IRISH trad fans are certainly being well catered for at next month's West Belfast Feile, which runs this year from August 2-11. IRISH trad fans are certainly being well catered for at next month's ...

The freewheeling spirit that has come to define folk music in recent years is writ large across the nominees for the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards 2025. It’s palpable in the wide-angled soundscape of Lankum ...

Last weekend, the 2024 Võru Folk Dance Festival took place with 500 folk dancers from eight different countries taking part. The festival ended with a live show by Estonian folk-rock three-piece ...

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Estonian folk-rock three-piece Trad.Attack! are kicking off its tenth year of making music together with an Estonia-wide tour. The tour began on Saturday at the Kohtla-Järve Cultural Center before the ...

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“Life is for living... don’t over-think,” Billow Wood assert, and their uplifting message couldn’t have come at a better time. That the West of Ireland quartet chose to name one of the tracks on their ...

Their punked-up versions of traditional Irish songs have wowed audiences. Ahead of recording a third album, the Dundalk band talk about their journey from playing for beer and whisky to this year’s ...

Beneath the church of Saint-Aignan is a crypt, once an ancient promontory. Stumbling upon it while wandering on the first of my five days in this small and pretty town in the Loire valley, I’m drawn ...

DUNDALK is set to stage a star studded line up in the first ever folk trad awards night in the Clan na Gael Club on Saturday, November 30. DUNDALK is set to stage a star studded line up in the first ...