Manus McGuire: The Copperplate Sessions review – a fiddler with a golden touchWed Nov 07 2018 - 05:00
Celebrating women in music: this week’s traditional highlightsEleanor McEvoy heads a joyful line-up at NCH. Plus: Achill International Harp FestivalSat Oct 27 2018 - 03:00
Making memories in Cork: this week’s traditional music highlightsCork Folk Festival, Dave Flynn’s Irish Memory Orchestra, Landless and Séamus BegleySat Oct 06 2018 - 03:00
Trad gigs to see this week, from Na Píobairí Uilleann to BeogaDesi Wilkinson, and Dave Flynn’s Irish Memory Orchestra, round off our highlightsSat Sept 29 2018 - 03:00
Andy Irvine: ‘Being loved may be an important part of my psyche’RTÉ Radio 1 is launching its inaugural Folk Music Awards, and the recipient of its first Lifetime Achievement Award is a hugely loved veteran who’s earned his stripesThu Sept 20 2018 - 05:00
Slow Moving Clouds: Starfall review – experimental roots trio shoot for the starsThu Sept 20 2018 - 05:00
Three’s a Cloud: this week’s must-see traditional music gigsSlow Moving Clouds are at the Quiet Lights Festival in Cork; Rising Tides is in DublinSat Sept 08 2018 - 03:00
Susan McKeown in Dún Laoghaire: this week’s trad highlightsThe Grammy award-winner performs songs inspired by the Forty Foot and Killiney HillSat Sept 01 2018 - 03:00
Gig of the Week: Masters of Tradition in BantryMartin Hayes curates an intimate festival featuring a host of trad players showing their mastery of the craft, and a conversation with west Cork resident Jeremy IronsSat Aug 18 2018 - 05:00
Festival fever: This week’s best traditional music gigsFeakle Festival, Festival of Early Irish Harp in Kilkenny and An Appalachian GatheringSat Aug 11 2018 - 03:00
Four of the best traditional music concerts in Ireland this weekCara Dillon and Gráinne Holland perform at Clonard while Luka Bloom is on home soil in ClareSat Aug 04 2018 - 03:30
The best traditional music concerts to see in Ireland this weekFrom Laois Trad Summer School to Birds of Chicago in DublinSat Jul 21 2018 - 05:00
Four traditional music concerts to see in Ireland this weekTrad supergroup Ushers Island, with Dónal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Paddy Glackin, Michael McGoldrick and John Doyle, play Seamus Ennis CentreSat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
Five traditional music concerts to catchWillie Clancy Summer School and Earagail Arts Festival among the highlightsSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
The five best traditional music gigs around Ireland this weekAn Irish harp festival, Wood Quay Summer Sessions and some fine musical arrangementsSat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
Four great traditional music gigs in Ireland this weekSharon Shannon, Poetry Ireland, An Góilín Singers and a talented gathering in GalwaySat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
‘Nobody gets rich from folk music, which is a great leveller’Doolin Folk Festival brings Persian, Irish, Swedish and American folk sounds togetherMon Jun 11 2018 - 05:00
From Scullion to An Góilín: the best trad music this weekPlus the Michael Dwyer Festival, traditional music at its most intimateSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Best trad gigs: From No Crows to the Michael Dwyer FestivalGreenshine and Mikie Smyth round off our highlights list for the coming weekSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
Mick Hanly and Donal Lunny on the move: this week’s traditional highlightsFirst outing as a duo for the folk/trad stalwarts and former Moving Hearts bandmatesSat May 26 2018 - 05:00
This week’s best traditional gigs: including Mick Hanly and Dónal LunnyFor fun – and artistry – concertina king Cormac Begley and acrobat Rushad EgglestonSat May 12 2018 - 05:00
Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny, and Heidi Talbot, Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich, John McCusker and Paul Meehan: this week’s best traditional gigsTommy and Saundra O’Sullivan, and Cormac Begley and Rushad Eggleston, are other highlights of the next seven daysSat May 05 2018 - 05:00
Pick of the week’s traditional gigsSarah McQuaid gets down and dangerous at the Grand Social while Brona McVittie takes a walk on the wild side at the DC Music ClubSat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
High-octane to unplugged: the best in this week’s traditional musicBéal and Moxie play as part of MusicTown; Cormac Begley and Liam O’Connor collaborateSat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
Scullion and Iarla Ó Lionáird’s alternative Sunday service: the best trad music this weekActor Patrick Bergin teams up with American singer/songwriter Hank Wedel and Ronán Ó Snodaigh for a night of raucous merrymakingSat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
All-star lineup in Vicar Street, Gatehouse in Roscommon and intimate John Spillane show: the best trad music this weekAnnual fundraiser in aid of Gaelscoil Lios na nÓg attracts a customarily high calibre range of artistsMon Apr 09 2018 - 12:45
Irish trad music’s ‘lovely girls’ want to talk gender balanceFair Plé aims to improve the lot of women in a blatantly male-dominated music sceneMon Apr 09 2018 - 05:00
Peadar Ó Riada, Kevin Doherty, Ciarán Tourish and Dermot Byrne: the best trad music this week‘Fianna Éireann’ focuses on the story of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the FiannaSat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
The best traditional music this week – A world premiere at the NCHTradfest in Kilkenny, highly original sean nos singer and Seamus Creagh rememberedSat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
‘Sweeney’ – the result of a series of serendipitous events‘I was always mindful that this is a song cycle,’ says composer Neil Martin of adapting Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Sweeney’s Astray’ for songThu Mar 15 2018 - 05:00
Weekend in West Cork with Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh: the best trad music this weekAlso: Armagh Pipers Club, Old Hannah, and History Ireland Hedge School in KilkennySat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Luka Bloom returns: The best trad music this weekSeachtain na Gaeilge celebrated in Dundalk, and humour and wit in the Teachers’ Club with Brian O’RourkeSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
The Gloaming: Live at the NCH review – capturing their mesmerising essenceLatest offering an amalgam of 17 sold-out National Concert Hall showsFri Mar 02 2018 - 05:00
Gathering Traditional Festival, Bríd Harper – the best trad music this weekThe Gathering Festival boasts an enviable programme while Sharon Mannion has a theatrical take on the much maligned boxSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
Tim Edey, Laoise Kelly & Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn: the week’s best traditional musicMary Corcoran, Aoife O’Connor and Majella O’Beirne play ‘Twas Down by Anna Liffey’ at The Clé Club, Liberty HallSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
From Waterville in Kerry to Waterfront in Belfast: the best trad music this weekÉigse na Brídeoige takes a maritime theme; Gradam Cheoil Traditional Music Awards cherishes the ladies; White Raven brings Irish traditional and medieval song togetherSat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Piping hot performances: The best trad music this weekThe Sound of Ireland celebrates uileann pipes at the Abbey. Plus: Tradfest takes a bow, Féile na Tána kicks off in Carlingford, and Brendan McCreanor curates Slow SessionsFri Jan 26 2018 - 06:00
The Friel Sisters: Before The Sun – Glasgow girls let their Donegal roots shineFri Jan 26 2018 - 05:00
Tradfest 2018 puts female artists centre stageTradfest 2018: Everything you need to know - it promises an eclectic mix, with performances from Martha Wainwright, Shirley Collins, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill and many moreTue Jan 23 2018 - 05:00
The best trad music this week: Lúnasa, David Power, Tríona Marshall and moreIrish Concertina Ensemble and a stellar line-up for Armagh Pipers Club fundraiserFri Jan 19 2018 - 06:00
Trad music highlights of the weekAn ensemble with a difference, a tasty teatime session and sublimely subtle harpingFri Jan 12 2018 - 06:00
The best trad music this week: Kilfenora Céilí Band and Sharon ShannonAlso, a foursome from Arcady, Altan, Dervish and Solas start their short tour in DublinFri Jan 05 2018 - 06:00
