Fiddler Martin Hayes: ‘I come to the table with whatever little bit I managed to bring off the side of the mountain’
The acclaimed musician reimagines his album Peggy’s Dream with the National Symphony Orchestra this St Patrick’s weekend
Tommy Potts
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Martin Hayes: How I smashed my fiddle and stopped drinking
The fiddle player on becoming a ‘vegetarian, eastern-thinking, long-haired something’
Claddagh Records agrees licensing deal with Universal
Independent label’s back catalogue includes Chieftains and Seán Ó Riada
Session: ‘Four men in a space playing with music and dance’s relationship’
A new collaboration by choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and ex-Riverdancer Colin Dunne
Alan Reid & Rachel Conlan - A Quare Yield review: slow and steady
ALAN REID & RACHEL CONLAN A Quare Yield ***Independent release
Clare Memory Orchestra: A marriage of classical and trad loses the sheet music
Dave Flynn has found an innovative way to blend his two musical loves
Meet trad’s new supergroup
LAPD – aka Liam O’Flynn, Andy Irvine, Paddy Glackin, Donal Lunny – are charming a whole new generation, and breathing fresh life into traditional music
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