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: Eamonn Curran
Tag: Ireland
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…
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…
Artist Profiles: Dolores Keane
Dolores Keane was born in Caherlistrane, Co. Galway in the west of Ireland. She was raised from the age of four in her grandmother’s house…
Artist Profiles: Dermot Byrne
Dermot Byrne, a native of Donegal, guested on two Altan albums, The Red Crow and Island Angel before joining the band in 1994. Dermot had…
Artist Profiles: De Dannan
De Dannan is one of the most famous traditional Irish groups of the recent past. Formed in 1974 in the Irish-speaking area of Spiddal, Co.…
Artist Profiles: Davy Spillane
Davy Spillane, of County Clare, Ireland, plays the uilleann pipes, an unusual Celtic bagpipe whose bellows are held under the arms and inflated by wing-like…
Artist Profiles: David Munnelly
With their unique style of playing, as wild and free as the rugged West Coast of Ireland, The David Munnelly Band is making waves on…
Artist Profiles: Danú
Danú is an Irish traditional music group based in an Rinn/Ring, Co. Waterford, Ireland, made up of seven traditional musicians, hailing from counties Waterford, Dublin,…