It was there that he became involved in the folk music scene and became ... Dylan said Liam Clancy was “the best ballad ...

Speaking among centuries-old ballad sheets and wax phonograph cylinders, Ms Gebruers also notes that Irish traditional music is a “living tradition” which the Archive is collecting on an ...

Fairytale of New York is more than just a holiday ditty it has the power to bring grown Irish ... well as that song has done … It is at once a twisted love song, an emigrant ballad, and an ...

One Hand Clapping are a band based in the North West of England and play a driving Celtic folk rock but with the occassional Irish Ballad thrown into the mix. The type of material played ranges ...

I had heard traditional music before The Pogues ... Shane was steeped in the corpus of older Irish ballads he heard from his mother, Therese, and on childhood trips to Tipperary from England.