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Live Reviews: Iarla Ó Lionáird / Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill Barra Ó Séaghdha ESB Beo Celtic Music Festival, NCH, Dublin / 5 August 2006
Live Reviews: Debashish Bhattacharya Barra Ó Séaghdha (chaturangi – 22-string guitar) / Farmleigh Salon Series (programmed by Improvised Music Company), Farmleigh, Castleknock, Dublin, 17 July 2006
The group Seachtar, 1974 The group Seachtar, 1974 Images from the Irish Traditional Music Archive The group Seachtar, which within a year or two and with some change of personnel would become internationally famous as the Bothy Band.
Ó Riada's Vision Ó Riada's Vision Iarla Ó Lionáird As a child, singer Iarla Ó Lionáird witnessed the extraordinary impact that Seán Ó Riada had on Cúil Aodha in the Irish-speaking area of Cork in the 1960s. On the 75th anniversary of Ó Riada's birth, Ó Lionáird teases out the composer's vision as represented by the choir he founded, and the song the choir constructed in the wake of Ó Riada's death – 'Sé Mo Laoch, Mo Ghile Mear...', the 'laoch' (hero) representing Ó Riada himself...
On the naming of things John McLachlan John McLachlan looks at the significance and origins of musical titles.
MC Hill Barra Ó Séaghdha The Bray Jazz Festival 2006.
Piping Aces Piping Aces Toner Quinn Na Píobairí Uilleann's 39th Anual Tionól, which took place in Dublin.
Music at hi-res Terry Moylan Notes from the Heart by Mick, Louise & Michelle Mulcahy and Buílle by Niall and Caoimhín Vallely and Paul Meehan.
‘Ag Tarraingt as an Dúchas’ Ciarán Ó Con Cheanainn Micheál Ó Conghaile agus Cló Iar-Chonnachta.
Hard Core Values Michael Quinn The Sonorities Festival 2006.

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