With Shared Notes, Martin Hayes has written an engrossing book that illuminates his life-long musical purpose, where his music fits in the multi-faceted world of Irish traditional music, and how he overcame the bumps in the road along that journey.
Featuring Andy Cutting, Ríoghnach Connolly & Ellis Davis, Rosie Hood and more, Locations is the result of the efforts of three Liverpool students who drove across the North of England in a red Corsa filled with audio and film equipment to record six musical combinations in six different locations.
Mick O’Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain return with a second recording of music collected by James Goodman. ‘More Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts’ has the intimacy and warmth of a pub session.
Diana Jones’ ‘Song to a Refugee’ engenders empathy with those forced to flee, while at its heart, there is a deep compassion that will stop you in your tracks.
In part 2 of the story of Michael McGoldrick’s “Fused” we look at its influence and talk to Julie Fowlis, Duncan Chisholm, Jarlath Henderson, Damien O’Kane and more.
In celebration of Michael McGoldrick’s ‘Fused’ and its 20th Anniversary, we explore the making and influence of a ‘ground-breaking’ album in a special two-part feature including exclusive interviews and more.
Recorded live at Celtic Connections in 2008, ‘Waterman’s Live EP’ offers a glimpse of the magic that takes place when Michael McGoldrick and his band get together. Simply breathtaking.
With a bonus opening by Smith and McClennan, Dirk Powell’s album launch at Celtic Connections had a warm informal back-porch feel, as if Dirk and his transatlantic band were playing as much for their own fun as for ours.
20 years on, Michael McGoldrick and his band return to Celtic Connections to perform Fused, locked into the groove, they stayed there like they’d never been away from the Old Fruit Market in Glasgow. Plus Michael talks us through the album, track-by-track.
Iris DeMent and Pieta Brown made for a very welcome addition to the Celtic Connections programme. There was clearly plenty of Iris DeMent fans present among the enthusiastic audience who were treated to an exceptional evening featuring some special guests musicians.
That Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway and John Mc Intyre are on a bill alongside Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn says a lot about the riches that this winter Festival has to offer. A wondrous evening in the charming surroundings of Glasgow City Halls.
The Manchester Folk Festival which incorporated this year’s BBC Folk Awards was an undoubted success and Manchester more than warrants a folk music showcase of this kind that continues to grow and develop.
