Máirtin O’Connor began playing the accordion at the age of nine, and his remarkable career has seen him as a member of many of traditional…
Artist Profiles: Máirtin O’Connor
Tag: Irish folk music
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…
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…