Irish Music Magazine - March 1999

Irish Music Magazine - March 1999 - Ireland's monthly traditional and folk music magazine.

Paddy Moloney

Paddy Moloney has been very busy, running Wicklow Records, launching The Chieftains' latest collaboration, Tears on Stone, and getting ready to play the Carnegie Hall on St. Patrick's Day. Christian Moll reports

Not So Easy Kila

Kila's last album was translated as 'take it easy!' Roderick O'Connor discovers they haven't been taking their own advice, extensive world travel, recording and an upcoming St. Patrick's Day gig at Dublin's Olympia are enough to keep any band on its mettle.

Sources

Ita Kelly talks to Micheál O Suílleabháin about Aloys Fleischman's magnum opus on the traditional music of Ireland.

Don't sing that - because you don't know it!

Frank McGrath brings us the true story and the full words to Spancill Hill.

Nomos

Paul Dromey hears about their new line-up, new songs and a forthcoming tour of America in March.

Charlie Lennon

John Brophy backstage at the NCH Dublin with Dr Charlie Lennon, the fiddling physicist from County Leitrim.

Sonny Condell

A rural Irish childhood is the inspiration for Sonny's contemporary folk songs. John O'Regan opens the French Windows on Sonny's world.

From North America

Eileen Ivers

Paul Keating brings us the latest news from Irish-American New York. He meets fiddle player, Eileen Ivers, on the eve of her latest Sony Classical release.

Cape May

Remembers Connie, set dancing on the New Jersey shore.

From Britain

Authentic Voices

Reg Hall's 20 volume compilation of Topic classics The Voice of The People recalls those early folk revival days and the first glimpses of what we now call the session scene. Myths lie in tatters as Malcolm Rogers gets the whole truth from Reg.

From Europe

Ar Web Keltiek

Philippe Cousin calls into the Celtic World of Gweltaz Ar Fur; this one time Breton singer is now a major distributor and promoter of all things Celtic, not only in his native Brittany but around the world..

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Plus

Mary and Michael Rafferty, Alison Kinnaird, MacCrimmon's Revenge, The Birkin Tree, Mac Spy in Donegal, News from Ireland, North America, Europe and Britain.
CD reviews, Live Reviews, Book Reviews and our regular two page listing of free sessions around the country.

News and listings from the wide world of traditional Irish music.