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Waterford Is Blessed With Many Things.. Just one of those is the amazing food offering available throughout the city and county! West Waterford Festival of Food is just one of the food festivals that has had to postpone their event this year however they have since developed Festival Spirit – a brand new event which runs from April 23rd-25th. Festival Spirit is a 3-day mini-series of virtual and physically distanced initiatives created to capture a sense of the famous festival. This Friday on Drive Time with Aoibhin Fallon from 3-6pm, Aoibhin will be celebrating Festival Spirit throughout t...

Sean, Jr., Joe, Kevin, and Mike McGonigal. By Kristin McGowan, Contributor There’s more to piping than meets the ear. Kristin McGowan talks to Joe McGonigal, the highly sought after musician and teacher, about his upcoming plans and the influence of his grandfather on the growth of pipe bands in the United States. ℘℘℘ Once the St. Patrick’s Day parade season is over, some pipe bands take a break for the next round of summer parades, while others gear up for a marathon of competitions that can stretch into the fall. Joseph P. “Joe” McGonigal’s excepti...

(5 out of 5 stars) "Released in 1987, this is the final recording made by Liam Clancey and Tommy Makem before the duo split up. It's also by far the most interesting musically, and at least some of the credit goes to producer/musician/arranger extraordinaire Donal Lunny.Lunny, who's worked with just about everybody in the Irish music world, contributed bouzoukis, bodhrans and keyboards to the 13 songs. He also did much of the arranging, so much of We've Come A Long Way has more variety than previous M&C recordings. Indeed, maybe there was too much variety for Makem. I interviewed him in the ...

Cork's Greatest Records: Conal Ó Gráda and his influential 1990 album, The Top of Coom The Ballincollig man drew heavily on Cúil Aodha influences for a record named after the highest pub in Ireland  Conal Ó Gráda recorded The Top of Coom over five days at Tadhg Kelleher’s Sulán Studios in Baile Mhúirne.  Wed, 03 Feb, 2021 - 20:00 Pet O’Connell Irish traditional musicians take many winding roads to learning, but picking up tunes from a whistle-player who is steering a car with his elbows is a route less travelled now than it might have been in the 1970s.