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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. For rights reasons the music here is shorter than in the original broadcast. To listen to the full version go to www.rte.ie/radio 1/the-rolling-wave and click on the relevant date. Listen live on RTÉ Radio 1 every Sunday night at 9pm.

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Ep.71 - Fiddle-player Martin Hayes

2025/02/12

In this episode, Aoife is joined by fiddle-player Martin Hayes. Martin has chosen a selection of music for us to play on the programme, which, for him, are formative recordings and ones to which he returns all the time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 70 - Kathleen Loughnane

2024/09/23

In this episode Aoife talks to Kathleen Loughnane about her work on the Patrick O'Neill manuscripts and about learning harp, playing with Dordán, her own approach to tunes, and the popularity of the harp today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 69 - The Willie Clancy Summer School in pictures with Tony Kearns

2024/09/07

Photographer Tony Kearns has been taking photos at the Willie Clancy Summer School since 1992 and in this episode he talks about some of those pictures, the musicians in them and his own relationship with the summer school.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 68 - Josephine Marsh - 111 Original Irish Music Compositions

2024/08/30

Musician and composer Josephine Marsh has just published a new book of her compositions and in this episode she talks about the stories behind the tunes as well as her own route into music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 67 - Memories of Denis Murphy (Part 2)

2024/05/31

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 66 - Memories of Denis Murphy (Part 1)

2024/05/24

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 65 - Seán McElwain on the music of the Sliabh Beagh region

2024/05/17

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 64 - Lauren Ní Néill

2024/04/26

In this episode Aoife meets harper and CEO of Harp Ireland, Lauren Ní Néill.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 63 - Toner Quinn 'What Ireland can teach the world about music'

2024/04/19

In this episode Toner Quinn talks to Aoife about his new book 'What Ireland can teach the world about music and other essays'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 62 - Legendary Donegal fiddle players

2024/02/24

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 61 - 40 years of Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí

2024/02/24

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 60 - Charlie Lennon

2023/12/22

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 59 - Zoë Conway and Jim McKillop

2023/12/01

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 58 - Traditional Music and Jazz in the early 20th Century

2023/11/09

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 57 - The Liffey Banks by Tommie Potts

2023/10/12

In this episode we’re celebrating the iconic album The Liffey Banks from fiddle player Tommie Potts, first released in 1972 by Claddagh Records. With contributions from Seán Óg Potts, Martin Hayes, Aoife Ní Bhriain, James Kelly, and the voices of Garech de Brún, Paddy Moloney, Peadar O’Loughlin, Seán Potts and Tommie Potts himself.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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fungirls 2021/12/07

Love Trad!

I just found this podcast but I’ve been a fan of trad for a little while now. I love Aoife and all the wonderful musicians she showcases. Just lovely....

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