Singer-songwriter Glen Hansard leads the annual Busk near Dublin's Grafton Street on Christmas Eve, From Notify to Ani DiFranco: The top five trad/folk albums of 2024 The best Christmas playlist, according to the pros US backer pledges to match donations to Irish Traditi...
The Back to Rockville blog is reporting the following music & dance acts as confirmed for the 2016 Labor Day Weekend Irishfest at Crown Center: • We Banjo 3 • Tupelo • The Elders • Derek Warfield • Larry Kirwan • The High Kings • The Young Folk • Gaelic Storm • ...
A reminder of pre-Covid days (above, in Levis’ Bar) – folk legend Martin McCarthy (now aged 81) was a regular at the Ballydehob Festival. There’s some good ‘new blood’ there this year, and the launch of an album of the bestSliabh Luachramusic from Pat Flemingwith Maria Cotter,...
Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Some Things Break – Tender folk pop riddled with eye-rolling lyrical platitudes Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili: Conflict, escape, a family split by war – and we’re still on the first page Hospital Verses: A brilliant album, offering us a slice of...
“Merrimac” is among the tracks on which Broaders plays whistle; he also adds keyboards and uilleann pipes to his luggage, the latter most strikingly on “The Holland Handkerchief,” which Broaders learned from the singing of Frank Harte, an influential figure for many in the Irish folk ...
Now he calls his music Sci F’Irish. It fuses traditional Irish drinking songs with lyrics inspired by pop culture. These are songs for working class folk Educated by the past and filled with hopes and dreams of a better tomorrow.
Another interviewee reported that: Last year we helped some folk who were bogged in the sand right at the end of the road in the middle of nowhere. The wife just started calling the various channels explaining that they were bogged and asking whether there was anyone out there….We went ...
Now he calls his music Sci F’Irish. It fuses traditional Irish drinking songs with lyrics inspired by pop culture. These are songs for working class folk Educated by the past and filled with hopes and dreams of a better tomorrow.
I sat down to browse through the papers. Read had featured poetry and excerpts from novels alongside news about the world, about travel, and about the fairy folk who were wreaking havoc on local horse barns and the neighbors’ crops. All the while, a man sat across from me, reading old...
This EP screams experience, a fined craft for traditional Celtic folk metal and a powerful skill and writing very soothing, involved tracks. Opening with the fantastic ‘B141’, it doesn’t immediately click that these guys are an instrumental band. Unlike some, they don’t go down the old...