www.folkworld.eu

The online magazine, Folkworld.de reaches a landmark tenth birthday this month and the site, which has been a bit sporadic over the past few years, was due for a re-launch in November. Over its 10 years, Folkworld has developed into one of the biggest resources for European folk, world and roots music on the internet.
The magazine began in November 1997 and was then edited by German brothers Michael and Christian Moll, who were one time contributors of the then discontinued German print magazine Folksblatt. The magazine features folk and world music artists and genres “from the North Cape to the Mezzogiorno, from the Golden Horn to Finisterre, and beyond.”
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www.weltenklang.at

Now in its twelth year, Deitmar Haslinger’s Irish Christmas festival goes from strength to strength, this year the tour boasts the very considerable talents of Providence from Ireland and Susan McKeown from New York. The official website of the Guinness Christmas Irish Festival, even quotes this magazine when it hails Providence as a band to catch on this December tour of Austria:
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www.compassrecords.com

Eileen Ivers will release her new album “An Nollaig: An Irish Christmas” on Compass Records on November 20th to coincide with an extensive US tour, details of which you can find on www.compassrecords.com

This CD will not be available until November 20th, but it can be pre-ordered on-line and shipped to you to arrive as close as possible to the launch date.
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www.cic.ie

Bróga Páipéir agus Stocaí Bainne Ramhair, the new folklore book from Pádraic Breathnach, was launched by Joe Steve Ó Neachtain at 8.00 p.m. on Thursday 11 October in Áras Mháirtín Uí Chadhain in An Cheathrú Rua, Co. Galway. The launch was preceded by a lecture from Pádraic Breathnach, editor of the book, about Michael Phatch, the storyteller from whom he collected the stories.

www.raap.ie

On January 1st, 2001, New copyright legislation was introduced into Ireland and as a consequence R.A.A.P. (Recorded Artists and Performers) was set up to administer any monies accruing form the law. The 2001 legislation gave the right to claim monies due to all Irish Artists and Performers, featured and non-featured to a payment when a sound recording that they have contributed to is publicly broadcast in Ireland. This right has existed in other countries for quite some time. But, it does not extend to the US, which has the biggest radio market in the world. Currently visitors to the RAAP website are urged to sign the following letter which is campaigning for Royalties for members who’s work is often played for free in the US. The online letter reads as follows:
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www.folkradio.co.uk

Folk Radio UK is an independent internet radio station which plays a vast selection of Celtic and Traditional music of the British Isles and Ireland from both the past and present. The broadcast is commercial free and runs continuously 24 hours a day.

Folk Radio UK was started by Alex Gallacher in response to the lack of airplay being given to British and Irish folk by mainstream media. The station is run with the support of listener donations.
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Wednesday 16th January - Sunday 3rd February
www.celticconnections.com

Some of the leading names in folk and world music will perform in Glasgow this January at the 15th Celtic Connections festival. Taking place over 19
days in January and February in 14 venues across Glasgow, Celtic Connections is the UK’s premier Celtic music festival, with over 300 concerts, ceilidhs, talks, free events, late night sessions and workshops.
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Nashville, TN (October 22, 2007) - Compass Records Group is excited to announce the purchase of Tayberry Music, an internet and mail order business specializing in hard to find Celtic and folk CDs, DVDs, sheet music and books. Founded in 1987 by Margaret Tice and her son Frank Tice, Tayberry Music has sourced thousands of copies of eclectic Celtic music and English folk music to a discerning audience for over 20 years, and at one time was the main source of CDs for listeners of NPR’s “Thistle & Shamrock”.
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www.sharonshannon.com

Described by the Sydney Morning Herald as ‘the greatest Irish musician of her generation”, Sharon Shannon and her Renegade line-up have just returned from a sell-out tour of Australia and New Zealand. After the Brisbane show the Queensland Post reviewer wrote…’I can’t ever remember feeling so lifted and exhilarated by a performance……and the RENEGADE CD endorses all of that’.
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www.ennistradfestival.com
Again it’s that time of year where the people of Co. Clare prepare for the hundreds of musicians, singers, dancers and revellers who swarm in on the county for the 14th annual Ennis Trad Festival.
Year on year the festival attracts an ever increasing hoard of musicians to the town. Improving and increasing in leaps and bounds this festival bustles in a veritable frenzy of music, song and dance representing the pinnacle of the Irish Festival tradition.
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