Irish Music Magazine - Annual 2021 Issue

COVER STORY

THE RISING STAR OF MAċA

Maċa the 3-piece Irish band in conversation with Maryann McTeague Keifer for Irish Music Magazine

FEATURES

NATHAN CARTER : THE ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION

Nathan Carter has achieved phenomenal success over both his professional recording and performing career, and to celebrate an amazing decade, he releases a new collection and chats to Lar Flynn for Irish Music Magazine.

MEET DAWN BEATON
Robert Heuston, Publisher of Irish Music Magazine in conversation with the Artistic Director of Celtic Colours International Festival, who will celebrate their 25th Anniversary in 2021.

JOANIE MADDEN
Joanie Madden was taking a forced break from her usual exhaustive touring schedule. Seán Laffey put in a distance call and found out why.

MÁIRÉAD NESBITT’S CELTIC SPELLS
Máiréad was home for a Christmas break in Loughmore, Tipperary, Seán Laffey caught up with her.

BRIAN KENNEDY
Lar Flynn in conversation with an Irish Music Legend.

ACID CROFT VOLUME 9 FROM SHOOGLENIFTY
Seán Laffey connects with Shooglenifty to discuss their new album and their past thirty years of west Highland mayhem.

COSCÁN ARE AS POSITIVE AS EVER
Seán Laffey talks to David Nevin and Harry Long of COSCÁN about the challenges and opportunities resulting from the Covid-19 Pandemic.

THE TIDE OF WINTER
Maryann McTeague Keifer in conversation with Shannon Lambert-Ryan to discuss the new Christmas album from RUNA.

MUSIC CONNECTS A FAMILY
Frank Greally shares Richard Mulligan’s story with IMM.

EIMEAR’S JOURNEY WITH CELTIC LANDS
Eimear McGeown took time out to tell Gráinne McCool about her own work and her musical journey with the Amazon TV special Celtic Lands.

THE LEGENDARY VOICE OF ANDY COONEY
Vocalist, musician, performer, songwriter and christened ‘Irish America’s Favourite Son’ by the New York Times, Andy Cooney takes time out to chat with Robert Heuston for Irish Music Magazine.

THE MUSIC OF HEALING
Frank Greally in conversation with Maurice Lennon for Irish Music Magazine.

INNES WATSON
Mark Lysaght finds out about an unusual recording project.

MEET DARREN & SHANNON FARRELL
Trad Nua is an Independent Irish Record label dedicated to keeping the Traditional Irish Arts alive by promoting & sustaining fresh & modern Irish Music. Robert Heuston asks the questions.

MICK ‘CITERN’ WALSH HAS GONE ONLINE
The Kilkenny based balladeer’s latest music is now online. He tells Seán Laffey why.

JAYNE POMPLAS
New York based Jayne Pomplas has not let the strangeness of 2020 interfere with her work ethic and output. She has just finished recording not one but two albums. She spoke animatedly to Anne Marie Kennedy.

BONFROST WITH THE NORDIC FIDDLERS BLOC
Philippe Cousin talks to Olav Luksengård Mjelva, of the Nordic Fiddlers Bloc.

RANDALL STEPHEN HALL’S YELLOW DOOR
Early October 2020 and the island was seriously debating lockdown, yet as Seán Laffey discovered, Randall Stephen Hall was on the move.

MISTRESS OF MELODY AND THE HIGH KING’S HARPER
It’s 1am in Utah as Samantha Rose Owings talks to IMM’s Seán Laffey.

GRAHAM LINDSEY’S THE NEXT BEST THING
Seán Laffey talks to composer, producer and mandolin player Graham Lindsey about a lockdown collaboration.

LIVE FROM KILMICHAEL, BY ROBIN JAMES HURT
Robin James Hurt was in an upbeat frame of mind when I spoke to him recently, just prior to the completion of his solo album Live from Kilmichael, writes Mark Lysaght.

RON BLOCK
Multi-talented banjo player of Alison Krauss & Union Station, guitarist, songwriter, producer, Ron Block in conversation with Chris Keenan for Irish Music Magazine.

COLUM SANDS : AN ACCIDENTAL PROPHET
Clive Price zooms into Rostrevor to ask Colum Sands about his new album Song Bridge.

ROWAN LESLIE ESCAPING THE DAWN
Aidan O’Hara talks to the Glasgow-based County Antrim Fiddler.

REBECCA LOMNICKY & THE FIRE
Seán Laffey talks to Rebecca Lomnicky about her music and a new album from her Scottish band The Fire.

LOOKING OUT FOR BETTER WEATHER WITH THE RESIDUALS
Seán Laffey learned that 20th Century Irish immigrants to Saskatchewan brought traditional music in their wake, when he talked to fiddler Jeremy A. Cook of the Prairie Celtic band The Residuals.

TEMPLARS OF DOOM & HOVELS OF THE HOLY
Seán Laffey takes a zoom interview with Michael X Rose and the clan MacLeod kilted Marty Shane from the Templars of Doom.

PETER DALDRY
Peter Daldry is a California based Scotsman, an award-winning singer, his life’s trajectories are the makings of a good song or ballad, and he shared some of them with Anne Marie Kennedy.

THE B STREET THEATRE SACRAMENTO
Robert Heuston, Publisher of Irish Music Magazine had the pleasure of recently chatting with Producing Artistic Director, Buck Busfield.

SING ME THESE SONGS
Robert Heuston in conversation with the Florida based, Celtic Conundrum prior to
the release of their new album.

FESTIVALS

KEEPING THE TRADITIONS ALIVE IN FLORIDA
Michael Lange, Director of Dunedin Live: Haggis Winter MusicFest in conversation with Robert Heuston, Publisher of Irish Music Magazine.

THE WILD ATLANTIC FLEADH 2021
A newcomer to the Irish Festival scene in the US, the Wild Atlantic Fleadh is a virtual festival that will debut on St Patrick’s Week 2021.

TradFest TEMPLE BAR 2021
Festival favourites return to TradFest in 2021 to help breathe life into a devastated live music industry.

REGULARS

WALTONS TUITION
Another selection of tutorials brought to you in association with Waltons Music. You can now listen to these online at www.waltons.ie

GREAT INFLUENCES ON THE TRADITION
Carl Gilbert Hardebeck. Aidan O’Hara examines the contribution of the blind composer, song collector and arranger of Irish songs and airs.

LEGENDS OF IRISH MUSIC
Seán Ó Riada. An appreciation by Mark Lysaght.

GLOBAL SESSION TUNES WITH OAIM
Brought to you in association with the Online Academy of Irish Music (OAIM).

STORY BEHIND THE SONG
Seán Laffey re-awakens the back-story of John O’Dreams.

LIVE REVIEWS

CARA DILLON LIVE AT THE COOPER HALL
Co-hosted by Irish Music Magazine Facebook. Fergal Woods reports.

AOIFE SCOTT AT THE BALOR ARTS CENTRE
September 20th, 2020. Grainne McCool reports for Irish Music Magazine.

SEÁN KEANE LIVE FROM CARRAGH COTTAGE
Presented by Irish Music Magazine Official Facebook www.facebook.com/TRADIMM. Sunday October 25th. Seán Laffey reports.

BOOK REVIEWS

WHY THE MOON TRAVELS
Collection of folk tales by Oein DeBhairduin. Illustrations by Leanne McDonagh. Deirdre Cronin reviews for Irish Music Magazine.

PHIL COULTER’S BRUISED, NEVER BROKEN
Gill Books ISBN9780717184132, hardback, €20.99. Aidan O’Hara reviews for Irish Music Magazine.

LEARN IRISH BANJO
Enda Scahill’s Irish Banjo Tutor Volume 1. Mark Lysaght reviews for Irish Music Magazine.

CD REVIEWS

Another selection of CD Reviews from the International World of Folk and Traditional Music

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