Irish Fiddle Music clarebannerman 2022-11-04 | One of our greatest Irish Fiddle Players ..Maurice Lennon from County Leitrim. The Belltable Waltz, followed by masterful playing on The Humours of Tulla and The Bucks of Oranmore.
Ceol Mo Chroí clarebannerman 2022-09-18 | Clé Club , Dublin . Gay McKeon Uilleann Pipes / Seán Keane Fiddle / Mary Corcoran Piano
Sean Nós Dancing clarebannerman 2022-09-14 | All Ireland Under 18 Champion Sean Nós Dancer Conor Fennell of Kilrush, County Clare.
The Clé Club clarebannerman 2022-09-10 | An ceol is fearr in san domhan. The tunes our fathers loved. Selection of reels.
The Pure Drop clarebannerman 2022-09-09 | Gay McKeon Pipes, Seán Keane Fiddle, Mary Corcoran @ The Clé Club, Dublin. Outstanding musicians..
Sean Nós Dancing ~ County Clare clarebannerman 2022-08-30 | Seán Browne from Cree, County Clare dancing two great old reels at Keane's Bar, Carrigaholt, County Clare. "Up The Banner"
Mad Irish Trad Session clarebannerman 2022-07-07 | Recorded in a pub in Miltown Malbay, County Clare during The Willie Clancy Traditional Music Festival 2022.
Willie Clancy Week 2022... The Lights of Rosslare Harbour clarebannerman 2022-07-07 | Singing session in a pub in Miltown Malbay, County Clare. (Armada Hotel, Spanish Point). The singer is Billy O'Brien from County Wexford.
West Clare Set Dancers clarebannerman 2022-03-06 | Frankie Gavin (Fiddle) Noel Hill (Concertina) Tony McMahon (Accordion).Recorded in 1997 @ The Crosses of Annagh Pub outsiside Miltown Malbay, County Clare during the Willie Clancy Summer School. All the set dancers are from the local area of West Clare...
Cork Opera House Session clarebannerman 2021-12-02 | Brian McGrath Banjo, Cathal Hayden Banjo and Steve Cooney Guitar ...year 2000.Jig: Old Joe's and Port Chúil Aodha...Reel: Roaring Mary.
Dan Connells Pub, Knockagree, clarebannerman 2021-11-26 | Sliabh Luachra Polkas played for a set. Musicians led by the great Johnny O'Leary (Box Player) R.I.P. & Friends from 1996.
Come Into The Kitchen clarebannerman 2021-10-24 | The Connolly Brothers from County Clare play a jig called "Come Into The Kitchen" composed by Damien (Box Player) and accompanied on Piano by his brother Colman.
Sean Ryan Tin Whistle with American Multi Instrumentalist Dom Flemons on the Bones.. clarebannerman 2021-08-11 | One of the greatest traditional whistle players in Ireland Seán Ryan entertains some visitors at his castle in County Offaly Ireland. Leap Castle is famous for it's Spirits/Ghosts...Seán explains here how they appear etc...youtu.be/hcmPaFfClg0
Irish Flute & Bodhrán clarebannerman 2021-08-01 | Harry Bradley/Flute - Séamus O'Kane/BodhránThe Sligo reel / Boneparte Crossing The Rhine from 2001.
North of Ireland Session clarebannerman 2021-07-19 | Bríd Harpur (Fiddle), Cathal Hayden (Banjo), Stephen Heyden (Fiddle), Arty McGlynn R.I.P. (Guitar), Dermot Byrne (Accordion).The Rose in the Heather, The Rambler, Twilight in Portroe, and The Dairymaid.
Banjo Music clarebannerman 2021-07-13 | A jig & reel played by Gerry O'Connor Banjo and Arty McGlynn Guitar R.I.P.
Melodeon Music clarebannerman 2021-07-03 | Two reels played on the melodeon by Liam Browne from Cree, County Clare.
Selection of Reels from 1990 clarebannerman 2021-06-27 | Johnny McDonagh Bodhrán, Tommy Peoples Fiddle R.I.P., Mary Bergin Tin Whistle, and Alex Finn Bouzouki R.I.P. Lovely selection of reels
Dan OConnells Pub, Knocknagree, County Cork. clarebannerman 2021-06-01 | Two beautiful Kerry Slides played by Seán McCarthy ( Fiddle) and Con Fada O'Driscoll (Box)
Liam OFlynn Uilleann Piper clarebannerman 2021-05-18 | Probably the greatest piper that ever lived being interviewed by Iarla O Lionárd and Liam playing one of our most beautiful slow airs Cath Chéim an Fhia. Liam O'Flynn R.I.P. 15 April 1945 – 14 March 2018
West Clare Set Dancing clarebannerman 2021-04-20 | Clip from 1990 recorded outside the town of Miltown Malbay...Musicians Tony Mac Mahon (Box) and Noel Hill (Concertina). Some of the dancers include Marty Marrinan (R.I.P.) from Cooraclare, Martin Vaughan Miltown Malbay and Tommy Browne from Cree.
The Browne Family clarebannerman 2021-03-24 | Selection of reels played by Colm (Concertina), Seán (Banjo) & Liam (Accordion)..Great talented family from Cree, County Clare.
Kerry Set Dancing clarebannerman 2021-03-14 | Small part of a Kerry Set from around 1990. The musicians are Séamus Begley (Accordion) and Steve Cooney (Guitar). Happy Saint Patrick's Day ☘️
Kieran Collins Tin Whistle (Part Two) clarebannerman 2021-03-02 | Two more reels from the late Kieran Collins who passed away in 1983. He was accompanied on electric guitar by Frank Teague.
Kieran Collins Tin Whistle clarebannerman 2021-02-22 | Kieran was originally from Slieve Aughty area of Gort, County Galway. He worked in London for a period before returning to work as an Air Traffic Controller in Dublin Airport. This recording was done in Camden Town, London in the early 60's . He died at 45 years of age on the 2nd of November 1983. ( A few days after I had been speaking to him.) One of the nice guys of this world. Go ndeana Dia trocaire ar a anam. Names of the above reels: (1) The Skylark (2) Roaring Mary.
West Clare Concertina Music clarebannerman 2021-01-22 | Rory McMahon from Cooraclare, County Clare playing a selection of reels.
Irish Traditional Flute Music clarebannerman 2021-01-04 | One of the great Irish Flute Players...Harry Ó Brolcháin (Bradley) from Belfast plays a reel called Jim Donohue's Reel.
Irish Traditional Accordion Music clarebannerman 2020-12-17 | One of the great young accordion players of Ireland. Tipperary man Keelan McGrath accompanied by his brother play a selection of reels.
The Salt of The Earth ...The Tulla Ceili Band & Sean Nós Dancer Stephanie Keane. clarebannerman 2020-11-10 | Two Reels from The Tulla C.B. with Stephanie dancing the second one. Poetry in motion.
The Browne Family clarebannerman 2020-09-19 | Great family group of traditional musicians from Cree, County Clare...Colm (Concertina), Seán (Banjo) and Liam (Accordion).
The Pure Drop clarebannerman 2020-08-21 | Poetry in motion. Limerick Sean Nós dancer Stephanie Keane with the great Tulla Ceili Band...
Liam Browne Accordion clarebannerman 2020-08-02 | Young box player Liam Browne is from Cree, County Clare and comes from a very talented family of musicians, singers & dancers. His Grandad Tommy Browne is a renowned Sean Nós/ Set Dancer, Whistle Player & Ballad Singer. Liam's style of playing reminds me of some of the great accordion players of the past...
Old Style Irish Step Dancing clarebannerman 2020-07-22 | A night in the company of Michael Tubridy (former member of the Chieftains). The steps danced here are from the late and great dance teacher Dan Furey from Labasheeda, County Clare
The Marino Waltz clarebannerman 2019-11-21 | John Sheahan Fiddle Michael Howard Classical Guitarist play a well known composition composed by John called "The Marino Waltz". Marino is the area of Dublin where John comes from.
Liam OConnor Fiddle Part 3 clarebannerman 2019-06-20 | Slow Air (The Races of Ballyhooley) + Silver Spear Reel @ 03:02 (Brilliant rendition).......Liam O’Connor, one of Ireland’s leading fiddle players, was born into a musical family in Dublin. His solo CD “The Loom” received 5 star reviews and was voted Trad Album of the Year 2017 by the Irish Times.His father Mick O’Connor is a well-known flute player, researcher and leader of the Castle Céilí Band. During his youth, Séamus Glackin taught Liam. By age of 15 he had won 5 All Ireland fiddle championships and later added junior and senior Oireachtas fiddle competitions. He also completed 8 grades in Classical violin training in the DIT College of Music, Dublin. In addition to performing as a soloist from a young age, in his teenage years he was also invited to perform in duet with established masters such as uilleann piper Liam O’Flynn and concertina legend Noel Hill.He was awarded TG4 Young Musician of the Year in 2002. At the time, Liam was described in the Irish Times as “Possibly one of the most exciting fiddle players on the music scene since the emergence of Sean Keane and Frankie Gavin more than 30 years ago. He has an exceptional natural ability and the standard of his playing defies logic given his age.”He spent many summers in County Clare, his mother’s home county where he played with played with musical icons Joe Ryan, Bobby Casey, Peadar O’Loughlin and many others. Other major influences on his playing include Séamus Glackin, Vincent Harrison, Seán Keane, along with recordings of Tommie Potts, Michael Coleman and James ‘Lad’ O’Beirne.In 2006 Liam and Sean was awarded a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland under their DEIS scheme where the archiving and recording of the transmission of the tradition from older masters to younger musicians was central. He spent time with and conducted interviews with Seán Potts, Peter Horan, Vincent Harrison, Seamus Tansey, Seamus Begley, John Dwyer, Peadar O’Loughlin, Sean MacIarnán, among others during this project. Liam also featured on an acclaimed CD with Noel Hill in 2006.In a review of a concert at the Temple Bar Traditional Music Festival in 2007 by Toner Quinn of The Journal of Music, he made the following comments on Liam’s solo performance: “We teetered with O’Connor on the very edge of the melody as he stretched our concepts of the aesthetics of traditional music – expanding the melody, reducing it, compacting it, going forward, pulling back. This was dangerous music executed in a risky environment, with no accompaniment, no safety net, and there was no cutting short lest he ran out of ideas. O’Connor has the potential to have serious impact on fiddle playing. Now only 23 years old, a fiddle solo of three reels half way through the set was, in a word, breath-taking.” In 2009, he released a critically acclaimed CD “Dublin Made Me” with uilleann piper Seán McKeon which was described as “Exceptional musicians who marry technical prowess with a marvellous sense of adventure and history” (Irish Times).In 2009, he secured first-class honours in a graduate diploma in Irish Folklore in the UCD Delargy Centre for Irish Folklore and Linguistics and the National Folklore Collection. During the course of his studies, Liam was awarded two prestigious scholarships: Scoláracht Máire MhicNéill and Scoláracht Dhónaill uí Mhoráin. He worked as a researcher of traditional songs in the Irish language for the Royal Irish Academy’s Doegen Web Records Project. He has taught as a guest teacher on undergraduate and post-graduate courses at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Limerick, and in DIT, DKIT and UCD. He has also taught and performed at numerous Irish and international music festivals such as Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, Scoil Acla, Tocane and many more. He has served as a board member on the TG4 Gradam Ceoil Selection Panel, on the board of the Irish Traditional Music Archive and as honorary secretary of An Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann/The Folklore of Ireland Society. Having been awarded a Master of Letters for his research thesis entitled “Aspects of oral tradition in the Life and Works of P.W. Joyce”, Liam has given lectures on Joyce at Na Píobairí Uilleann, the National Folklore Collection, the Chris Langan Festival, Toronto, and Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. He also gave talks and lectures on Paddy Cronin, Vincent Harrison, Fiddle Music in Dublin, and Tommie Potts. Given his interest in manuscript, historic collections and contemporary traditional compositions, he is proud of having written forewords to the P.J. Giblin Collection and to Connie O’Connell’s Bóithrín na Smaointe. In 2012, he was invited to give an illustrated insight into the music of Tommie Potts at the launch of RTÉ CD Tommie Potts – Traditional Fiddle Music from Dublin.
Liam OConnor Fiddle Part 1 clarebannerman 2019-06-20 | Great version of The Foxhunter's Reel which was popularised by the late Patrick Kelly of Cree, County Clare in the late 50's.
Kevin Rowsome Uilleann Pipes clarebannerman 2019-04-21 | Kevin started playing the uilleann pipes at the age of six, taking his first lessons from his grandfather Leo and his father, Leon. During his teenage years Kevin played clarinet and tenor saxophone with the Artane band. Kevin gained public recognition when he won first prize in the uilleann pipe competition at Oireachtas na Gaeilge, and is widely regarded as one of today’s finest uilleann pipers. Kevin has gained vast experience as a performer and instructor of the uilleann pipes, performing extensively and lecturing and instructing at a number of traditional music festivals throughout Europe and USA. As well as his own debut recording “The Rowsome Tradition”, five generations of uilleann piping in 1999, Kevin has recorded and performed over the years. Kevin also has a number of musical compositions to his name. He gained wide recognition as a composer in 2006 when he won the prestigious Cuisle Cheoil an Bhlascaoid (the musical pulse of the Blasket islands) competition
Tonys Birthday Session clarebannerman 2019-04-20 | Beautiful hornpipe played by Paddy Glackin Fiddle & John Regan Accordion for Tony McMahon's Birthday.
Scattery Island Slide clarebannerman 2019-04-20 | A great favorite of the late Fiddler ..John Kelly Snr. Played here by Peadar Ó Riada ..Concertina, John Kelly Jnr ...Fiddle and Eamon McGivney ...Fiddle
Tony Mac Mahons Birthday Party clarebannerman 2019-04-18 | To celebrate Tony's 80th birthday two friends from the past and former members of The Chieftains...Michael Tubridy (Flute) & Seán Keane (Fiddle) play a lovely selection of reels. Recorded at the Clé Club,Liberty Hall, Dublin 17th April 2019. Our heritage of Irish Music the tunes our Father's loved.
West Clare Concertina Music clarebannerman 2018-05-03 | Tommy Mc Mahon and Bernard O'Sullivan, from Cooraclare, County Clare, Ireland ☘️ play a beautiful set dance (R.I.P. Bernard)...Bonaparte's Retreat. In the 1970s Cree-Cooraclare was very much 'Concertina Country'. Such names as Bernard O'Sullivan, Tommy McMahon, Solus Lillis, Tommy McCarthy, Gerald Haugh, Sonny Murray, Michael Tubridy and Tom Carey were well known as concertina players from this area, many still active today. This 1974 recording, highlights the unique playing and ensemble style of two of these players, Bernard O'Sullivan & Tommy McMahon. Their huge repertoire embodies the best of the Clare tradition.
The Banks Of Sullane clarebannerman 2017-04-18 | The late Ollie Conway of Mullagh,County Clare singing one of his favourites "The Banks of Sullane". Ollie was a singer, dancer, farmer and publican and passed away on 26th March 2009.
Postscript by Seamus Heaney clarebannerman 2016-08-04 | Seamus Heaney wrote Postscript on a drive along the shore road in the Burren, County Clare. The dancers are from a recording done in 1979 of Clare Set Dancers celebrating the old festival that occurs on Saint Stephen's Day (26th December) each year known as The Wren. The dancers and performers go from house to house and are known as the Wren Boys.
Joe Derrane clarebannerman 2016-04-13 | Selection of hornpipes from the maestro. Joe Derrane (Boston, Massachusetts, 16 March 1930) is an Irish-American button accordion player, known for re-popularizing the D/C# system diatonic button accordion. (Names of hornpipes....The Kildare Fancy/The Golden Eagle/The Sweeps ) Sad to say Joe passed away on 22/07/2016.
