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 21-Fifty Shades of Gender Equality
Episode 20-Trad Music Summer Camp
Episode 19-Fiddle in the Windy City
Episode 18-Wax Cylinders to the World Wide Web
Episode 17-Why Willie and Mary Matter
Episode 16-Pushing All the Right Buttons
Episode 15-Heartbeat of Irish Music
Episode 14-Dance Hall Days
Episode 13-The C-Word
Episode 12-Season Two Preview
Episode 11-Return to Sligo
Episode 10-Cuppa Tea with Daithi Sproule
Episode 09-Want of Wit
Episode 08-Miss McLeods Reel at 113
Episode 07-The Piper
Episode 06-The Backer
Episode 05-Handed Down
Episode 04-Cuppa Tea with McKinneys and McCarthy
Episode 03-Every Tuesday at Nine
Episode 02-Cuppa Tea with Karan Casey
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