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Live Reviews: Dublin Guitar Quartet Paul Watts Lazybird (The International Bar), Dublin, 12 March 2006This gig served as an album launch for the Dublin Guitar Quartet’s debut album Deleted Pieces, which had just been released a couple of days beforehand on Greyslate Records, and attendance-wise it...
Live Reviews: Caoimhín Ó Raghaillaigh, with Jane Hughes and Lorcan Mac Mathuna Pat Ahern St Brendan’s Church, Bantry, 17 March 2006Outside the confines of the Church of St Brendan the Navigator in Bantry, the populace celebrated the National Feast with the customary mixture of ballads and booze. Inside, Caoimhín Ó Raghaillaigh...
Live Reviews: i-and-e festival Barra Ó Séaghdha Various venues, Dublin / 31 March-1 April 2006
Drawing of John Loughran (1927–87) by Eamonn O'Doherty Drawing of John Loughran (1927–87) by Eamonn O'Doherty Images from the Irish Traditional Music Archive Drawing made 14 July 1977 by artist Eamonn O’Doherty of fiddle-player and raconteur John Loughran in his home in Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone – from the Irish Traditional Music Archive travelling exhibition ‘The Northern Fiddler’.
Not Icons but Jewels Not Icons but Jewels Chris Wood Currently experiencing an upsurge in the popularity of its folk music – termed ‘the second folk revival’ – English society is at the same time attempting to address the issue of national identity. Chris Wood – pioneering singer, fiddle-player and composer, who this year was nominated for four BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including folk singer of the year – is musically at the very heart of what is taking place in English folk music at present. Here, he provides his personal view of English society today and the untapped potential of its traditional music.
A Tradition Flowering A Tradition Flowering Niall Keegan Tradition in the midst of a flowering in Come West Along The Road, a DVD of traditional music from the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
The Sound of Discovery Barra Ó Séaghdha The Festival de Jazz et de Free Music in Mulhouse, France.
Cultúr Bógus na Tíre Seo Breandán Ó hEaghra Is the idea of Irish culture we promote abroad ‘bogus’?

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