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Fleadh Mor to honour Ed Reavy

Fleadh Mor to honour Ed Reavy

Ed Reavy was born in Barnagrove, Mudabawn, Co Cavan in 1898. He emigrated to the USA as a teenager with his family in 1912 and settled in the predominantly Irish area of  Philadelphia known as Corktown. Barring visits home in 1922 and much later in 1969, he spent his life there until his death [...]

Steve Cooney weds Sinead O’Connor

Steve Cooney weds Sinead O’Connor

Former Stocktons Wing member Steve Cooney has married singer Sinead O’Connor. A notice posted on Sinead O’Connor’s website on July 22, 2010, reads: “We who run this site are very happy to announce the marriage of Steve Cooney and Sinéad O’Connor has taken place this morning.” Venue, legal or spiritual status [...]

Was Molly Malone really such a ‘Cailin Deas’?

Was Molly Malone really such a ‘Cailin Deas’?

The lyrics of the popular Dublin song published in the 18th century tell a different story.
The wit who dubbed the statue of Molly Malone in Dublin’s city centre “the tart with the cart” may not have been far off the mark.
A tiny 18th-century book has turned up in Hay-on-Wye containing the earliest [...]

Mike Rafferty wins US Endowment Award

Mike Rafferty wins US Endowment Award

Flute player Mike Rafferty has been honoured by the US National Endowment for the Arts with a 2010 Heritage Award.
Born in 1926, Mike Rafferty grew up in Ballinakill, East Galway, on a 12-acre farm. In the heart of a locality steeped in the very best of traditional music, he learned to play music from [...]

Aimee is world bodhran champion

Aimee is world bodhran champion

Aimee Farrell-Courtney from Ratoath in Co. Meath was crowned World Bodhrán Champion 2010 at the annual festival in Milltown in Co. Kerry on June 7. Aimee came first of 15 entries in the senior competition,  judged by Donal Lunny, Connor Lyons and Sandra Joyce. She has being playing the Bodhrán for 13 [...]

IMRO go after blogs for royalties

IMRO go after blogs for royalties

The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) has moved against several top Irish blogs, demanding they pay hundreds of euro annually to continue sharing songs – even if they are sent to them by the artists and labels themselves, according to the Guardian newspaper.
So far, IMRO has contacted only three Irish blogs, but [...]

Kilfenora prepare for next 100 years

Kilfenora prepare for next 100 years

Last year the Kilfenora Ceili Band marked their hundreth birthday with a hectic schedule, including Glastonbury Festival. So time for the centenarians to hang up their instruments? Far from it, the Kilfenora continue to evolve. Their performance at Glor in Ennis on April 24 looks interesting, with additional players and unusual instruments joining them.
“The [...]

Altan to mark 25 years together

Altan to mark 25 years together

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

Lunny finds college life refreshing

Lunny finds college life refreshing

Donal Lunny talks about university life in Limerick …

President caught up in ‘Battle of Clontarf’

President caught up in ‘Battle of Clontarf’

Opening of new Comhaltas centre is boycotted by [More]

Kevin Burke teams up with composer

Kevin Burke teams up with composer

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

Can the music can lift us out of the doldrums?

Can the music can lift us out of the doldrums?

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

Mulcahys share their varied musical talents

Mulcahys share their varied musical talents

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

Next up: the Wolfe Tones name row

Next up: the Wolfe Tones name row

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

Shane MacGowan gets a leg-up

Shane MacGowan gets a leg-up

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

High Kings, Sharon Shannon top poll

High Kings, Sharon Shannon top poll

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

Skin and fur flying in Tuatha De Dannan

Skin and fur flying in Tuatha De Dannan

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

Irish music is thriving in Hungary

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 [...]

Adams knew ‘The Sash’ in Irish

Adams knew ‘The Sash’ in Irish

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 [...]

Sledgehammer beat with Dropkicks

Sledgehammer beat with Dropkicks

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

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