Ciaran Carson
29 February 2012
Reading the Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Ciaran Carson reflects on the many ways traditional music has changed in recent decades, but also how much it has stayed the same.
1 April 2010
"Memory is more of a narrative, a plausible story, than an exact recording of events or circumstances", finds Ciaran Carson in the thirteenth article of his series on traditional music.
1 February 2010
He was a cantankerous eccentric who stressed that the Irish language and music were inseparable. Richard Henebry should not be forgotten, writes Ciaran Carson
1 December 2009
How can musicians that are so eminent in their own genre fail to understand the conventions of another?
1 October 2009
A tune that was once an ordeal begins to mesmerise Ciaran Carson again; and what Frankie Gavin couldn’t teach Yehudi Menuhin
1 August 2009
In the latest instalment in his traditional music column, Ciaran Carson remembers how we was driven by music when he had no car...
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