Tell Us About Your Traditional Music Session

Tell Us About Your Traditional Music Session

The Journal of Music is collecting information about Irish traditional music sessions, to compile a discerning guide to sessions around the country.

Bill Whelan (banjo), Dermy Diamond (fiddle) and friends at the Cobblestone bar, Dublin

Longtime readers of The Journal of Music will remember our ‘Traditional Music Sessions’ feature, which we ran for many years in the back pages of the magazine. The guide provided detailed information on Irish traditional music sessions around Ireland and was an invaluable resource for players as well as listeners.

We’d like to reinstate this feature, but traditional music sessions come and go, and their personnel change — so our list is in need of some maintenance. In order to have the most comprehensive overview of what’s happening right across Ireland (or, indeed, abroad), we’re asking for readers to send in information on their local session. 

So if you attend traditional music sessions, whether you go along to play or just to listen, we’d like to hear from you. The information we’d like to receive includes basic information about each session, such as the day, start time and venue, but also the names and instruments of any regular players. The more you can tell us the better.

Please fill out the form below with as much information as possible. You can email us at editor [at] journalofmusic.com if you have any questions.

Published on 14 March 2012

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