Gathering Traditional Festival, Bríd Harper – the best trad music this weekThe Gathering Festival boasts an enviable programme while Sharon Mannion has a theatrical take on the much maligned boxSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
Tim Edey, Laoise Kelly & Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn: the week’s best traditional musicMary Corcoran, Aoife O’Connor and Majella O’Beirne play ‘Twas Down by Anna Liffey’ at The Clé Club, Liberty HallSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
From Waterville in Kerry to Waterfront in Belfast: the best trad music this weekÉigse na Brídeoige takes a maritime theme; Gradam Cheoil Traditional Music Awards cherishes the ladies; White Raven brings Irish traditional and medieval song togetherSat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Piping hot performances: The best trad music this weekThe Sound of Ireland celebrates uileann pipes at the Abbey. Plus: Tradfest takes a bow, Féile na Tána kicks off in Carlingford, and Brendan McCreanor curates Slow SessionsFri Jan 26 2018 - 06:00
The Friel Sisters: Before The Sun – Glasgow girls let their Donegal roots shineFri Jan 26 2018 - 05:00
Tradfest 2018 puts female artists centre stageTradfest 2018: Everything you need to know - it promises an eclectic mix, with performances from Martha Wainwright, Shirley Collins, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill and many moreTue Jan 23 2018 - 05:00
The best trad music this week: Lúnasa, David Power, Tríona Marshall and moreIrish Concertina Ensemble and a stellar line-up for Armagh Pipers Club fundraiserFri Jan 19 2018 - 06:00
Trad music highlights of the weekAn ensemble with a difference, a tasty teatime session and sublimely subtle harpingFri Jan 12 2018 - 06:00
The best trad music this week: Kilfenora Céilí Band and Sharon ShannonAlso, a foursome from Arcady, Altan, Dervish and Solas start their short tour in DublinFri Jan 05 2018 - 06:00
Trad music gigs of fthe weekFamily seisiún in Ghaoth Dobhair, the pipes are calling to the Cobblestone and singers are summoned to Club An GóilínFri Dec 29 2017 - 05:00
Roots and recitals: trad music highlights for the week aheadGreenshine, Noel Pocock and an Góilín Singers Club night in DublinFri Dec 22 2017 - 05:00
Traditional music highlights of the week ending Dec. 24thClare Youth Trad Orchestra – Gatehouse – Moya’s 10th anniversary Irish Christmas – Gerry Cullen and friendsFri Dec 15 2017 - 05:00
Folk music is to people what pollen is to the beeNick Roth’s band Yurodny celebrate their 10th anniversary with a new suite ‘Wave’, coalescing traditional and modern music inspired by the jesters of Russian folkloreTue Dec 12 2017 - 05:00
Traditional music highlights of the weekMeditations on Dún Laoghaire port and open singing session in the Teachers’ ClubFri Dec 08 2017 - 05:00
The best Trad music this week: Ravel’s Bolero re-imagined in a Celtic ChristmasMuireann Nic Amhlaoibh celebrates release of solo album and a fundraiser for flood victims in InishowenSat Dec 02 2017 - 04:00
The highlights of the week in TradMoxie – Rags Upon the Poddle with Pádraig O’Nualláin – Steve Cooney, Dermot Byrne and Trevor HutchinsonFri Nov 24 2017 - 05:00
Women dominate the 2018 TG4 Gradam Ceoil AwardsThe list of winners represents a shift in the scales of traditional music, with four of the six individual awards going to womenMon Nov 20 2017 - 05:00
The best trad music this week: Danú, Síle Denvir and The Sick & Indigent Song ClubTwo singers with special voices among this week’s picksSat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
The best trad this week: National Harp Day and Irish Gamelan OrchestraIt’s National Harp Day on Saturday with events across the country while the William Kennedy Piping Festival takes place in ArmaghSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
High Trad: Traditional and folk music listings for November‘Memory’ orchestra at Christ Church and sean-nós reimagined in SligoFri Nov 03 2017 - 05:00
Martin Hayes: ‘I’m a complete guerrilla performer from the side of a mountain’Experimentation and evolution are essential to music, says Hayes, who doesn’t miss the days of career-long contracts with labelsTue Oct 31 2017 - 05:00
‘There are very few songs about the famine. It was skipped over’Singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke mines the darkest corners of Irish history on his latest albumMon Oct 30 2017 - 05:00
We won’t harp on, but there’s great trad to be had this weekendHighlights: Achill Harp Festival, Patrick O’Keeffe Trad Festival and John SpillaneFri Oct 27 2017 - 05:00
Ye Vagabonds make a sparkling debutDiarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn make as confident a folk debut as you’ll hear this yearWed Oct 25 2017 - 12:25
Traditional music: the best gigs to see this weekSiobhán Long’s recommendationsFri Oct 20 2017 - 05:00
Clouds over Carrick-on-Shannon: this week’s trad highlightsSlow Moving Clouds, Eilís Kennedy, Mórglór awards and Manus McGuire & Emily FlackFri Oct 13 2017 - 05:00
Sibling revelry and a legend of song: this week’s trad highlightsThe Ní Chathasaigh sisters, FullSet at Sallins Tradfest, and a celebration of Delia MurphyFri Oct 06 2017 - 05:00
Anna Falkenau and Lena Ullman: I Can Hear You Calling – rich folk mix from German/Swedish duoFri Oct 06 2017 - 00:00
The Ticket: High Trad – this week’s choicesRecommendations for upcoming traditional music events around the countryThu Sept 28 2017 - 17:00
Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers - The Long Awaited Album review: some laughs with your bluegrassSTEVE MARTIN AND THE STEEP CANYON RANGERSThe Long Awaited Album ***Rounder Records/Decca RecordsWed Sept 20 2017 - 15:30
Concerts and concertinas: The week’s best trad gigsHighlights include Cormac Begley and Rushad Eggleston; and a Gerry Whelan tributeThu Sept 14 2017 - 17:00
This Is How We Fly - Foreign Fields review: sounds from an otherwordly universeTHIS IS HOW WE FLYForeign Fields ****Independent releaseWed Sept 13 2017 - 15:30
Luka blooms and Ó Súilleabháin gleams: this week’s trad highlightsA Limerick stop for Luka Bloom; and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is celebrated at NCHThu Sept 07 2017 - 17:00
Ciara Sidine - Unbroken Line review: taking her own sweet timeCIARA SIDINEUnbroken Line ****Independent releaseWed Sept 06 2017 - 15:30
Heavyweight collaborations and a raucous revivalThe best traditional gigs this weekThu Aug 24 2017 - 17:00
Out of Thin Air review: a baroque pipe line to the pastFIACHRA O’REGAN, LAWRENCE O’HEARN & MALO CARVOUOut of Thin Air ****Independent releaseWed Aug 23 2017 - 15:30
Groove in earnest and expect the unexpectedThe best traditional gigs this week range from trad on the prom to a five-piece bandThu Aug 17 2017 - 17:00
Alec Brown – The Stepping Stone review: man with the mellow celloALEC BROWNThe Stepping Stone ***Alec Brown MusicWed Aug 16 2017 - 15:30
Fleadhs, festivals and Gigs in the Garden: this week’s trad gigsStockton’s Wing, Ulaid & Duke Special, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill and Andy IrvineThu Aug 10 2017 - 17:00
Martin Hayes very much at home at Feakle FestivalThis week’s traditional music highlightsThu Aug 03 2017 - 17:00
Eleanor McEvoy – The Thomas Moore Project album review: Highly evocative collectionWed Jul 26 2017 - 15:30
This week’s best shows in traditional musicFancy Footwork in Donegal, Singing Stories in Dublin, Leitrim Tunes in Drumshanbo and Island Summer School on AchillThu Jul 20 2017 - 17:00
