Niall Keegan
8 July 2011
Irish harp music has evolved and diversified in recent history – now it ranges from the pub session to historical reconstructions and new-age airs.
1 April 2010
Having read Dáithí Kearney’s response to my article ‘Let Go of the Language of the Past’ in the Dec/Jan issue, I feel I should
respond and clarify my position. I agree that we
can and must seek example and inspiration...
1 December 2009
The language we use around traditional music isn’t about making new music but about old music. We are judging today’s traditional music on the basis of what we imagine happened in the past, restricting the creative freedom of today’s artists. If the traditional arts are to flourish in the future, we have to start challenging the language of a past agenda.
1 October 2009
The Pleasures of Hope: Flute Music from Belfast and Beyond, (HBMC09)
1 August 2009
Buille 2Crow Vallely Music, CVCD0003This recording from two brothers forming a Cork outpost of the Armagh artistic dynasty is the second recording of the Buille ensemble. The recording is very much rooted in the compositions of the senior of the two brothers,...
1 August 2009
The Crooked Picture, A Selection of Original Irish MusicSPCD001It would not be too inaccurate, if a little ungenerous, to say that band recordings of traditional Irish music tend to feature virtuosic boys showing off their rolls with middle-aged tunes and...
1 June 2009
The Making of Irish Traditional MusicHelen O’SheaCork University Press (2008)One of the duties of musicology is that it must look at the way we structure our musical practice – socially, conceptually, culturally and musically (if you can really...
1 April 2009
The Hare’s Corner – Cúinne an Ghiorria Plateau RecordsI should have realised from the e-mail from the editor of the Journal of Music asking if I would be interested in reviewing Colm Mac Con Iomaire’s new CD of ‘instrumental...
1 April 2009
The TempestNa Píobairí Uileann (NPU CD 016) This album from Belfast-born uilleann piper Robbie Hannan is the third in The Ace and Deuce of Piping series of recordings, the first two being by Eliot Grasso and Emmett Gill. This album is of solo...
1 September 2008
Nil gar ann! – Traditional Fiddle Music from Donegal – Played by Frank Cassidy (and in duet with John Doherty)Cairdeas na bhFídléirí CNF005This CD of a legendary fiddler is part of a modern obsession with historical recordings...
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