handful of artists that are creating…

Want to know what the most played Irish traditional track on Soundcloud is? Over the last year or so we have monitored Soundcloud to establish a Top 10 and we posted it recently here.

However for…

The Lower Road is the much anticipated solo release by a musician that has generally remained in the shadows of the many bands and projects that he has been involved with over the years.  Paul Meehan was born in Manchester where contemporaries like Mike McGoldrick, Dezi Donnelly & John Joe Kelly provided the early…