New Releases: Traditional and Folk Music

A round-up of new and recent traditional and folk music releases.

Published on 25 April 2018

Room for Everyone

In the final review from our Journal of Music/Clare County Council Music Writer Mentoring Scheme, Deirdre Clare writes about the latest recording from one of Clare's most renowned traditional musicians.

Deirdre Clare

Published on 28 February 2018

Deirdre Clare is a piano player and singer and writes her own material, both classical and contemporary folk. Her piece for viola and tape, 'Fite Fuaite', was chosen by Roger Doyle to be included in a series of contemporary music concerts and she has recently written music for Barry Casey’s play, 'Another August'. Deirdre teaches piano at Coole Music in Gort.

Arts Council Commits €40k to ‘high-profile, national platform for traditional artists’

Partnership with National Concert Hall to produce third edition of 'Tradition Now'.

Published on 9 May 2017

NCH Announces Martin Hayes Residency for 2017/18 Season

Three-concert residency announced alongside details of the International and Perspectives series.

Anna Murray

Published on 12 April 2017

Anna Murray is Assistant Editor of The Journal of Music. Her website is www.annamurraymusic.com.

New Martin Hayes Quartet to Open Masters of Tradition

Quartet developed as part of Hayes residency at the University of Limerick.

Published on 7 August 2016

Martin Hayes Appointed as Inaugural Irish World Academy Artist

Three-year appointment involves creative projects and workshops.

Published on 29 January 2016

Hayes and Cahill's Tour of Intimate Venues

12-date tour begins in Dún Laoghaire on 7 November.

Published on 13 October 2015

A Way In to India

How can musicians from other cultures find a way in to Indian music? That was the challenge that faced Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill and Matthew Noone when they recently travelled to India for a series of performances.

Matthew Noone

Published on 5 May 2015

Matthew Noone has studied North Indian classical music on sarode with Sougata Roy Chowdhury from Kolkata and K. Sridhar in the UK. He is currently undertaking a PhD through Arts Practice in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in the University of Limerick and is an Irish Research Council scholar.

Music and the Betrayal of Ireland

A musical response to crisis.

Toner Quinn

Published on 30 January 2014

Toner Quinn is Editor of The Journal of Music.

Martin Hayes to Open Steeple Sessions

Published on 23 April 2013

Just Cooney

With personal perspectives from Martin Hayes, Christy Moore, Tony MacMahon, Luka Bloom and Iarla Ó Lionáird, Paul O'Connor attempts to take in the vista-like contribution that the enigmatic Steve Cooney has made to Irish traditional mu

Paul O'Connor

Published on 18 September 2012

Twenty-Fifth Feakle Festival

Martin Hayes features centrally in this year's Feakle Festival, playing in Triúr, with Dennis Cahill, possibly with the Tulla Céilí Band, and as the subject of a feature-length documentary called Natural Grace.

The Journal Of Music

Published on 24 July 2012

Masters of Tradition 2012

Guitar players Dennis Cahill, John Doyle, and Steve Cooney are among the performers playing at the West Cork Music Masters of Tradition festival in Bantry House next month.

The Journal Of Music

Published on 23 July 2012

Lá Gaelach And Traidphicnic In Galway

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 Journal Of Music

Published on 2 July 2012

Arís

Triúr Arís is the second album from the trio of Peadar Ó Riada, Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, featuring twenty new pieces composed by Ó Riada, and dedicated to the memory of Muiris Ó Rócháin.

The Journal Of Music

Published on 29 May 2012

Iconic Fiddlers

One of the non-music events taking place during the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention is an exhibition of paintings of famous living fiddlers, including Martin Hayes, Nancy Kerr, and Ado Barker, called Fiddle Icons.

The Journal Of Music

Published on 22 May 2012

Dublin Dance Festival 2012

The festival brings together contemporary movement and music from across Europe.

The Journal Of Music

Published on 10 May 2012

A Very Irish Form?

The director Dónal Ó Céilleachair discusses his documentary about the collaboration of Peadar Ó Riada, Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, which is to be broadcast next week on RTÉ One.

The Journal Of Music

Published on 30 March 2012

Martin Hayes Master Class at Clare Institute for Traditional Studies

This is number two in a new series of weekend master classes for advanced level students organised by Áras Oidhreacht an Chláir, as part of a broader educational programme they are developing.

The Journal Of Music

Published on 14 March 2012

New CD based on Speech Patterns of Musicians

Speech Project is a live show and now an album of new compositions by fiddle player Gerry Diver based on original recordings of Shane MacGowan, Damien Dempsey, Christy Moore, Martin Hayes and Danny Meehan talking to Diver, and on archive in

Paul O'Connor

Published on 1 February 2012

Rare Performance at the Abbey Theatre

3/Triúr, the group comprising Peadar Ó Riada, Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, will give perform at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on Sunday, 12 February.

The Journal Of Music

Published on 18 January 2012

A Step Between Worlds

Was the Gloaming — the new venture of Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Iarla Ó Lionáird and Thomas Bartlett — to be a well-intentioned experiment, or did it amount to something more promising?

Paul O'Connor

Published on 26 August 2011

Martin Hayes and the Tradition

In 2008, fiddle player Martin Hayes received the TG4 Gradam Ceoil award. Toner Quinn explores the work of an artist who has walked new ground in traditional music.

Toner Quinn

Published on 1 March 2008