Tag Archives: Irish music

Geoff Wallis and Sue Wilson’s The Rough Guide to Irish Music

Posted on 10th February 2023 by Jack Merry

What? Yet another bleedin’ guide to Irish music?!? I’m sure you’re thinking that what we don’t need is another guide to Celtic music, as it seems like there’s more than enough of ’em now! Ah, but this is not a … Continue reading →

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Willie Clancy’s The Pipering Of Willie Clancy Volumes 1 & 2, Tommy Martin’s Uilleann Piper, Brian McNamara’s A Piper’s Dream, Kevin Rowsome’s The Rowsome Tradition, and various artists’ World Pipe Band Championships 2000, Volumes 1 & 2 

Posted on 28th January 2023 by Diverse Voices

Tim Hoke wrote this review. I was a little intimidated when a package of seven bagpipe CDs arrived at my house. Now, I love bagpipes in all forms as much as anyone who doesn’t actually play them can, but a … Continue reading →

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Nightnoise’s The White Horse Sessions

Posted on 29th December 2022 by Jack Merry

I see a strange man running silently He never looks behind himself He has no time to see He makes no sound, he has no voice The ground he doesn’t feel But he’s always on the run And I wonder … Continue reading →

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Caroline Peyton’s Celtic Christmas Spirit

Posted on 16th December 2022 by Diverse Voices

Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. This is quite possibly the one of the most impressive Christmas CDs I have ever run across. It is most certainly not what I had expected. I’d figured another run-of-the-mill Celtic Christmas experience; there … Continue reading →

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An interview with Nick Burbridge of McDermott’s Two Hours and other endeavors

Posted on 27th September 2022 by Cat Eldridge

Nick Burbridge, vocalist and tunesmith with McDermott’s Two Hours, joins me in the Green Man Pub for a conversation about him, his music, and his views on a number of political subjects. I first encountered his band when reading George … Continue reading →

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Alex Sturbaum’s Slash

Posted on 20th September 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

In an email conversation I had with Alex Sturbaum (they/them) after they contacted me about reviewing this album, one of my comments was something on the order of “this is an incredibly generous album.” And I didn’t just mean the … Continue reading →

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Christy Moore’s Whatever Tickles Your Fancy and Christy Moore

Posted on 12th August 2022 by Diverse Voices

John Benninghouse wrote this review. Christy Moore is an icon of Irish folk music. Growing up in the 1950s, he was surrounded by the music of his homeland, including such legends as the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. After moving … Continue reading →

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Christy Moore’s This Is the Day

Posted on 12th August 2022 by Lars Nilsson

There are some singers who stay in your heart forever. To me Christy Moore is one of these chosen few. He was there in the legendary Planxty, he was the voice on the first Moving Hearts album, one of the … Continue reading →

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Christy Moore’s Live in Dublin 2006 (double CD and DVD)

Posted on 12th August 2022 by Lars Nilsson

I write this as Europe prepares for two nights of the Eurovision Song Contest, in which each country submits a song, often performed by a starry-eyed youngster, who does his or her best to cover his or her roots, singing … Continue reading →

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Christy Moore’s One Voice: My Life in Song

Posted on 6th August 2022 by Jack Merry

I know the minds behind them, they’re riddled full of holes, Not to be trusted with their hands at the controls. Their eyesight is twisted by the glory of their careers The heaped praise of flattery is music to their … Continue reading →

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