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: Emer Kenny
Tag: Irish folk music
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…
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: 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…
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: Derek Bell
A native of Belfast (born October 21, 1935), Derek Bell was The Chieftains‘ virtuoso harpist who originally performed with the Belfast Symphony Orchestra. He also…
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.…