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Irish Music Magazine - March 1997
Cover Story
With the release of her latest album, Each Little Thing, this month, Sharon Shannon has plenty to say about her traditional roots and making the music accessible to all.
Margaret Barry
The street singer from a Cork Traveller background who sang at Irish fairs, in London and at the Rockefeller Centre in New York.
Pipers on the march
Overlooked nowadays in favour of the uilleann pipers, the pipe bands have a proud tradition and hours and hours of practice behind them. John Brophy finds they are under threat from property values and the high price of marching.
Ballad boom
Starting with a single book of ballads in the early Seventies, John Loesberg has created an expanding music publishing business by the banks of the Lee.
The collector
"I have probably one of the best folk music collections in Ireland," says Leslie Shepard, author of the standard reference book on the broadside ballads.
