When musicians and dancers create performances for a global audience, do Celtic traditions get a big boost? Do they lose anything on the road to the performing arts center?
This month, I explore the journey from put to PAC through the lens of Riverdance and the Breton band Kornog: if these acts hadn’t left Ireland or the Northwest of France to perform in the US, where would traditional music be? And would there be an Irish Music Stories Podcast???
I'll travel from Brittany to Boston, and back in time to 1983, when Kornog recorded their debut album, with the psychedelic cover and the groundbreaking flute and fiddle playing. Warning: contents contain trace elements of The Sex Pistols in the un-punk rock key of C Major.
Episode 77-The Bunch of Keys
Episode 76-The Power of the Local Pub
Episode 75-Betting on the Punters
Episode 74-Leaning in and Branching Out
Episode 73-Fruitful Fells Part Two
Episode 72-Fruitful Fells Part One
Episode 71-Missed Manners
Episode 70-Navigating Tech and Writing Tunes
Episode 69-Tea, Turf, and Wooden Spoons
Episode 68-20 Years of BCMFest
Episode 67-Hunting for Wren Tunes and Tales
Episode 66-Up in Smoke
Episode 65-Cutting Routes and Tracing Roots
Episode 64-O’Farrell’s Trip to Texas
Episode 63- Juice Box Sessions
Episode 62-Daughters, Maids, and Boys
Episode 61: Rounding up the the Tunes
Episode 60-Selma and Rose
Episode 59-Shortcut to the Heart
Episode 58-The Astonishing Adventures of Shannon Heaton
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