The Rolling Wave
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The Rolling Wave celebrates all that is great about Irish Traditional music. We speak to musicians, delve into archives, showcase new releases, and visit some of the many traditional music festivals taking place around the country. The Rolling Wave podcast brings you some of our best interviews and features.
The Rolling Wave
1M ago
The second of two programmes marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Sliabh Luachra fiddle player Denis Murphy. These programmes were made by Peter Browne and originally broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 in 1995 ..read more
The Rolling Wave
2M ago
The first of two programmes marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Sliabh Luachra fiddle player Denis Murphy. These programmes were made by Peter Browne and originally broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 in 1995 ..read more
The Rolling Wave
2M ago
Aoife speaks with musician and writer Seán McElwain about his new book ‘Our Dear Dark Mountain with the Sky Over It’. The books tells the story of James Whiteside who collected music in the Sliabh Beagh region, an area on the border between Northern Ireland and the south straddling counties Fermanagh and Monaghan in the late 1900s ..read more
The Rolling Wave
3M ago
In this episode Aoife meets harper and CEO of Harp Ireland, Lauren Ní Néill ..read more
The Rolling Wave
3M ago
In this episode Toner Quinn talks to Aoife about his new book 'What Ireland can teach the world about music and other essays ..read more
The Rolling Wave
5M ago
In this episode I'm joined by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Dermot McLaughlin to talk about some of the great names in Donegal fiddle playing ..read more
The Rolling Wave
5M ago
In this episode we're celebrating 40 years of the work of Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí in the company of some of its founding members and a host of great fiddle players ..read more
The Rolling Wave
7M ago
A special interview with composer, fiddle and piano player Charlie Lennon recorded in Stiúideó Cuan in Galway in advance of a concert in celebration of Charlie's music ..read more
The Rolling Wave
8M ago
Zoë Conway joins Aoife to talk about her newly composed suite of music, From a Forest to a Fiddle and we also hear from Jim McKillop whose fiddle making process is documented and celebrated through music and film as part of this project ..read more
The Rolling Wave
9M ago
In this episode Conor Caldwell talks about how jazz culture in Ireland in the early 20th century influenced Irish traditional musicians and made its way into the repertoire of players like John Doherty and others ..read more