Tommy Peoples

The Bothy Band: Traditional music’s most influential group blaze back after four decades

The revolutionary group, reunited for the making of a documentary, now plan to perform a series of shows in Belfast and Dublin

Sat Feb 10 2024 - 05:15

Bríd Harper: Inis – tight-knit tunes bound together with skill

The fiddle player is on top form here, backed up by a fine array of musical talent

Fri Mar 25 2022 - 05:00

Anna Burns among new members elected to Aosdána

Affiliation of creative artists in Ireland elects six new people to vacant positions

Fri Apr 05 2019 - 22:44

RIP: Famous names we said goodbye to in 2018

From Dolores O’Riordan and Myrtle Allen to Stephen Hawking and Aretha Franklin

Wed Dec 26 2018 - 06:00

A piping hot 2018 for trad

Year in Culture Review: Great albums, the rise of women and the loss of visionaries

Sat Dec 08 2018 - 05:00

President Higgins pays tribute to musician Tommy Peoples

Award-winning Donegal-born fiddle player, composer and Bothy Band member dies at 70

Sun Aug 05 2018 - 11:34

This Album Changed My Life: Tommy Peoples & Paul Brady – The High Part of the Road (1976)

Sam Amidon on a folk inspiration that changed his musicianship

Sat May 26 2018 - 05:00

Clare Memory Orchestra: A marriage of classical and trad loses the sheet music

Dave Flynn has found an innovative way to blend his two musical loves

Thu Jul 16 2015 - 01:00

Trad’s slow-burning winter warmer

Scoil Gheimhridh Frankie Kennedy has been drawing students from around the world for two decades. Now the winter school’s driving forces, who include Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, are handing on the baton

Sat Dec 14 2013 - 01:00

Sam Amidon – an old folk head on young shoulders

Vermont native Sam Amidon explains how he went from office typist to folk revivalist - and how he loves to jam with Martin Hayes on the Lower East Side

Fri Oct 25 2013 - 00:00