In depth Irish Post interview with the sean nos singer

“We have a flawed and corrupt system,” the often outspoken folk singer tells Hot Press ….

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 [...]

Detailed Huffington Post interview with John Spillane, Cork singer

Altan mark 25 years as a band on Febriary 17 in the British Midlands …

Donal Lunny talks about university life in Limerick …

Opening of new Comhaltas centre is boycotted by [More]

For his new album, fiddler Kevin Burke teams up with composer Cal Scott

As the economy worsens, traditional music can help heal and bind us.

The Mulcahy Family from Co Limerick share their talents at the Masters of Tradition Festival

24 hours after the De Dannan row, the Wolfe Tones are on radio arguing over who owns the name …

Although he had to be assisted on and off stage and only sang five songs, Cavan fans couldn’t get enough of Shane MacGowan

The High Kings, Sharon Shannon Band and Celtic Women topped the email poll at the World Fleadh

WHAT’S in a name? Quite a lot for some musicians it seems, after a spat between two of the founding members of trad supergroup De Dannan erupted into a public row as some of Ireland’s best-known musicians insulted each other on the airwaves. Alec Finn, who founded the band along with fiddler Frankie Gavin, sent [...]

Irish Music is thriving in Hungary – with concerts by Blackriders, IrKa-IrKa and Bran. Bran plays a in Bran Klub Jókai Klub, Budapest, Hollós út 5. on the 18th July – this coming Saturday. At  17.00 They introduce Irish Dancing/Ceili and classes with Irish Music, all of this is followed by a show and an [...]

Gerry Adams recalls the days he knew the Orange anthem ‘The Sash My Father Wore’ off by heart in both Irish and English. “My interest in Orange ballads was a natural outworking of a love for folk or roots music,” he writes in his blog on the eve of ‘The Twelfth’. He also lays out [...]

Since 1996 Boston’s The Dropkick Murphys have fused traditional Celtic music, hardcore, and just straight-up rock ‘n’ roll into a sweaty, swinging sledgehammer