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CD Reviews: Eliot Grasso – Up Against the Flatirons
Up Against the FlatironsNa Píobairí Uilleann NPUCD014It’s a measure of the strength and depth of Irish traditional music in America that the first in a new series of CDs issued by Na Píobairí Uilleann, entitled The Ace and...
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Live Reviews: Niwel Tsumbu and Clear Sky Ensemble
Spiegeltent, Dublin Fringe Festival / 19 September 2007
Live Reviews: Concorde
Norman Villa Gallery, Salthill, Galway16 September 2007There comes a point where one must ask whether contemporary music is meant to be played or performed. A small standing audience – there were no chairs – in an upstairs gallery room on a Sunday...
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Live Reviews: Masters of Tradition
John Flanagan, Kevin Crawford, Steve Cooney, Martin Hayes, Brian McNamara, Seán Smyth, Oisín MacDiarmada, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dennis Cahill Bantry House, Bantry, Co Cork15-19 August 2007Now in its fifth year, the Masters...
Live Reviews: Music 21: Hugh Tinney / The Thing
NCH, Dublin/4 Dame Lane, Dublin / 28 September 2007
Live Reviews: Piperlink
Jimmy O’Brien-Moran, Emmet Gill, Seán Donnelly & Muireann Nic AmhlaoibhÁras na nGael, Galway29 September 2007Most followers of traditional music, and often the musicians themselves, are unaware of the history of the uilleann or ‘union’...