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In 2018, they were named Best Folk Group at the RTÉ Folk Music Awards, while Radie Peat was named Best Folk Singer. [1] The band were nominated for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year in 2017 for their album Between the Earth and Sky, and won the prize in 2019 and 2024 for their albums The Livelong Day and False Lankum. [2]
This is a list of bands who play Irish folk music. For "celtic music"-inspired groups, see Category:Celtic music groups. Subcategories. This category has the ...
The Chieftains are a traditional Irish folk band formed in Dublin in 1962, by Paddy Moloney, Seán Potts and Michael Tubridy. Their sound, which is almost entirely instrumental and largely built around uilleann pipes, has become synonymous with traditional Irish music. They are regarded as having helped popularise Irish music around the world. [1]
Irish dance music is isometric and is built around patterns of bar-long melodic phrases akin to call and response.A common pattern is A Phrase, B Phrase, A Phrase, Partial Resolution, A Phrase, B Phrase, A Phrase, Final Resolution, though this is not universal; mazurkas, for example, tend to feature a C Phrase instead of a repeated A Phrase before the Partial and Final Resolutions, for example.
Ciarán Tourish. Website. www.altan.ie. Altan are an Irish folk music band formed in County Donegal in 1987 by lead vocalist Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and her husband Frankie Kennedy. [1] The group were primarily influenced by traditional Irish language songs from Donegal [2] and have sold over a million records.
The High Kings is an Irish folk group formed in Dublin in 2008. The band consists of Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Darren Holden, and Paul O'Brien. [1] As of 2023, the group had released five studio albums, four live albums, two live DVDs, and one greatest hits album. Their first three studio albums appeared at number three or higher on the ...
Website. www.dervish.ie. Dervish is an Irish traditional music group from County Sligo, Ireland which has been described by BBC Radio 3 as "an icon of Irish music". [ 1 ] They were formed in 1989 by Liam Kelly, Shane Mitchell, Martin McGinley, Brian McDonagh, and Michael Holmes and have been fronted by singer Cathy Jordan since 1991.
De Dannan (originally Dé Danann) is an Irish folk music group. It was formed in 1975 by Frankie Gavin (), Alec Finn (guitar, bouzouki), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh and Charlie Piggott as a result of sessions in Hughes's Pub in Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland, [citation needed] with Dolores Keane (vocals) subsequently being invited to join the band.