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…
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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…
View More Artist Profiles: Fintan VallelyArtist 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…
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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…
View More Artist Profiles: Emer KennyArtist 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…
View More Artist Profiles: Eamonn CurranArtist 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…
View More Artist Profiles: DublinersArtist 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…
View More Artist Profiles: DordánArtist 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…
View More Artist Profiles: Donal LunnyArtist Profiles: Donal Clancy
Donal Clancy was born in Canada in 1975 and later moved to Ireland. He has been involved with the best bands in Irish music, starting…
View More Artist Profiles: Donal ClancyArtist 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…
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