Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann is the largest group involved in the preservation and promotion of Irish traditional music.
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The Session believes that the exchange of tunes is what keeps traditional Irish music alive. This website is one way of passing on jigs, reels and other dance tunes.
JC's ABC Tune Match has no recordings of music. If you are a musician who is interested in a simple, portable, plain-text music notation with software that will run just about anywhere, this might be at one of the right sites.
Irish Traditional Music Tune Index or Alan Ng's Tunography is an index which identifies all distinct Irish tunes based on musical comparison of all tunes across 425 albums and 49 tune books.
The Fiddler's Companion is a descriptive index of North American and British Isles music for the folk violin and other instruments by Andrew Kuntz.
The Old Music Project includes all of the music from O'Neill's Music Of Ireland, Allan's Irish Fiddler and The Complete Works Of Turlough O'Carolan.
Ceolas the home of celtic music on the internet, since 1994.
áthas lights the dance floor on fire with a combination of traditional and newly composed Irish dance tunes. Fierce fiddle, driving bodhrán, and funky guitar riffs come together to lift listeners' feet, drinks, and spirits. Members of áthas include 2006 midwest bodhrán champion Amy Richter, Heather Lewin-Tiarks and Jeff Ksiazek. Their latest CD was #5 on
Catherine's Top Ten Celtic CDs of 2007.
The String Sisters are: Annbjørg Lien (Norway), Catriona MacDonald (Shetland), Liz Knowles (Kentucky), Liz Carroll (Chicago), Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Ireland) and Emma Härdelin (Sweden).
The Trinity Irish Dancers from the Trinity Academy of Irish Dance have won an unprecedented 28 world titles for the United States and are the only Americans to ever win team gold medals. They have appeared on the "The Tonight Show" six times, "Live with Regis" five times, "Good Morning America" twice, as well as "Late Night with Conan", "CBS This Morning", "Today Show" and "Martha Stewart".
Founded on St. Patrick's Day, 1996, at O'Brien's pub in Santa Monica, California, the following year, Gaelic Storm was catapulted out of their formative pub haunts by an appearance in the blockbuster film Titanic. Gaelic Storm continues to broaden the musical horizons of the Celtic music genre by creating compelling originals and fresh arrangements steeped in Irish traditional melody and acoustic instrumentation combined with their unique blend of world rhythms. Touring aggressively and playing over 125 dates a year, the band has headlined the world's largest Irish Festival, Milwaukee Irish Fest, for six straight years.
Irish fiddle virtuoso Martin Hayes and American guitarist Dennis Cahill possess a rare musical kinship, ranking them among the most memorable partnerships of our era. Together they have garnered international renown for taking traditional music to the very edge of the genre, holding listeners spellbound with their slow-building, fiery performances.
Brian Bonner has been playing traditional Irish music for over 40 years, starting out in Buffalo, New York. He helped establish the Buffalo Feis, then brought his talents to Detroit.
Tim Collins is a traditional Irish concertina player who hails from the beautiful Sliabh Luachra area of west Limerick.
Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is a free downloadable radio show. Twice-monthly Celtic and Irish music by the best independent Celtic music groups. Irish drinking songs, Scottish folk songs, bagpipes, music from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Wales, Nova Scotia, Galacia, Australia and the United States. Hosted by Marc Gunn of the Brobdingnagian Bards.
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