ComhaltasLive
ComhaltasLive is the daily internet video programme of Irish traditional music produced by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. Each week's 20-minute programme is divided into daily segments featuring musicians from around the world, young and old.
Here are a few ways to browse the music:
| By Instrument | By Tune | By Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Fiddle | Reel | Session |
| Flute | Jig | Competition |
| Button Accordion | Hornpipe | Concert |
| Concertina | Slow Air | Fleadh Cheoil |
| Uilleann Pipes | Song | Convention |
| Banjo | Slip Jig | Céilí Band |
| Whistle | Dance | Fleadh Nua |
| Harp | March | Scoil Éigse |
You may also see the weekly list of ComhaltasLive programmes listed chronologically on the 'Programmes' page.
Whatever your tastes, enjoy the music, and be sure to check back soon, as we upload a new video clip every day.
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- ComhaltasLive #291-3: Street Session with Ita and Matt Cunnigham
- 3 July 2009
A street session recorded at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2003 in Clonmel featuring Galway musicians Ita and Matt Cunnigham with a lively selection of polkas. Ita won the All-Ireland senior fiddle title in 2000.
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- ComhaltasLive #291-2: Áine Bird on fiddle
- 2 July 2009
Fiddle player Áine Bird from Tara, Co. Meath plays “Christy Barry’s jigs”.
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- ComhaltasLive #291-1: Damien McKee and Séan Óg Graham
- 1 July 2009
Co. Antrim musicians Damien McKee (button accordion) and Séan Óg Graham (guitar) play a set of reels, concluding with “Paddy Mill’s Dream” and “Hughie Gillespies’s”.
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- ComhaltasLive #290 (Full Programme)
- 29 June 2009
This week we present some very talented traditional Irish musicians: Carmel O’Dea (fiddle), Bríd Harper (fiddle) with Danny O’Mahony (button accordion), Evelyn Healy (fiddle), Katie O’Sullivan (concertina), the great John Regan (button accordion) and Erin McGeown (fiddle) with Colin Greene (banjo).
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- ComhaltasLive #290-6: Erin McGeown and Colin Greene play some Reels
- 28 June 2009
A set of reels played by fiddle player Erin McGeown from Craigavon, Co. Armagh and Colin Greene (banjo) from Cahir, Co. Tipperary. This selection was recorded in 2003 at the Comhaltas headquarters, Cultúrlann na hÉireann in Monkstown, Co. Dublin.
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- ComhaltasLive #290-5: John Regan on the Button Accordion
- 27 June 2009
Button accordion player John Regan, a Sligo native and now living in Dublin, plays a set of jigs: “Dominick’s Farewell to Cashel” composed by Josie McDermott and an old version of “Fasten the Leggin”. John was All-Ireland Champion in 1970.
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- ComhaltasLive #290-4: Katie O’Sullivan on Concertina
- 26 June 2009
Two reels, “The broken pledge” and “Martin Wynne’s”, played on concertina by Katie O’ Sullivan from the Murroe/Cappamore branch of Comhaltas in Limerick. As well as teaching traditional music, Katie also teaches clasical piano.
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- ComhaltasLive #290-3: A set of jigs played by Evelyn Healy
- 25 June 2009
“The Glendarragh Jig” was composed by accordionist and teacher Willie Larkin from Templeglantine, Co. Limerick. The jig is played here by fiddle player Evelyn Healy, also from West Limerick, who learned her music from Willie Larkin. She concludes the set with a jig, “The Jocelyn Tree”, which she learned from the playing of Oisín Mac Diarmada. This jig was composed by Donegal fiddle player, Tommy Peoples. Tommy also plays it as a slow air on his album, “The Quiet Glen” released in 2005.