Blarney Pilgrims Irish Music Podcast
A weekly journey to the heart of Irish music.
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 29 in total of Blarney Pilgrims Irish Music Podcast with the tag “fiddle”.
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Episode 92: Gráinne Brady Interview (Fiddle)
March 5th, 2021 | 1 hr 14 mins
fiddle, gráinne brady
From Cavan to Glasgow. Party houses and late night tapes. Finding your feet in sessions that suit. Creating your own space to play. The Navvy poet Patrick MacGill, The Road Across The Hill, Newcomer and The Children Of The Dead End.
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Episode 89: Maċa Interview (Fiddle, guitar, bodhran)
February 15th, 2021 | 1 hr 32 mins
bodhran, fiddle, guitar, maċa
Buying your first guitar with your confirmation money. Playing 182 tunes in two hours. Winning Réalta agus Gaolta. Cutting your teeth in Florida. Finding a mentor in Kíla's Rónán Ó Snodaigh. Translating the craic. Avoiding the abyss of lockdown and a casual Disney Princess flex. Saoirse, Naoise and Ciara Carty.
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Episode 88: Shane Lestideau Interview (Fiddle, baroque violin, violin d'amore)
February 7th, 2021 | 2 hrs 4 mins
baroque violin, fiddle, shane lestideau, violin d'amore
Finding Michael Jackson in the Blue Mountains after ten years in a Buddhist Bush community. A year of four hour nights. Mozart with a Sligo lilt. Ten hour train trips for one hour lessons. Scottish baroque music, modal tunes, violin d'amore, and combining art music and folk music. Catch Shane Lestideau in Queenscliff during the Boxwood Festival from the 19th to the 21st of Feb 2021.
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Episode 86: Rus Bradburd Interview (Fiddle)
January 22nd, 2021 | 2 hrs 10 mins
fiddle, irish music podcast, paddy jones, paddy on the hardwood, padraig o'keeffe, rus bradburd, sliabh luachra
Digging into tunes. Paddy Jones. The Draoicht. Sports and music, and finding your place in both. Coaching basketball in Ireland and the Tralee Tigers. Carl Hardebeck, The Blind Bard of Belfast. The fiddle as an old person's instrument. Sliabh Luachra. Padraig O'Keeffe. Paddy on the Hardwood. Slow airs in sessions and New Mexico polkas.
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Episode 84: Aoife Kelly Interview (Concertina)
January 6th, 2021 | 1 hr 49 mins
aoife kelly, concertina, fiddle, john kelly
'We ARE the source.' John Kelly of Capel Street and Scattery Island. Hiding the fiddle under your jacket in Dublin in the rare oul times. Strange hornpipes, slip jigs, slides. Patsy Geary, Jimmy O'Donahue and Kilfenora's three bakeries. The memory palace and preserving a life. Ireland, Australia, Tommy Potts posters and the evocative power of seagulls. Searching out the music in Darwin. Sydney, Melbourne and going back home.
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Episode 78: Liam Thomas Bailey Interview (Fiddle, five-string banjo, singing)
November 30th, 2020 | 2 hrs 21 mins
depression, fiddle, five-string banjo, irish music podcast, liam bailey, psilocybin mushrooms, psychedelics, singing
Out of The Wind, Into the Sun: depression, loss, and the therapeutic power of psilocybin mushrooms. All of everything in a single tune. 'Keeping myself in the air as an artist.' The road, the weight, a writer not writing. Bruce Springsteen, Cillian Vallely, Jon Bon Jovi and a little bit o' John Denver.
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Episode 71: Cli Donnellan Interview (Fiddle)
October 9th, 2020 | 1 hr 33 mins
cli donnellan, fiddle, interview
The elusive nya! Making tunes your own, ornamentation and phrasing and the old East Clare style. Francie Donnellan, Seamus Bugler, Martin Woods and a tune by the stove. Learning, loving, leaving the music, and returning. 'Songs My Father Sang,' the journey, knowing yourself and the truth in music.
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Episode 70: Mary McEvilly-Butler Interview (Fiddle)
October 6th, 2020 | 1 hr 55 mins
fiddle, interview, mary mcevilly-butler
A Supergroup at the National Celtic Festival. Remembering and forgetting the names of tunes. Ballintubber, County Mayo and musicians in the house. The freedom of the open road, to Boston and Australia. Maintaining a love of kids even when you've been teaching for twenty years or so, and fostering a growth mindset - in children, and yourself.
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Episode 57: Aifric Boylan Interview (Fiddle)
July 6th, 2020 | 1 hr 38 mins
aifric boylan, cellbridge, fiddle, kildare
Playing at your first Fleadh, hearing the ocean in the music and searching out the rarest old tunes. Learning from older players, driving to sessions with your dad and a road trip to a Belfast terraced house in search of a fiddle.
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Episode 51: Caity Brennan Interview (Fiddle) - The Blarney Pilgrims Traditional Irish Music Podcast
May 26th, 2020 | 1 hr 29 mins
austral, caity brennan, fiddle, lake school, woodford folk festival
On growing up with traditional Irish music, on taking ownership, on finding festivals, on 92.7 Fresh Fm, on Austral and creating a dance party, and losing yourself at Woodford Folk Festival