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Updated / Friday, 26 Feb 2021 12:54 This weeks featured Rolling Wave podcast continues with an occasional series which has been running on the programme, where a musician selects an album or an artist who has influenced their own playing - listen above. This week our guest is concertina player Caitlín Nic Gabhann and her chosen album is a fantastic recording of concertina music, The Nervous Man by Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh. Like Caitlín, concertina player Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh is from C...

Updated / Friday, 19 Feb 2021 18:28 In this weeks Rolling Wave podcast, Aoife Nic Cormaic speaks to the Director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive, Liam O’Connor, about a very exciting discovery of previously unheard recordings of fiddle player Michael Coleman from 1942, as well as other newly discovered recordings made in 1948 of James Lad O’Beirne with Martin Wynne and Louis Quinn.   The Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin recently acquired a number of previously unheard ace...

The Rolling Wave podcast, Michael Harrison talks about the music of his grandmother Aggie Whyte - listen above. Aggie Whyte (1920-1979) was an award-winning fiddle player who was described by Seamus Ennis as Queen of Fiddlers. She was one of the musicians recorded by Alan Lomax on his visit to Ireland in 1951, and a duet she recorded with her sister Bridie at that time again prompted Seamus Ennis to describe them as the ‘perfect fiddle duet’. Aggie was the first woman to win the All Ireland...

Updated / Friday, 5 Feb 2021 13:28 The Rolling Wave podcast this week hears from musician and artist Barry Kerr, who recently completed his year as the recipient of the Liam OFlynn Award, an award jointly sponsored by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the National Concert Hall in Dublin - listen above. As part of that residency Barry spent time in the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin exploring Liam O’Flynn’s archive.There he found tunes written by Liam O’Flynn which ha...

Updated / Friday, 22 Jan 2021 13:25 The Rolling Wave podcast is Niamh Ní Charra who has just released her new album  Donnellys Arm - listen above. Dubliner Dan Donnelly was a publican and a champion boxer who died at the age of 31 in 1820.  Following his death and burial in Bullys Acre, his body was snatched by gravediggers and when it was found and brought back for reburial, his right arm was missing! And so began a series of amazing adventures featuring the infamous Donnellys Arm. On this...

Live stream to be highlight of Letterkenny Trad Week Posted: 5:30 pm January 21, 2021 By Harry Walsh MairŽad N’ Mhaonaigh Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh has visited all four corners of the globe over the past thirty-five years with Irish folk music band Altan. At times, holidays back in West Donegal were less frequent than she would have liked due to a busy touring calendar. Advertisement However, since the outbreak of the pandemic last March Mairéad has spent all her time in Donegal wi...

This week louisiana joins the rolling wave of states to rom back abortion rights after democr democratic senator rolled it back. in missouri a fight is ongoing over the states only abortion clinic. the states health department refused to renew the facilitys license citing patient safety concerns. the license was set to expire on friday. a judge granted plant parenthoods request for a temporary retraining order until at least tuesday when arguments will be heard in court. the license isnt renewed...

Atlantic island with high winds, furious waves. fierce storm ripped boats from moorings, sparking power outage to one-fourth of the island. jim cantore live in bermuda. i understand they got lucky with this, though. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. i mean though it was a long duration event, we knew we would get drilled for several hours here, you showed those waves. look, this is -- that was less than 24 hours ago, probably like 18 hours ago. look at this, as we pan out, ive never seen what was r...