Page 3 - Rolling Wave News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Updated / Friday, 26 Feb 2021 12:54 This week's 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 Co. Meath and The Nervous Man was his debut solo album. As described by Caitlín in the podcast, t...

Updated / Friday, 19 Feb 2021 18:28 In this week's 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 acetate recordings of fiddle players Michael Coleman and James Lad O’Beirne with friends. Michael Co...

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 Senior Fiddle Competition at the Fleadh in 1954. She also won numerous other All-Ireland titles i...

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 O'Flynn 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 hadn’t previously been recorded, letters and notes, home recordings and lots more. In this week’s...

Updated / Friday, 22 Jan 2021 13:25 The Rolling Wave podcast is Niamh Ní Charra who has just released her new album  Donnelly's 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 Bully's 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 'Donnelly's Arm'. On this album, Niamh Ní Charra has combined her two passions, music and archiving, and she has writte...