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 58-The Astonishing Adventures of Shannon Heaton
Episode 57-Best Laid Plans
Episode 56-Born for Sport
Episode 55-Written in Mortar
Episode 54-Banquet of Collective Wisdom
Episode 53-Songs of Cattle and Copper
Episode 52-Garden of Ballads
Episode 51-Depot of Expected Needs
Episode 50-Framing the Stories
Episode 49-The Naming of Birds
Episode 48 Trailer
Episode 48-Between the Tunes
Episode 47-The Myth of Tragedy
Episode 46-Ancient Tongues, Modern Times
Episode 45-Trad in the Classroom
Episode 44-Not Easy Playing Green
Episode 43-From the Fringe to the Fore
Episode 42 Trailer
Episode 42-The Long Arm of the Irish Tradition
Episode 41- Transplanting Tradition in the Land of the Trees
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