The Bonny Men: The Broken Pledge review – Pioneering trad progressionA refreshingly diverse selection of songs with big sound and expansive themesFri Feb 07 2020 - 04:58
The best traditional gigs in Ireland this weekSt Brigid’s Day celebrated, The Fiddle Case atDC Music Club, and plenty more to keep your feet tappingSat Feb 01 2020 - 05:00
Gig of the Week: the Spike Cello FestivalBoutique weekend festival lures lovers of classical, contemporary, traditional and folk musicSat Feb 01 2020 - 05:00
The best traditional music gigs to go to this weekTradfest Temple Bar, Galician gaita piper Anxo LorenzoSat Jan 25 2020 - 05:00
Steve Cooney: Ceol Ársa Cláirsí review – A glorious celebration of an ancient heritageCooney conjures up a finely honed collection of tunes for guitar from music originally written for the harpFri Jan 24 2020 - 05:00
Gig of the Week: TradFest in Temple BarHeadliners abound in this winter festival with plenty of opportunity to hear emerging trad musiciansSat Jan 18 2020 - 05:00
Stockton’s Wing still defying convention 40 years onMike Hanrahan has a renewed taste for the road as the folk rockers return to TradfestSat Jan 18 2020 - 05:00
The best traditional music gigs to go to this weekCherish The Ladies, Tradfest in Temple Bar, Dónal Lunny & Paddy GlackinSat Jan 18 2020 - 05:00
Varo: Self-titled review – baroque austerity reflects current Dublin sceneBare-boned, spartan fiddle arrangements suit the choice of songs perfectlyFri Jan 17 2020 - 05:00
Kathleen Turner: ‘I go in like a lion and leave like a lamb’Tyrone singer’s experience of community music in Omagh provides impetus for her first albumSat Jan 11 2020 - 05:00
The country’s best traditional music gigs happening this weekGalician sounds will fill Dublin’s Sugar Club as Cherish The Ladies celebrate 35 yearsSat Jan 11 2020 - 05:00
The best traditional music events this weekLisa O’Neill plays at An Góilín Singers Club while Christy Moore comes to Vicar StreetSat Jan 04 2020 - 05:00
Trad gigs of the week: Bounty of riches at Scoil Gheimhridh Ghaoth DobhairMick Hanly takes to the road solo and An Góilín starts a new season of song nightsSat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00
The best traditional music events this weekKíla’s gala festive concert in Dublin’s National Stadium offers plenty of theatrical treatsSat Dec 21 2019 - 05:00
The best traditional music events in Ireland this weekFestive music in Co Louth, Errol Walsh in Kimmage and Féile Kila at the National StadiumSat Dec 14 2019 - 05:00
2019 was the year of the harp, exceptional new tunes and bold explorationThe year in trad: Harp is moving front and centre at festivals as numbers playing increaseSat Dec 07 2019 - 05:00
The best traditional music events this weekMoya Brennan and Cormac de Barra play in Galway; An Góilín Singers Club takes place in DublinSat Dec 07 2019 - 05:00
Fidl: Decade review – Nothing short of breathtakingRemarkable ensemble playing from an exceptional trio of fiddlersFri Dec 06 2019 - 05:00
This week’s best traditional music concerts and eventsFarmleigh House hosts a festival and the sounds of harps fills Dublin CastleSat Nov 30 2019 - 05:00
Five folk and traditional gigs to go to this weekSonny Condell and Leo O’Kelly appear in Greystones, as Farmleigh festival kicks offSat Nov 23 2019 - 05:00
Traditional highlights: Mary McNamara in Clare, Ye Vagabonds in CorkMÓRglór Award Concert, Bray Singers’ Circle, Preab Meadar Rhythm & RhymeSat Nov 16 2019 - 05:00
‘I really want to take the harp off the tax envelope’Winners of this year's TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards on what the award means to themTue Nov 12 2019 - 05:00
The best trad gigs this weekYou can catch Kern, Landless, and Moving Hearts on their reunion tourSat Nov 09 2019 - 05:00
M’anam review – Debut from Anúna’s founder stymied by solemnityDespite soaring voices, Michael McGlynn’s new group struggles to take flightFri Nov 08 2019 - 05:00
Not to be missed trad gigs: Luinn, M’Anam and Domhnall Ó BraonáinEnter The Unthanks’ darkly passionate world of Emily BronteSat Nov 02 2019 - 05:00
Lankum: ‘We wanted the biggest, most apocalyptic sound’The four-piece band like to distort cosy preconceptions of traditional musicSat Oct 26 2019 - 05:00
The very best trad gigs: Séamus Ennis concert to global harp festivalTake in the unique Patrick O’Keefe Festival or Séamus Ennis Grand Centenary ConcertSat Oct 26 2019 - 05:00
Lankum: The Livelong Day review – A fierce and fragile masterpieceLankum march to the beat of their own tune too: in all its anarchic gloryFri Oct 25 2019 - 07:00
The best trad gigs this week: National Harp Day to Vyvienne LongRTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards and Achill International Harp Festival also worth catchingSat Oct 19 2019 - 05:00
Ed McGinley: Tangled Roots & Twisted Tales review – A slow-burning pleasureMusician’s debut solo recording is all the better for its lengthy gestationFri Oct 18 2019 - 00:00
Eclectic line-up for Sligo Live: This week’s best traditional gigsAlso: Trad photography of Tony Kearns, new series at Glór and Dónal Lunny in LouthSat Oct 12 2019 - 05:00
Four of the best trad music concerts this weekLiam O’Connor, Peter Browne and others feature in Gandhi 150 Ireland event in DublinSat Oct 05 2019 - 05:00
No Crows: Escape review – A glorious meleeCosmopolitan six piece showcases best of Irish tradition with languid hints of jazzFri Oct 04 2019 - 05:00
Cork Folk Festival celebrates 40 years with no shortage of musical shenanigansBeloved event has intimate sessions across the city’s premier venuesSat Sept 28 2019 - 05:00
Moya Brennan of Clannad, Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds: The best trad gigs this weekThe Cork Folk Festival will bring top-class traditional music to the citySat Sept 28 2019 - 05:00
Leonard Barry, Declan Folan and Shane McGowan: Hurry the Jug review – Graceful collision of past and presentThis trio have parked their egos outside the door, and let the music tell its own talesFri Sept 27 2019 - 04:45
Stockton’s Wing celebrate 40 years a-flying: this week’s best traditional gigsEmer Mayock in Mayo, Andy Irvine in Hollywood and Altan back home in DonegalSat Sept 21 2019 - 05:00
Moya Brennan: ‘I never claimed to be a traditional singer’Clannad’s singer and harpist has won a Grammy and an Emmy, but being honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards is specialThu Sept 19 2019 - 05:00
As the NoCrows fly: This week’s best trad gigsA humdinger Music Network tour is among the traditional highlights this weekSat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett review: Joyous music defying categorisationThe Gloaming duo’s collaboration is dreamlike, mysterious and utterly engagingFri Sept 06 2019 - 05:00
Shaun Davey: ‘I got to know where the sweet spot is on the uilleann pipes’The 70-year-old composer prepares for a performance to celebrate his ground-breaking orchestral work The Brendan VoyageSat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
The banjo boys are back in town: this week’s best traditional gigsWe Banjo 3 return from a successful Stateside run for some homecoming concertsSat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
The best trad gigs of the week: From Altan to David PowerBantry hosts Masters of the Tradition, Carrick on Bannow hosts Phil Murphy WeekendSat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00
The best traditional gigs this weekTrad master class in Bantry, Altan celebrate 30 years and away with the Faeries in FarmleighSat Aug 17 2019 - 05:00
The best traditional music events this weekNuala Kennedy and John Doyle play in Dublin while Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann kicks off in DroghedaSat Aug 10 2019 - 05:00
Martin Hayes & Brooklyn Rider – The Butterfly review: Masterclass in risk-takingCollaboration between fiddler and string quartet is best savoured slowly, again and againFri Aug 09 2019 - 05:00
Are you going to the Fleadh? This week’s best traditional gigsAlso: Skibbereen Arts Festival, Zoë Conway & John McIntyre, John SpillaneSat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00
Goítse – Úr review: Folk quintet shine on fourth albumBand’s reputation for high-octane arrangements is copper-fastened by this collectionFri Aug 02 2019 - 05:00
The four best traditional music gigs to go to this weekBelfast Trad Festival, Kevin Burke, Muldoon’s PicnicSat Jul 27 2019 - 03:00
