Blarney Pilgrims Irish Music Podcast

In Portland, Oregon, Kevin Burke made me (Dom) a cup of tea and we sat in his living room for two hours on a sunny, Frid... Read more

Liz Carroll takes some time out from the QuasiTrad Tunes Camp. Along the way she plays us some tunes, demonstrate some b... Read more

Music is the opposite of work. Learning and re-learning how to play. And practicing as far away from the rest of your fa... Read more

So - when it comes to this episode, we're nearly lost for words. It's engrossing. A deep dive into a sea teeming with li... Read more

Part one of our two "best of" episodes. This episode features nothing but tunes and songs from our previous guests, and ... Read more

Wallpaper factories; snowy German winters; yoga gurus and music as therapy. From his childhood home in Kildare, to find... Read more

The mystery of Irish music; Yehudi Menuhin playing the shit out of Stephane Grappelli arrangements; late night sessions ... Read more

Banjo in Irish music, where "the session" was born, musical accents and so much more. While in Drogheda to receive The ... Read more

"Nobody listens! Nobody. They think they're listening, but they're not actually listening." Recorded live at the Nation... Read more

Recorded live at the 2019 Guildford Banjo Jamboree. Banjo player and guitarist Tony O'Rourke chats with us about the con... Read more

On Growing up in Birmingham, on the Sligo-Roscommon style, on slowing down Seamus Tansey records, on the Birmingham Ceil... Read more

The Mountains of Pomeroy with Eileen O'Brien at 4 in the morning, the session as a conversation, finding your own style,... Read more

The National Museum of Australia video where Angus plays his great-great grandfather's violin can be found here: https:/... Read more

When we started talking about creating a podcast, Paddy Fitzgerald's name was pretty much at the top of the list of peop... Read more

Recorded at the Lake School of Celtic Music Song and Dance in Koroit, Victoria, Jack Brennan of Adelaide talks to us abo... Read more

Recorded live at the National Celtic Festival in Victoria, Australia. Maggie Carty joins us for a few tunes and a chat a... Read more

Concertina player Cathy Custy on quietly slipping into a session after not playing in public for many years. On gently m... Read more

The great Joe Fitzgerald, of east Clare and Melbourne. On first hearing his mother play the melodeon. On drovers, the bu... Read more

Maori pianos, famine roads, the Aussie bush to sponsored women in the 1830s. Jamie can really tell a story, not to menti... Read more

Finding a set of Uileann Pipes in Yackandandah, VIC; getting your eyes gouged and goolies grabbed in the south of France... Read more