Jiggy are back with a new video and single called Head Rush. Inventive, creative and different, the band features an array of talent including Éamonn Galldubh - Uilleann Pipes, Matthew Noone - Sarod, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin - Vocals, Debojyoti Sanyal - Vocals & Tabla, Mark Murphy - Keyboards, Guy Rickarby - Drums and Robbie Harris -…

Welcome to Tradconnect’s Worldwide Album Launch Series. For these launches we are working with over 70 radio broadcasters globally, making new traditional releases available for immediate free download through our Download Centre. For artists this makes an online…

Welcome to Tradconnect’s Worldwide Album Launch Series. For these launches we are working with over 70 radio broadcasters globally, making new traditional releases available for immediate free download through our…

In August this year we launched the new album by Buttons & Bows on Tradconnect, and added it to our Download Centre where broadcasters can download it for free.  It’s their…

Gailfean is a new band that are currently recording a debut album in New York.  The members are Máirtín de Cógáin, Brian Conway, John Whelan and Don Penzien.They have started a Kickstarter campaign for the album and write the following about the goals and aspirations of the recording.

"Gailfean, a word…

As part of the ongoing development of Tradconnect we are looking at the provision of a number of new resources on the site.  

The recent addition of our Download Centre…

Welcome to Tradconnect’s Worldwide Album Launch Series. For these launches we are working with over 70 radio broadcasters globally, making new traditional releases available for immediate free download through our Download Centre. For…

Tremolo are Dónall Donnelly (Fiddle), Stijn Van Beek (Uilleann Pipes) and Kaspar Laval (Bouzouki/E-Guitar), and this is a preview of a track called Barralin / Dave Collin's / Pull The Knife And Stick It Again, which they have just released.  …

This is the opening track from An Mhaighdean Mhara by Noeleen Ní Cholla, an award-winning sean-nós singer from Gweedore in the Donegal Gaeltacht. There are thirteen tracks in all each with accompaniment by Manus Lunny. The album includes songs from the Irish tradition, the Scottish tradition and it…

Following their well deserved BBC appearance on Later ...with Jools Holland, Dublin band Lynched turned up 'In Session'on BBC3 Radio with Verity Sharpe during the week. They talk about their background in Dublin and their music.

"Lynched are a four-piece traditional folk group who combine distinctive four-part vocal harmonies with…

Our most played track over the last 7 days on our Soundcloud file is from the new release by Freya Rae and Louis Bingham.  The album is called Curlicue and this is the opening track featuring The Foorglass Jig (Tom McElvogue), The Orphan (trad.), Drag Her Round the…

Here are three tracks from the debut album by Gráinne Brady and Tina Jordan Rees called High Spirits. They first met at a session in the Ben Nevis Bar in Glasgow in 2011 and have been playing as a duo ever since. They write a lot of their own music, and entered a composition into our recent 'New Tune…

Here is a new track from a recent live gig in The Cobblestone Bar, Dublin, featuring fiddle player Danny Diamond (Mórga, Slow Moving Clouds) & accordionist David Munnelly (Dave Munnelly Band, Mórga).  It was a one-off gig showcasing material from their new duo project.…

Welcome to Tradconnect’s Worldwide Album Launch Series. For these launches we are working with over 70 radio broadcasters globally, making new traditional releases available for immediate free download through our…

The Trip to Birmingham Tradfest takes place on 26th to 29th of November and this year it looks quite impressive. They have a great lineup of musicians, many of whom we have featured on the site throughout the year. We include a playlist that we have compiled from our Soundcloud tracks, featuring artists like Claire Egan…

This is the first listen to two track from the new album by The Whileaways.  It’s called Saltwater Kisses and is the follow up to their self-titled debut released in 2013. Laden with their distinctive harmonies and a layer of mellow guitar this folk and roots trio have been building quite…

This is the latest Fund It campaign for a new album.  This time it’s by Pauline Scanlon who we have covered regularly on Tradconnect.  Here is what she had to say.  

“I am about to record my first solo album in ten years!  Over the last decade, I have been busy with fellow west Kerry singer Éilís…

Welcome to Tradconnect’s Worldwide Album Launch Series. For these launches we are working with over 70 radio broadcasters globally, making new traditional releases available for immediate free download through our…

This is a track from the recent Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell album of the same name called ‘The Travelling Kind’. It’s a classic country/folk song that will inevitably show up on a traditional album in the not too distant future. The album is a follow up to their 2013's Grammy-winning Old Yellow Moon, recording.…

Detailed below are the Top 10 traditional Irish albums for October 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 album…