The opening concert of this year’s Frankie Kennedy Winter School in Co Donegal on December 28 was streamed live. The concert features Seamus Begley, Tim Edey, Mick O’Brien and Caoimhin O Raghallaigh.
The concert was streamed by LiveTrad.com which brought us the Dervish Sligo birthday concert last summer. The video can be viewed at
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Sarah Keane, the last surviving member of her generation of the famous musical family from Caherlistrane, Co Galway, died on December 21, 2010. She was aunt of singers  Dolores and Sean Keane.
Sarah, who was 92, died at the family home at Carragh, Caherlistrane. Along with her sister Rita she had a store of rare folk [...]

Irish traditional music has gone into space with the US/Russia joint space station mission which tooks off from Kazakhstan.
Astronaut Catherne ‘Cady’ Coleman has packed a traditional Irish concert flute given to her by Chieftains musician Matt Molloy.
Cady is a committed Irish traditional musician and told a press conference on December 14 that she intended playing [...]

Singer Paul Brady has been awarded the 2010 Tenco Prize for Songwriting. The prize has been awarded to a songwriter every year since 1974, with previous winners including such talent as Joni Mitchell, Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen.
The award was inspired by the Italian songwriter Luigi Tenco, who died in [...]

Michael Flatley has decided to move his family to the warmer climate of California rather than make his 19th century Cork estate, Castlehyde, his main home.
The Chicago-born dancer will make Beverly Hills his main home, beating out the Irish deep freeze and his other pads in Barbados and London, as well as his aristocratic mansion [...]

The Ibiza Fleadh is held in Port De Torrent, Ibiza, every year in late April and early May. The Fleadh celebrates Irish dancing and culture and is held in the Sirenis Country Club Hotel.
Over 2000 Irish music enthusiasts from as far afield as America and Canada, flock to the festival which starts in late April. [...]

Dublin’s planned statue of Luke Kelly has become a victim of Ireland’s economic woes. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) had agreed to install a statue to honour the Dubliners legend at a cost of €85,000, but it has since retracted its promise because of its own financial difficulties. “Recently when the DDDA were brought [...]