New Music Dublin festival breaks fresh ground

Unusual ambience and myriad external intrusions fails to derail eclectic artistry

Awards shows and boutique festivals: This week’s traditional music highlights

Gradam Ceoil winners will take to the stage in Belfast for the second year in a row

The Friel Sisters: Before The Sun – Glasgow girls let their Donegal roots shine

Ensemble Eriu - Stargazer: a genre-busting, spine-tingling collection

Ireland Now: the music that defines today’s Irish nation

In the run-up to St Patrick's Day, Irish Times writers select the acts that represent modern Irishness

Aidan Connolly: Be Off – fiddler leads a very inviting session

Donal Dineen’s Sunken Treasure: Jack Talty & Cormac Begley’s Na Fir Bolg

In the hands of these artists, the deceptively simple concertina is bent and stretched and brought to new heights

Tony MacMahon: Last reel for a reluctant music legend

After some persuasion, MacMahon has finally recorded his magnum opus, Farewell to Music. And I am delighted that my label, Raelach Records, is releasing it

Jack Talty – In Flow album review: concertina renaissance man

Gradam Ceoil showcases the eclectic best of Irish traditional music

From the genius of Máirtín O’Connor and the huge contribution of the Irish Traditional Music Archive to the magpie stylings of Ensemble Ériú, the list of recipients of the annual TG4 awards is impressively diverse

Ensemble Ériu: it’s trad music, but not as we know it

Traditional music is in fine, contemporary hands with Jack Talty and Neil O’Loghlen

Ensemble Ériu