Frances Black began her career performing alongside her siblings in the Black Family Band. Frances then moved on to sing with Arcady in the late…
Artist Profiles: Frances Black
Author: Angel Romero
Angel Romero y Ruiz has dedicated his life to musical exploration. His efforts included the creation of two online portals, worldmusiccentral.org and musicasdelmundo.com. In addition, Angel is the co-founder of the Transglobal World Music Chart, a panel of world music DJs and writers that celebrates global sounds. Furthermore, he delved into the record business, producing world music studio albums and compilations. His works have appeared on Alula Records, Ellipsis Arts, Indígena Records and Music of the World.
Artist Profiles: Four Men and a Dog
Cathal Hayden, Kevin Doherty, Gino Lupari and Gerry O’Connor are Four Men and a Dog. These four extremely talented men come from a variety of…
Artist Profiles: Fintan Vallely
All the way from Moy in Co. Armagh, Fintan is a flute player, uilleann piper and writer of satirical songs. Currently lecturer on Traditional Music…
Artist Profiles: Emer Mayock
Emer Mayock grew up in County Mayo and began to play traditional music at an early age. She was influenced greatly by her brothers and…
Artist Profiles: Emer Kenny
Emer Kenny started playing harp at the age of nine. While still in her teens, she won an Alfred Byte Scholarship to study composition and…
Artist Profiles: Eamonn Curran
Eamonn Curran from Monaghan was the first uilleann pipe pupil in the Armagh Pipers club in the late 1960s where he was also taught by…
Artist Profiles: Dubliners
At the beginning of Ieland’s “ballad boom,” in the early 1960s when the Clancy Brothers made “folk songs” a meaningful category that ordinary people could…
A Tiempo Real, An Exceptional Collection of Folk Songs from Castilla-La Mancha
Vigüela – A Tiempo Real – A New Take on Spanish Tradition (ARC Music, 2018) A Tiempo Real – A New Take on Spanish Tradition…
Artist Profiles: Dordán
In 1990 three women from County Galway performed a concert at the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Galway where with no intention of forming a long-standing…
Artist Profiles: Donal Lunny
Donal Lunny has been at the cutting edge of the evolution of Irish music for almost thirty years and is generally regarded as having been…