The Rolling Wave

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The Rolling Wave

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.

  1. SEP 23

    Ep. 70 - Kathleen Loughnane

    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.

    35 min

  2. SEP 7

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

    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.

    29 min

  3. AUG 30

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

    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.

    31 min

  4. MAY 31

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

    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.

    45 min

  5. MAY 24

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

    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.

    46 min

  6. MAY 17

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

    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.

    21 min

  7. APR 26

    Ep. 64 - Lauren Ní Néill

    In this episode Aoife meets harper and CEO of Harp Ireland, Lauren Ní Néill.

    32 min

  8. APR 19

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

    In this episode Toner Quinn talks to Aoife about his new book 'What Ireland can teach the world about music and other essays'.

    40 min
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About

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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  • Channel
    RTÉ
  • Creator
    RTÉ Radio 1
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © RTÉ 2024
  • Show Website
    The Rolling Wave

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