Dublin Made MeNa Píobairí Uilleann (NPU CD 017)Fiddle and uilleann pipes are rightly regarded as one of the classic instrumental combinations in Irish traditional music.
Recorded: Liam O’Connor and Seán McKeon
Dermot McLaughlin
Dermot McLaughlin is a traditional fiddle player. Since 2003 he has been Chief Executive of Temple Bar Cultural Trust and before that (1986-2003) he worked with the Arts Council in a range of management positions, the first of which was Traditional Music Officer. He presents The Raw Bar on RTÉ 1 television.
CD Reviews: Masters of Tradition
RTÉ lyric fm CD117This double CD presents thirty-two tracks performed by forty-two of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians, recorded in concert in 2003-2007 at the Masters of Tradition Festival which takes place annually at Bantry House,.
CD Reviews: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh – Where the One-eyed Man is King
Where the One-eyed Man is KingChassis no.
Letters: Traditional Music and the Arts Council
Dermot McLaughlin replies:Joy Fitzgerald’s point is one that I anticipated in response to my ‘In Safe Hands?’ article and it’s a point that she could/should have made at the time of publication of my ‘Road Map’ article (Nov-Dec...
In Safe Hands?
Dermot McLaughlin discusses traditional music and the role of the Arts Council
CD Reviews: Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh
Inside OutMORCD002This second solo album from Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh reinforces the strong impact that he made back in 2001 with his début The Nervous Man. For his second album Ó Raghallaigh stays close enough to the formula...
CD Reviews: Brenda Keville
The Hop Down, BKCD 205 I had to overhaul some of my fundamental assumptions and prejudices in the last month or so and it’s been a refreshing exercise.
Glimpses of the Fuller Picture
Serenade by Mick McAuley and Winifred Horan and Paul Dooley's Music from the Robert ap Huw Manuscript.
On Going Solo
Recording in traditional music, David Power's My Love is in America and Tim Collins' Dancing on Silver.
The Arts Council and Traditional Music: A Road Map
The recently published Arts Council document on the traditional arts in Ireland - Towards a Policy for the Traditional Arts / I dTreo Bheartas um na hEalaíona Traidisiúnta.
Good Listeners
New albums by The Tap Room Trio (Jesse Smith, Harry Bradley and John Blake) and Mick O'Brien and Caomhín Ó Raghallaigh.
CD Reviews: An Tobar Glé - Neil Mulligan
Neil Mulligan – An Tobar Glé– Shore Records SCD 1049One of the driving influences in the development of traditional music is the process of transmission. Maybe transmission is not always how it looks and feels at first hand – within...
CD Reviews: Kíla - Luna Park
KílaLuna Parkkíla recordsPushing boundaries, wrestling with the form, taking ‘liberties’ with the sacrosanct immutable tradition (mar dheá), fusing/fusion, hybridisation, attitude. These are some of the things that come to...
CD Reviews: Tommy Peoples' Waiting for a Call
Tommy PeoplesWaiting for a CallShanachie (CCF35CD)Tommy Peoples gracefully occupies a prime authoritative position on the top shelf of traditional fiddle players.
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