Irish Music Magazine - March 2021 Issue

COVER STORY

ANDY IRVINE & PAUL BRADY – A CLASSIC RE-MASTERED

Compass Records Group is set to release a re-mastered version of the 1977 Mulligan Records album Andy Irvine & Paul Brady. Seán Laffey talks to Andy & Paul with Garry West from Compass Records.

FEATURES

CHRISTY MOORE : THE EARLY YEARS 1969 – 1981
Lar Flynn reviews for Irish Music Magazine.

SINA THEIL : FOLK MEETS COUNTRY
German born and Spanish raised, Naas based, Sina Theil has a lot to offer our music industry, writes Gráinne McCool.

GEORGE MURPHY & THE RISING SONS
George Murphy chats with Lar Flynn about falling in love again with music and following his heart with The Rising Sons.

SYZYGY : IT’S ALL NEW FROM FRASER AND HAAS
The week before Christmas and Alasdair Fraser is seasonally dressed for a zoom call with Natalie Haas, chaired by IMM’s Sean Laffey.

PATRICK MANGAN’S WINTRY MASTERPIECE
The Frost Is All Over is an impressive recording by New York fiddler Patrick Mangan. He spoke to Anne Marie Kennedy about making an album in the middle of winter, in the middle of a pandemic.

ONE FOOT ACROSS THE OCEAN
Maryann McTeague Keifer in conversation with Dave Kennedy of Tallymoore for Irish Music Magazine.

RACHEL NEWTON’S TO THE AWE
Gráinne McCool talks to singer and harpist, Scotland’s Rachel Newton.

ROSS AND RYAN COUPER : AN DEN DEY MADE TAE
An Den Dey Made Tae is the new album from brothers Ross and Ryan Couper, traditional musicians from Shetland. Seán Laffey has a Facebook cuppa with Ross Couper.

HEADING OUT WITH INVER
Seán Laffey talks to Rune Barslund and Kevin Lees of the trio Inver about the band’s album, Heading Out.

QUIRILL’S JOURNEY
Seán Laffey talks to Silas Bitterli a.k.a Quirill, who tells him about recording music at home and the Irish session scene in Switzerland.

THE JOLLY’S : AN ODESSA IRISH BAND
Seán Laffey was intrigued to discover a Ukrainian group performing classic Irish ballads all over Ukraine and Europe.

BRAD REID’S NEW SCOTLAND
Seán Laffey talks to Nova Scotian multi-instrumentalist Brad Reid.

MEET THE MAKERS : TOM & FINTAN CUSSEN
Anne Marie Kennedy meets the father and son team behind Clareen Banjos.

WEST OF EDEN’S CABIN SONGS
Six songs, an isolated cabin and one small idea. Seán Laffey talks to Martin and Jenny Schaub about West of Eden’s pared back new album.

SOLITAIRE RECORDING STUDIO
Creating outstanding Irish Recordings for over 30 years, Alan Whelan chats to Robert Heuston for Irish Music Magazine.

FESTIVALS

MEITHEAL 2021 : JULY 19th to 23rd
Among the organisers of Meitheal Summer School, there is a palpable optimism for the summer to come.

BLAS 2021 IS GOING VIRTUAL
Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance 2021 is going virtual!

REGULARS

THE LEGENDS SERIES
Chapter 1 : Paddy Keenan perhaps more than any other uilleann piper of his generation, has made the instrument attractive to a wider and younger audience, writes Mark Lysaght.

REGIONAL STYLES OF IRELAND
The Sliabh Luachra Music Tradition. Aidan O’Hara provides a historic overview for Irish Music Magazine.

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

LOW WHISTLE FOUNDATIONS with Tom Delany
Brought to you in association with the Online Academy of Irish Music (OAIM).

STORY BEHIND THE SONG
Seán Laffey writes, the 1977 Mulligan Records LP Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, now re-issued by the Compass Records Group, includes a number of songs about soldiers including The Jolly Soldier.

LIVE REVIEWS

THE WILDERNESS YET
Live from South London November 28th, 2020. Presented by Irish Music Magazine Facebook. Alex Monaghan reports.

CD REVIEWS

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

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