Artist Profiles: Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh was born and raised in the Donegal Gaeltacht of Gaoth Dobhair. Her first language was Irish, and from her earliest years she…
Samba Touré Tops the September 2018 Transglobal World Music Chart
Wande (The Beloved), the album by Malian musician Samba Toure tops the Transglobal World Music Chart in September 2018. “We had a totally different album…
Artist Profiles: Frankie Gavin
Frankie Gavin’s virtuosic and fiery fiddle playing has inspired and influenced players of traditional music throughout the world. He is equally compelling as a solo…
Artist Profiles: Frances Black
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: 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…