Irish Music Magazine - August 2019 issue
COVER STORY
MILWAUKEE IRISH FEST
A celebration of Music and Culture August 15-18, 2019.
FEATURES
WE BANJO 3 : ROOTS TO RISE
It is a wet day in June, the day before the Leaving Cert starts. “Hopefully there’ll be sunshine ahead,” Enda Scahill jokes with Seán Laffey.
CONNECTIONS FROM HEATHER DOWN THE MOOR
Aidan O’Hara chats with John McEvoy of Gatehouse.
TWENTY ONE YEARS OF COSCÁN
Seán Laffey talks to David Nevin of the Meath based band Coscán.
TUNES WITH LILT
Washington DC based Keith Carr and Tina Eck are LILT. Anne Marie Kennedy spoke to them about their individual musical journeys and collaborative work.
DAMIEN’S DÚCHAS
Seán Laffey talks to Damien O’Reilly about a new album on the Raelach label.
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS HIGH AND CLEAR
Grainne McCool chats to Haley Richardson, a young fiddler whose talents extend to the fields of both classical and Irish traditional music.
KERN : A NEW SOUND FROM LOUTH
As traditional Irish music continues to develop and prosper, it’s expanding into new and interesting territory, while striving to retain the essence of its origins, and Louth based Kern are at the vanguard of that movement, writes Mark Lysaght.
KICKIN’ UP DUST
Derek Copley talks to Caolaidhe and Meghan Davis of The 19th Street Band about their fan tour that will be rolling into Ireland in August.
THE DROWSY LADS
Seán Laffey chats with Daniel McKewen, the guitarist and uilleann piper with The Drowsy Lads, a Columbus Ohio based traditional band.
TALKING WITH THE NIGHT OWLS
Noctambule are set to tour Ireland. They are the US based duo of Marla Fibish on mandolin, mandola, and tenor guitar and Bruce Victor on guitar(s) and cittern. Here they talk to Anne Marie Kennedy about their music and their influences.
FESTIVALS
A selection of wonderful Festivals and Summer Schools from Ireland and abroad.
DUBLIN IRISH FESTIVAL
Letting the Shamrock Shine. The best of Irish Music, Dance, Art and Culture from August 2-4, 2019.
TIME FOR THE 33rd FIDDLERS GREEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
A community festival in Rostrevor, Co Down, N Ireland, celebrating Irish music, arts & culture since 1987.
TRADFEST TEMPLE BAR RETURNS TO MILWAUKEE IRISH FEST IN 2019
Dublin’s only festival of Trad and Folk music will be back next January with a host of national and international artists.
REGULARS
STORIES FROM IRISH AMERICA
Réidín O’Flynn chats with Mícheál Ó Máille, professor, teacher, lecturer, historian, poet and dancer.
BUTTON ACCORDION BASICS with Derek Hickey
Brought to you in association with the Online Academy of Irish Music (OAIM).
WALTONS TUITION
Another selection of tutorials brought to you in association with Waltons Music. You can now listen to these online at www.waltons.ie
LEGENDS OF IRISH MUSIC
An appreciation by Mark Lysaght of The McNulty Family.
GREAT INFLUENCES ON THE TRADITION
Aidan O’Hara writes about Sam Henry who’d have liked people to say of him: ‘He put an old song in our mouths’.
STORY BEHIND THE SONG
The County Tyrone. A request to a librarian opened up a whole world of Irish songs to a generation of revival singers, writes Seán Laffey.
BOOK REVIEWS
MICHAEL TUBRIDY – A SELECTION OF IRISH TRADITIONAL STEP DANCES
Brooks Academy, Dublin, ISBN 978-1-5272-2060-7, €30, available from www.pipers.ie. Aidan O’Hara digests the content.
LIVE REVIEWS
RORY MAKEM & DÓNAL CLANCY
The Clonmel World Music Club, 13th April 2019, Hotel Minella, Clonmel, County Tipperary. Seán Laffey reports.
CD REVIEWS
Another selection of CD Reviews from the International World of Folk and Traditional Music.
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