The Bothy Band: Traditional music’s most influential group blaze back after four decades
The revolutionary group, reunited for the making of a documentary, now plan to perform a series of shows in Belfast and Dublin
Tommy Peoples
Bríd Harper: Inis – tight-knit tunes bound together with skill
The fiddle player is on top form here, backed up by a fine array of musical talent
Anna Burns among new members elected to Aosdána
Affiliation of creative artists in Ireland elects six new people to vacant positions
RIP: Famous names we said goodbye to in 2018
From Dolores O’Riordan and Myrtle Allen to Stephen Hawking and Aretha Franklin
A piping hot 2018 for trad
Year in Culture Review: Great albums, the rise of women and the loss of visionaries
President Higgins pays tribute to musician Tommy Peoples
Award-winning Donegal-born fiddle player, composer and Bothy Band member dies at 70
This Album Changed My Life: Tommy Peoples & Paul Brady – The High Part of the Road (1976)
Sam Amidon on a folk inspiration that changed his musicianship
Clare Memory Orchestra: A marriage of classical and trad loses the sheet music
Dave Flynn has found an innovative way to blend his two musical loves
Trad’s slow-burning winter warmer
Scoil Gheimhridh Frankie Kennedy has been drawing students from around the world for two decades. Now the winter school’s driving forces, who include Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, are handing on the baton
Sam Amidon – an old folk head on young shoulders
Vermont native Sam Amidon explains how he went from office typist to folk revivalist - and how he loves to jam with Martin Hayes on the Lower East Side
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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