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The 74th FLEADH opened in Belfast! There was a Palestine Solidarity parade at this year's national festival of traditional music and dance
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President Connolly opens Belfast Fleadh celebrating ‘universality’ of music
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026 is a celebration of the “universality” of music, Irish President Catherine Connolly has…
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/585724/ Here’s what happened at a hip hop trad session at a pub in Inchicore #Comhcheol #Éire #Entertainment #HipHop #IE #Ireland #IrishTrad #Music #RockinTheSuburbs #Trad #TraditionalIrishMusic
Radie Peat
Vicar Street, Friday, November 20 at 07:00 PM GMT
Enthusiastic Eunuch Proudly Presents
Radie Peat
(Lankum/ØXN)
special guest tba
Vicar Street
Friday 20th November 2026
Doors 7pm
Presale Thursday 9th July (Sign Up To Radie Peat Updates here https://www.radiepeat.com/ to receive a presale link)
Tickets on general sale 10am Friday 10th July via Ticketmaster
With unique vision, staggering vocal range and a wry sense of knowing, Radie Peat distils the essence of folk music into her songs and performances. Already one of Ireland’s most influential and revered vocalists, Peat is celebrated for her powerful contralto voice, technical vocal authority, and emotional depth. Peat’s trajectory as a multi-instrumentalist musician and singer began when she took up the concertina at a young age and started singing and playing alongside her sisters at traditional Irish music sessions. Music was a solace during formative teenage years, during which time she became great friends with Cormac Mac Diarmada. The two would later join with Ian and Daragh Lynch to form contemporary Irish folk music group, Lankum. With their shared depth of knowledge, musical agility, lyrical talent and abundant creative chemistry the group has become a cornerstone of contemporary Irish folk. More recently Peat formed ØXN alongside Katie Kim, Eleanor Myler, and John ‘Spud’ Murphy to create a doom folk supergroup characterised by pensive lamentations from the darker side of the Irish storytelling and song tradition.
Rough Trade Records are excited to share Radie Peat’s debut solo single - an interpretation of the popular traditional love song, ‘Still I Love Him’. With unique vision, staggering vocal range and a wry sense of knowing, Peat is celebrated for her powerful contralto voice, technical vocal authority, and emotional depth, she distils the essence of folk music, breathing life into old songs and carrying them forward with new meaning, both sustaining and enriching the Irish singing tradition, her strength of will palpable through poised delivery. On ‘Still I Love Him’ Peat traverses the peaks and troughs of romantic relationships, carrying a message of strength and sovereignty out of a song that can easily change shape according to the one that sings it.
Watch the accompanying video directed by Robbie Mailer-Howat with creative by Grace Margetson
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Landless
The Sugar Club, Friday, November 6 at 08:00 PM GMT
“Long-term Celtic music fans should flock to them – they’re a deliciously doomier Clannad – while devotees of Ireland’s current, brilliant scene should also respond to their stunning intensity.” – The Guardian Folk Album Of The Year
“While their albums are wonderful, seeing Landless live took my love of them to an entirely new level...They give me goosebumps from the very first note, every time." – Songlines
Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
Landless (Glittebeat)
with special guest
Seamus Hyland
The Sugar Club
Friday 6th November 2026
Tickets €24 via https://billetto.ie/e/landless-glitterbeat-records-tickets-1922733
Landless are: Lily Power, Méabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinéad Lynch. The Irish quartet sings centuries old ballads as well as more recently penned folk songs. Sometimes unaccompanied and at times with subtle instrumentation, their vocally rich music is dark and patient; spellbinding and gorgeous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu3HZEr_NAE
Lúireach, their second album, was named Folk Album of the Year 2024 by The Guardian. Lúireach is an album of quiet power, soaked in tradition but finding new and exciting ways to present these remarkable songs, songs that are full of melancholy, love, death and mystery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cbbq1GZ_gA
Working once again with John ‘Spud’ Murphy (the Lankum producer and ØXN member), Lúireach
sees the quartet adding sparingly-used instrumentation – Ruth’s aching pump organ on Death & The
Lady, Méabh’s shruti box on Ej Husari, Lankum’s Cormac MacDiarmada on fiddle, viola and banjo
throughout, even some mournful trombone from Alex Borwick on The Newry Highwayman. As Lily explains, “A lot of the instrumentation happened organically as we were recording, while some
elements we have used live for years, like the organ. We tend not to make these kinds of decisions in
advance, but make suggestions as we go and see how everyone feels about it. Hopefully the album still has the impact of the unaccompanied singing, with a bit of variation this time around.”
The songs on Lúireach are from remarkably diverse sources and eras: the likes of Blackwaterside, Death & The Lady and My Lagan Love (learned from Traveller Paddy Doran, Norma Waterson and Méabh’s late father respectively) are probably known to even the casual fan of traditional music, while Lúireach Bhríde was commissioned for the RTÉ Folk Awards in 2018 and the closing song Ej Husari was learned from teacher and singer Eva Brunovská at the annual Rozhybkosti festival in Slovakia. Some of these songs are centuries old, some remarkably recent, yet when sung by Landless, they all sound timeless and eternal.
Seamas Hyland
Seamas Hyland is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who focuses on both traditional and experimental music. He enjoys exploring the varied sonic capabilities of the button accordion and creating tonal landscapes using field recordings he collects.Seamas recently released his debut solo album ‘Maidin Domhnaigh’ and was nominated for an RTÉ Folk award for best emerging artist in 2025. He has also collaborated with artists like John Francis Flynn, Jennie Moran and Eimear Walshe, and is particularly intrigued by the contrasting nature of traditional and contemporary music and how/if these can be presented together.
Moya Brennan, the Emmy and Grammy-winning singer in traditional Irish band Clannad, has died at age 73. Here's a tribute to her from the Irish Times.
This set of uilleann pipes belongs to master piper, Mark Redmond.
The uilleann pipes is a very highly developed type of bagpipe. Originating in the early 1700s, it developed through the 1800s in Ireland, and within Irish communities abroad, to become the modern instrument.
We are fortunate to have several exponents of this fascinating, complex and sonorous instrument living in Ireland. Check out https://nationalinventoryich.chg.gov.ie/uilleann-piping/ for more info. #pipes #TraditionalIrishMusic #UilleannPipes #Music #Ireland
