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The internationally-renowned uilleann piper and maker Leo Rowsome has been honoured by a Dublin City Council commemorative plaque on the street where he lived and worked until his death in 1970. Born into a piping family in Harold’s Cross, Leo Rowsome was the third generation of an unbroken line of uilleann pipers, who went on […]
Willie Clancy was born into a musical family in Miltown Malbay, Co Clare. His parents both sang and played concertina, and his father also played the flute. Clancy’s father had been heavily influenced by local blind piper Garret Barry. Willie started playing the whistle at age 5, and later took up the flute. He first […]
Carmel Gunning is one of Ireland’s most accomplished and well-known traditional musicians, a virtuoso tin whistle and flute player, and a renowned singer and composer. She has also spent a life-time teaching traditional music, particularly in the uptempo, lifty, exciting Sligo style formed from that county’s immense tapestry of culture and tradition. I’ve had the […]
Two highlights of trad every year are the Patrick O’Keefe Festival in the heart of Sliabh Luachra, and Oireachtas na Gaeilge which celebrates the most beautiful of Irish singing, amhránaÃocht ar an sean-nós, in a weekend of competitions and recitals each year. This year, along with everything else in these beleaguered times, both festivals are taking place […]
With most festivals and fleadhs cancelled for the summer, musicians and performers are coming up with novel ideas to keep music going online. At the weekend, thousands took part in the first-ever online Céilà in the Kitchen where families or socially-distant friends posted videos on Facebook and elsewhere of their celebration of Irish traditional music and […]
NO, its not Stephen’s Green or Eyre Square or even Milltown Malbay. This session of traditional Irish music is taking place in Japan. The video was posted by the Irish Embassy in Japan who spotted the musicians playing a lively set of tunes which on a lunchtime stroll in Yoyogi Park in the capital. “On lunchtime […]
Willie Clancy was born into a musical family in Miltown Malbay, Co Clare. His parents both sang and played concertina, and his father also played the flute. Clancy’s father had been heavily influenced by local blind piper Garret Barry. Willie started playing the whistle at age 5, and later took up the flute. He first […]
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