This week Tradconnect has passed an important milestone by exceeding over 500,000 plays of artists tracks on Tradconnect. These tracks have been added to our Soundcloud file and have subsequently been embedded within articles on the site. Each week we now receive over 3,500 plays which equates to over 215 hours of play each week.

In addition to these we have also embedded tracks directly from artists Soundcloud profiles and these achieve approx 200 hours play each week.

Finally, within our Download Centre, we have distributed 32,000 digital tracks to over 100 broadcasters globally.

Combined, Tradconnect is now generating over 400 hours of airplay each week for traditional artists making it the No.1 site for traditional music discovery.

Tradconnect is an independent channel that offers anyone with an interest in traditional music the opportunity to reach a vast new audience. We assist artists with the editing process and encourage artists to think more deeply about how they present themselves.

Since November we have also been working with RTE to bring trad news to an even larger audience. If you have an interesting press release, story, review, insight, release please write to us at this address and we may feature it on Tradconnect and RTE.

Finally as we work towards the end of 2016 we remind you that we have a €3,000 prize of traditional album of the year, sponsored by INEC Killarney.  If you have an album on release send it in to us this week.