‘Gaelic Americana’ artist Kyle Carey has just announced the launch of her Kickstarter campaign for her third album The Art of Forgetting - due out next autumn.

Kyle will be recording The Art of Forgetting in January with producer Dirk Powell at his home studio ‘The…

This is the first track off the new album by  Zoë Conway,  Máirtín O'Connor and Dónal Lunny called In Full Sail. The tunes are Paddy In London / A Tailor I Am / Adam And Eve.

Máirtín O'Connor was part of the original Riverdance phenomenon. Add to that his work with bands such as…

Coming Home is a new landmark documentary charting the journeys of five Irish emigrants spread across four continents as they pursue a common dream of returning to live out their remaining days in Ireland.

It is the debut feature by Cathal Kenna who himself experienced two periods of mass emigration and…

Carry the Day is the new debut album by Dublin singer Aoife Scott. The album was launched on Tradconnect in February 2016 and you can read that article here.  The songs for the album…

Branches is the second disc in a concept album series which charts Andrew Finn Magill’s musical progression in Irish music. In June this year we featured the first album in this series called…

JigJam have just released a new video as a taster of their new album Hello World which will be released tomorrow 22nd October. The band comprises Jamie McKeogh (Guitar, tenor banjo and lead vocals), Daithi Melia (5 String Banjo and vocals) Cathal Guinan (Double Bass, fiddle and vocals) and…

Detailed below are the Top 10 traditional Irish albums for September2016.  Each month we feature the top 10 albums, write follow up articles and present sounds from all new releases. We have also just announced a €3,000 prize for our Album of the Year 2016, sponsored by The INEC Killarney so get your albums to us at this …

Press Release: Acclaimed musicians each in their own right, Caitlín Nic Gabhann and Ciarán Ó Maonaigh have joined forces to create one of traditional music’s most impressive acts.

They have just announced a US tour in October/November and the dates are included below.

The pair’s spirited music and dance is rooted in the…

On their new duo album NORTH, Belfast-born fiddle players Conor Caldwell and Danny Diamond blend a shared northern musical heritage with the fruits of further-afield musical adventures to create a landmark Irish fiddle recording. New compositions sit comfortably alongside forgotten gems from old manuscript collections;…

"For generations, Boston was the American home for expatriate Cape Breton Islanders. Far from the rich Scottish culture of their island home in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Maritime Canadian dancehalls grew up around the Watertown neighborhood and other parts of Boston. The Canadian-American Club, the French Victory Club, the Greenville Cafe; these…

A special edition of the popular radio programme, ‘Céilí House’, featuring the winners of Siansa Gael Linn 2016 , ‘Círéib’ from Coláistí Eoin & Íosagáin, Booterstown, Co. Dublin, will be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 on Saturday next, 22 October next at 9.02p.m.



Hear musicians Fiona Nic Gamhna- Fiddle/Viola/Song; Mícheál Ó Grálaigh – Fiddle/Song; Seán Ó Casaide –…

Our track of the week, with over 225 plays over the last 7 days is 'The Very Man' by Kevin Rowsome. It is taken from his new solo album called Cuisle Cheol na bPíob. 

Cuisle Cheol na bPíob is the culmination of over five years of research into ancient traditional Irish music. He analysed the…

On Saturday, December 3rd 2016, the Irish language will be officially celebrated through Féasta 100, one of the main closing events of the 1916 commemorative year. No one can deny the power of the Irish language in the penmanship and communication of many of the…

Here is track 2 off the new We Banjo 3 album called ‘String Theory’.

It includes the tunes Cousin Sally Brown, Green Tomato Pie and Bell Cow.  …

Welcome to Tradconnect’s Worldwide Album Launch Series. For these launches we are working with over 100 radio broadcasters globally, making new traditional releases available for immediate free download through our Download…

Hello Cherish fans. We had a brilliant summer and hope you did too! We had fantastic gigs in Ireland and England and now are looking forward to a very busy fall and Christmas tour including our first visit to Japan! Scroll down to check out our upcoming tours and please share the events with your friends!!! We hope we are coming to a town near…

How’s it going folks? Apologies for the lack of correspondence, we’ve all been super crazy busy all summer and things just ran away from us.

It was such a fantastic and varied summer of tours, teaching and tunes galore! Ireland, France, Brittany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, various parts of the US including…

Cuisle Cheol na bPíob is the new album by Dublin born uilleann piper Kevin Rowsome. It is a solo unaccompanied recording and has been described as “the essence of what our tradition is about.”

Being the fifth generation of uilleann pipers and pipe makers in his family, Kevin was immersed in the world of…

The Lady’s Cup of Tea is the new album from Co Clare concertina player Mary Mac Namara and daughter Sorcha Costello who plays fiddle. This is the fifth album from Mary whose first album “Traditional Music from East Clare” (Released in 1994) was widely acclaimed and voted…

VIEW festival of Politics, Arts & Ideas in association with Farcry Productions and Raelach Records have announced an honorary benefit concert in support of the welfare of Tony Mac Mahon.