David Power, Maeve Gilchrist, Tola Custy, Colin Dunne in ‘Edges of Light’

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh’s Imeall review

Martin Tourish: Under a Red Sky Night album

A so-called ‘open letter’ to the media about The Gloaming

The Gloaming 2 is nearly here and here’s the first track we get to hear

The second coming of An Rí na Cnaipí, Tig Cóilí, Galway, 2008

The Gloaming, Act II

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh’s orbit

NoCrows in concert

Lovely things to play with, songs

IS IT(M) A MAN’S WORLD?

Karen Ryan and Pete Quinn’s ‘The Coast Road’: review

Ensemble Ériu: what’s the appeal?

Treelan: organic, meditative, joyful, colourful music

The Vallely brothers on an Irish tour

Liam Ó Maonlaí’s Rian musicians form a band

Swedish folk group, Väsen, in Ireland

Launch of Danny Diamond’s Fiddle Music

‘Vanished Lands’: a new suite of music by Neil Martin premiering next weekend

Seán Ó Riada Port na bPucaí: previously unreleased keyboard recordings

Review: Liz Carroll’s On the Off Beat album

A day of music in Whelan’s revives the idea of a Dublin folk festival

This is how we cruise

Dave Flynn’s genre jumping genius may jar for some

Into The Gloaming

Alasdair Fraser, Natalie Haas and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh Music Network tour

Is “contemporary traditional music” an oxymoron?

Sligo group wins Siansa Gael Linn 2014 (but Mayo was my choice)

Gerry Godley on The Gloaming

The fiddle playing of Saileog Ní Cheannabháin

“The more I play this music the more I want to do less on the fiddle”: Martin Hayes in interview with Peter Browne

Siansa Gael Linn 2014 features groups from counties Sligo, Derry, Dublin, Mayo, Clare, Cork and Waterford

Review of An Táin by Deep End of the Ford

Music as a metaphor for living: Martin Hayes at Trailblazery event in the Mansion House

Report from the front lines of trad

A belt of something beautiful: New Road at Whelan’s

Out-side in-fluences on ITM

New Road, to paraphrase Kermit, is made up of exemplary practitioners of traditional music

Programme notes for Music Network tour featuring Dirk Powell, Brendan Gleeson, Michael McGoldrick, Francis Gaffney

Mingus-Hayes

The Irish Times Ticket Awards 2013: some dashed-off thoughts

2013 “trad” albums: stuff is happening

Robert Ballagh on the music of Triúr

Tony MacMahon on the playing of Peter Carberry

The player listening

Review of This is How we Fly’s debut album

Review of Ensemble Ériu’s debut album

Review of Iarla Ó Lionáird’s Iomas/Intuition

Rónán Ó Snodaigh on classical music

An open letter to the general editors of the Encylopaedia of Music in Ireland