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
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The Blarney Pilgrims Traditional Irish Music Podcast Episode 53: Don Meade (Harmonica)
Irish tunes on the harmonica - seriously awesome. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Eddie Clark, New York’s Irish music scene in the ’80s; Bill De Blasio’s busted progressive cred and The Catskills Irish Arts Week.
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The Blarney Pilgrims Podcast Episode 46: Hannah Harris (Fiddle)
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The Blarney Pilgrims Podcast Episode 44: Cameron Mather (Banjo)
Talks about the strange, difficult moment we’re all facing. About isolation and its challenges; his love of Irish music; hardcore training to compete in the Fleadh; the Sydney session scene and the beauty of being a teacher.
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The Blarney Pilgrims Podcast Episode 27: Ciaran O’Grady (Concertina)
Growing up in Luton, meeting Francis Droney, the anatomy of the concertina, English Folk music, and many many thoughts on identity, home and what "being Irish" means.
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The Blarney Pilgrims Podcast Episode 22: Liz Carroll (Fiddle)
The creative process; competitive fiddling; trying people on for size; listening for the rhythm of a session; and playing without expectations.
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The Blarney Pilgrims Traditional Irish Music Podcast Episode 54: Máirtín Staunton (Flute)
The northern flute style; working the bar at Matt Molloy’s pub; capturing songs for posterity; on sean-nós singing, music as a release; life in Boston, and the regional sound of Melbourne
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The Blarney Pilgrims Podcast Episode 12: John Carty
Banjo in Irish music, where "the session" was born, musical accents and so much more. While in Drogheda to receive The Flanagan Brothers’ Award, John Carty stopped past Darren’s Mam and Dad’s to sit down, chat and play us some tunes.
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The Blarney Pilgrims Podcast Episode 36: Sean Lally (Uilleann Pipes)
Floating Tionóls, learning traditional Irish music, temperamental reeds, South American Shaman, growing up in Manchester, the importance of learning on a good instrument and carrying on a cultural tradition.
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The Blarney Pilgrims Irish Music Podcast Episode 49: Ewen Baker (Fiddle)
J. S. Bach and Kerry Slides; St Anne’s Reel and The Bushwhackers; collaboration and individualism; coming to terms with our own imperfections but still getting stuff done. And this: ‘When you’re playing with other people…and you get that feeling that is above and beyond life, in a sense. Where you just go, this is why I exist. This is as happy as this bunch of cells can be, right now, on this planet.’
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