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• Here is an RTE radio programme on Thom Moore and his songs.

• Investigate the famous Child Ballads collection of songs from Scotland and England without needing to buy all five volumes by clicking here. 

• The huge Alan Lomax Archive contains interesting recordings from Ireland in the early 1950s. There are also English and Scottish recordings, as well as many more from around the world.

• Want to know if Martin Hayes is playing near you soon? Of course you do. Check his touring schedule.

• Perhaps you like to hear good music on the radio? Clare FM has traditional music shows each evening, monday to friday. Furthermore, you can download them and listen in your own time, wherever you are. I particularly like Claire Keville's tuesday evening programme.

• Are you a guitar-player? Need to work out some weird or awkward chord? Try this.

• I always enjoy the Feakle Festival.

• The Cnoc na Gaoithe music and cultural centre in Tulla, Co. Clare is home to a very enjoyable annual festival and lots of other musical activities.

• If you think 'Bob Dylan can't sing', celebrate your wrongness by listening to him singing the traditional song Pretty Saro.

• Always wanted to hear Bob Dylan play with a full orchestra? Now you can with this four-song set from the Great Music Experience in Nara, Japan in 1994.

• If you like traditional singing you must hear the great Sean Garvey from Co. Kerry. 

• Here is Jean Redpath singing a nice version of Andrew Lammie, one of the celebrated Child Ballads.

• James Byrne played a nice version of the reel The Wheels of the World here.

• Visit artist, singer and songwriter Sophie Coyle who did the artwork for my  first CD. 

• How did ancient Greek music sound?

• Monkey Music: Which came first, language or music?

• The real Voice of Ireland: Dolores Keane singing Teddy O'Neill and Far Away in Australia and Down by the Salley Gardens.

• Some fiddle-playing tips for beginners from Charlie Lennon.

• And here Charlie Lennon plays one of his jigs A Smile From Sile.

• Here is Annmarie O'Riordan singing Erin Gra mo Chroi. 

• Who better to sing a song than Ann Kirrane? Here she sings The Green Hills of Clare. Here is Ann's website. 

• The Vanishing Ireland project, by Turtle Bunbury and James Fennell, has resulted in a few books which contain striking photographs and interviews with elderly people from around Ireland. Some of the photos are on James Fennell's website. Vanishing Ireland Volume 1 includes several musicians such as:                                                  Michael 'Patsy' Flanagan of the Tulla Ceili Band,  Pat Gleeson - fiddle-player from Offaly, Donal Duffy - piper from Louth, Robbie McMahon - singer from Spancil Hill, Co. Clare, Chris Droney, concertina-player from Bell Harbour, Co. Clare, and Paddy Canny, the great East Clare fiddle-player (no link available at present).

       The books, though quite expensive, are all beautifully produced and very worthwhile. 

• The sound of the single-stringed Bedouin fiddle; perhaps the oldest string instrument in the world. Here is more information on this instrument.

• Some Sligo fiddle music from Seamus and Manus McGuire.

• Sean Ryan plays a few nice tunes on the fiddle in this TV recording.

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