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Sean nos dancer Emma O’Sullivan

Sean nos dancer Emma O’Sullivan

Sean nos dancer Emma O’Sullivan hails from from Renvyle in Connemara. She took up sean nos dancing in 2005 while a business and marketing student at university in Galway and by 2009, at the age of 24, had won the All-Ireland Sean Nos Dancing title at Oireachtas na Samhna in Letterkenny.
She has danced in the United States, [...]

TG4 honour ex-Chieftain Sean Potts

TG4 honour ex-Chieftain Sean Potts

Former Chieftains tin whistle player Sean Potts from Dublin has won a Lifetime Achievement Award in this year’s TG4 Traditional Music awards. Before helping to found The Chieftains in 1962 he was a member of Sean O Riada’s influential Ceoltoiri Cualann group.
He retired from The Chieftains in 1979. He has since served as chairman on [...]

The story of Celtic rock

The story of Celtic rock

History of Celtic rock, or punk, from Fairport Convention to Horslips, Pogues, and Dropkick Murphys

Irish language paper Foinse returns from the dead

Irish language paper Foinse returns from the dead

Foinse, which closed last June with the loss of 10 jobs, has returned, as an insert in the Irish Independent daily newspaper, every Wednesday, starting November 18. A disagreement over grants from its main funder, Foras na Gaeilge, and falling advertising revenue led to the closure.
The newly revitalised Irish language newspaper will bring a fresh [...]

The Fields of Athenry

The Fields of Athenry

It has rang out at packed sports arena, been done to death by drunks at closing time,denounced as sectarian, balladed, rocked and punked.
Often mistaken as a folk song, The Fields of Athenry was actually written by Dublin songwriter Pete St John in the mid 1970s. It is set during the Great Famine which devestated Ireland [...]

London Irish sticking their Neck out

London Irish sticking their Neck out

Neck have a new album of songs based on the Granny link … Go to http://www.irishpost.ie/tabId/310/itemId/6655/Sticking-their-necks-out-for-music.aspx

Al Barr back on the road with Dropkick Murphys

Al Barr back on the road with Dropkick Murphys

Al Barr of the Dropkick Murphys interviewed as they prepare to tour …
Go to http://www.sfstation.com/al-barr-of-dropkick-murphys-a23331

The Galway Girl: Lyrics and Background Story

The Galway Girl: Lyrics and Background Story

Virginia-born Steve Earle established himself in country music and rock generally, with his 1986 album Guitar Town. Ten years and a spell in rehab later, he was living in Barna, west of Galway, writing songs and stories and contemplating a life without booze and heroin. It was during this sojourn that he wrote the slow [...]

Phil Chevron: a Pogue at heart

Phil Chevron: a Pogue at heart

Detailed interview with the man at the heart of the Pogues at http://blogs.pitch.com/wayward/2009/10/wayward_qa_interview_with_philip_chevron_the_pogues.php

Pogues still fill the joint with energy

Pogues still fill the joint with energy

In a rare American appearance, the Pogues still fill a venue with charged energy More at http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2009/10/concert_review_the_pogues_more.php

The Story of ‘Danny Boy’

The Story of ‘Danny Boy’

This is a tale of the unexpected insofar as nothing about it – except maybe the lyrics – conforms to the stereotype.
The song Danny Boy was written by an Englishman. Barrister Frederick Edward Wheaterly (1848 – 1929) wrote the lyrics in 1910. However his original air was so poor, the song was destined for obscurity.
It was [...]

Are there two Galway Bays?

Are there two Galway Bays?

There is only one Galway Bay – but there are two songs of that name. The first, known to many as The Old Galway Bay was written by-
Francis Fahy (1854-1935).
Born on September 29, 1854, into a family of 17, eight of whom survived. Francis Fahy’s father, Thomas, came from the Burren area and his mother [...]

Haggis dishing up Canadian Celtic

Haggis dishing up Canadian Celtic

Being Canadian lends a touch of the exotic to Enter the Haggis … More at TheUnion.Com

Flogging Molly brims with Celtic flame

Flogging Molly brims with Celtic flame

Dennis Casey is still the new guy in Flogging Molly. Interview at http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2009/09/26/acl_2009_preview_flogging_moll.html

Whiskey Dicks do it for the love of liquor

Whiskey Dicks do it for the love of liquor

This Vancouver-band of Yukon musicians is branching out … More at http://www.straight.com/article-258841/whiskeydicks-do-it-all-love-liquor

Aussie rockers set firmly in folk tradition

Aussie rockers set firmly in folk tradition

McAlpine’s Fusiliers is a lively, successful Australian Celtic Rock group … More at  http://www.myspace.com/mcalpinesfusiliers

Young Dubliners: From ballads to barn burners

Young Dubliners: From ballads to barn burners

The Young Dubliners is a band playing between borders of both emotion and geography.

Qui Hi Ha? Irish music gets Spanish treatment

Qui Hi Ha? Irish music gets Spanish treatment

These Spaniards effectively combine Irish music with modern sounds

Rappers as Gaeilge to play Electric Picnic festival

Rappers as Gaeilge to play Electric Picnic festival

An Irish rap duo are to debut their cúpla focal at this year’s Electric Picnic festival.
‘Conas atá tú’, the newest track from Cork rapper GMC, featuring Bubba Shakespeare, will feature in the line-up for this year’s  music festival.
The track, a mixture of up-tempo hip-hop beats and traditional Irish music, is set to be a hit [...]

Potcheen pleases at Colorado Festival

Potcheen pleases at Colorado Festival

With bands like Gaelic Storm performing, it was Potcheen that pleased this writer …

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