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The Wild Rover pub was recently named one of the top three pubs in the Canadian city of Victoria.
When Irishman Danny Hamilton moved to Victoria, a small city on Canada’s Vancouver Island, in 2013, he didn’t realise his move would be permanent.
Then, as sometimes happens, he met someone, settled down and now has a small child (and another on the way).
I like a bit of rain
A talented builder, he has done well for himself in Canada and, with his friend and business partner Warren Crolly, has helped create a vibrant Irish community within Victoria.
Cork s Greatest Records: Conal Ó Gráda and his influential 1990 album, The Top of Coom
The Ballincollig man drew heavily on Cúil Aodha influences for a record named after the highest pub in Ireland
Conal Ó Gráda recorded The Top of Coom over five days at Tadhg Kelleher’s Sulán Studios in Baile Mhúirne.
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Irish traditional musicians take many winding roads to learning, but picking up tunes from a whistle-player who is steering a car with his elbows is a route less travelled now than it might have been in the 1970s.
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The Chieftains, one of President-elect Joe Biden s favorite artists, had been invited to perform at his inauguration this Wednesday, January 20.
Chieftains founder Paddy Moloney, who previously said it would have been an honor to play Biden s inauguration, has told RTÉ News that due to travel restrictions, the legendary Irish musicians will not be able to perform at the January 20 event in Washington, DC. I think it would have been a huge job to get the whole band together for that unless somebody had a private plane to bring us all over, Moloney said. Bruce Springsteen and ourselves are his favorite musicians but this terrible situation going around has put a dampener on it all.
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The Chieftains may be the best-known folk band from Ireland, but Altan are the best. This is meant as no disrespect to the Chieftains, who dominated the genre in times past and continue to make good music today, but Altan .
more »have achieved a musical peak that s impossible to ignore. Because most of their vocals are in Gaelic rather than English and because their instrumental dance tunes stick close to their folk origins, Altan may be less accessible than the Chieftains, but the sheer beauty of the music will reward the patient listener. Two Nashville figures singer Alison Krauss and dobroist Jerry Douglas as well as Chieftains flutist Matt Molloy help out on Altan s new album, Runaway Sunday, but the recording is dominated by Altan s co-founder and undisputed leader, Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh, a virtuoso of the legendary fiddle tradition of her native County Donegal.