Category Archives: Music

Chulra at The Golden Ace Inn, Indianapolis

Tim Hoke penned this review. There couldn’t have been much more than thirty people in the audience when I saw Chulrua, but then the room couldn’t have held many more. Though crowded, the small venue had its positive features. The view … Continue reading

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Danú at Hugh’s Room, Toronto

Danú are clearly one of the bright lights amongst the new generation of Irish traditional musicians, boasting some incredible individual and collective talent. I had last seen Danú at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and was really looking forward to this gig. I … Continue reading

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Clannad’s A Magical Gathering: The Clannad Anthology

 Seán Laffey penned this review. For those unfamiliar with the full panorama of the Clannad sound archive, these two discs might come as a surprise, as they contrast the band’s acoustic roots with more recent, perhaps familiar work, which is all … Continue reading

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Clannad’s The Best of Clannad: In a Lifetime

John Benninghouse penned this review. For some, Clannad is best known as the band in which Enya cut her teeth. Formed in the early 1970s in Ireland, Clannad was a combination of siblings Moya, Ciaran, and Pol Brennan along with their … Continue reading

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Clannad’s An Diolaim

Clannad is quickly becoming one of the most compiled bands in Celtic music. Already boasting two “best of” collections and a soundtrack collection, Clannad now adds An Diolaim to the list. Fortunately, An Diolaim isn’t just another opportunistic knock-off, for … Continue reading

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Clannad’s Rogha: The Best of Clannad

Long one of the most popular of the Celtic-inspired Irish groups, Rogha: The Best of Clannad is actually the band’s third retrospective album, with all three–the first two being Past to Present and Themes–coming within the last ten years. Where Themes concerned itself mainly with Clannad’s soundtrack … Continue reading

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Clannad’s Clannad 

This CD reissue of Clannad’s first album is sure to be both a treat and quite a surprise for current fans of the popular Celtic-fusion group. Out of print for years, Clannad’s debut 1972 effort is packaged here with the … Continue reading

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Rook’s C’mon 

Rook is another one of those fascinating little discoveries that I love to spot and single out for attention. In this case, they came to me by way of Folk Tales‘ publisher, who sent C’mon to me with a side note stating that … Continue reading

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Clatterbone’s With A Twisted Grin

Once upon a time, there was a band called Rook, and they put out exactly one brilliantly enjoyable album before doing what so many bands do, splitting up and vanishing back into the ether. Little did we imagine that they weren’t dead … Continue reading

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Brendan Begley’s It Could Be a Good Night Yet (Oíche go Maidean)

Pat Simmonds penned this review. Breandán Ó Beaglaoich is truly a man for all seasons. Teacher, broadcaster, television presenter, singer, musician and traveler, he traverses all these forums with ease, staying true to his Kerry Gaeltacht roots. During the nineties, while … Continue reading

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