Past Events
Performance in Germany 2024
Compánach A concert of Traditional music from all parts of Ireland Performed by Fintan Vallely (concert flute), John Kelly (fiddle), Mark Redmond (Irish pipes) Thursday 09 May in O’Reilly’s pub,…
Read MoreFlute teaching at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy July 9-14
Edward Bunting festival, Belfast, 17 February, 1pm
Fintan Vallely will speak on the significance of the 18th-19th century collector Edward Bunting, and the importance of Charlotte Milligan Fox’s publication of his papers. A Saturday 1pm talk, illustrated…
Read MoreCompánach in Belgium, Luxembourg & Cork
Compánach will be performed at: Brussels Tradfest on June 7th Luxembourg Conservatoire de la Ville on June 9th with guest singer Karan Casey. It will be featured also at Cork…
Read MorePowerful new paintings of musicians in Dublin
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Read MoreIrish Traditional Music 100 years on from 1916
A concert series in Germany with Gerry O’Connor, Fintan Vallely and Tiarnán Ó Duinnchin playing music that has blossomed in the new Irish state over the century since 1916. Some…
Read MoreChina meets Ireland – Traditional and new Irish & Chinese music
China Meets Ireland is an inter-cultural programme begun in 2014. It presents two poles of Chinese and Irish musics featuring traditional Chinese music from a thousand year tradition and new…
Read MoreDo singing practices need a re-think? Article in Béaloideas 81
The hind teat: strategic misassumption in the promotion of Traditional song in the English language. An article originally given as a paper at “A Changing Traditional Landscape : The Folklore, Song…
Read MoreFrom amateur professional to professional amateur … reflections on the Traditional singing genre (Monaco, PGIL)
“A Changing Traditional Landscape : The Folklore, Song and Music of Ireland” – symposium in the Princess Grace Library, Monaco, September 2012. Session title: Connecting the Dots: Identifying Key Changes and Developments…
Read MoreNorth Atlantic Fiddle Organisation Convention 2012 (University of Ulster, Derry)
Fintan Vallely is the academic convenor of the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention’s biennial conference in late June, 2012. This is a unique conference set in a week of exceptional music performances…
Read MoreCompanion selected as 11th out of 7,000 in US books rating
The Companion to Irish Traditional Music has been awarded a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) for 2012. Coinciding with this award is the Companion’s release on Friday, 1st February as an…
Read MoreFlute performance in ‘News’, by Brendan Ellis, at Ranelaghfest, Dublin
‘News’, a one-hour mosaic of music and poetry as part of a Ranelagh district community event. Core of the event is c. 1000-year-old poetry in Irish composed by poets who…
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