The 23nd annual Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival Castleisland, Co. Kerry, Ireland. October 23th – 26th 2015 Est. 1993 The annual Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival programme – which comes with an equally annual warning that it’s provisional by nature and subject to subtle change – has just been released by festival chairman, Cormac O’Mahony…
There was the wave of reaction throughout the world of Irish traditional music at the retirement of collector / broadcaster, Dr. Ciarán MacMathúna from his radio series in late 2005. It was a move which he had flagged well for some months before that final broadcast. On Sunday morning, November 27th 2005 he broadcast his…
For the month of August, the Rolling Wave will be celebrating the music of Sliabh Luachra and remembering two great fiddle-players from this most musical area on the Cork-Kerry border – Paddy Cronin and Denis Murphy. On the first two Sundays in August, 3rd and 10th at 10pm the programme will feature a tribute concert…
