JASON O'Rourke is a servant. He's very civil but he's not a civil servant. Instead, he is at the service of those who want to indulge in the austerity-sidestepping, life-affirming activity of dancing, ...

One of trad music's finest concertina players has resisted recording his music for 17 years. He talks to Brian O'Connell about his new album There has always been a certain resistance among sections ...

CAN a piece of music be traditional and newly-composed at the same time? It's an oft-asked question among people who have a lot of time on their hands but in the meantime, more and more musicians are ...

On a recent Wednesday evening at Riptide Brewing Company, 987 3rd Ave. North, music from a Pandora radio station played over speakers and conversations floated throughout the bar. But the start of a ...

Via Trad Connect: Award-winning concertina player and innovator Cormac Begley has just released his debut solo album to critical acclaim. This is also the first solo concertina album in traditional ...

THERE was a moment during the Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year final in January when Mohsen Amini thought everything was going to fall apart. On the first word he uttered the concertina ...

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