Running throughout the day on 5 July, Lá Gaelach at the Global Village during the Volvo Ocean Race features, among many others, tin whistle player Nóirín Ní Shúilleabháin joined by her brothers Seán and Frankie Gavin.

The Baltimore Fiddle Fair is twenty years old this year, and is celebrating its popularity with musicians with an extended programme made up of some of their favourite acts from down the years.

News of Altan's latest studio album, the Temple Bar Trad Fest line-up and concerts featuring Tommy Peoples, Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich, Laoise Kelly, Kevin Burke, Paddy Keenan, Alan Burke and Guidewires.

There will be a launch event for the 2011 School presented by the Liffey Banks Sessions at 8pm on 29 November in the Grand Social, featuring Altan and guests Fidil, Steve Cooney, Maighréad and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich, a

A new generation of musicians and singers is pulling the English folk scene alongside its Irish and Scottish neighbours, pointing to a new era of collaboration – and perhaps even the healing of old wounds, writes Toner Quinn