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How an Irish festival is bringing the magic of Ireland to Finlandâs Arctic Circle (opens the original)
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I took a metaphorical trip to Finland earlier this month â without ever leaving Ireland! Last Friday, the Residence of the Finnish Ambassador to Ireland in Shrewsbury Road in Dublin hosted the launch of the 19th Oulu Irish Festival, the most northerly Irish festival in the world, in a year in which the city is a European Capital of Culture. For the past 19 years, the Oulu Irish Festival has filled the dark Nordic nights with the sounds of Irish music and storytelling, and this monthâs event,
âItâs like the music comes from another world and I just channel itâ: Co Down musician Bróna McVittie on taking inspiration from traditional folklore and fairy tales (opens the original)
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With the weather turning increasingly gloomy, it was a treat to get speaking to singer-songwriter, harpist and biologist, Bróna McVittie - first of all about the sunny south of Spain, where she spends a lot of time. âMy wee place is on the coast in the province of Granada,â she reveals. âItâs called Salobreña and itâs absolutely beautiful. Thereâs a rock with an Arab castle on top and then this little old white town spiralling around it down to the sea. Itâs really, really nice.â
âYou might see us do something never to be repeatedâ: Why this special team-up of Irish trad legends is an unmissable proposition (opens the original)
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âDonât bury me cos Iâm not dead yet,â sang Elvis Costello in Mystery Dance and the same sentiment could be conveyed by local styles of traditional Irish music, long thought to be with OâLeary in the grave. But the intangible seems to defy the ages, and Kerry slides, Donegal fiddling and Connemara sean-nós are alive and well and, as they say across the pond, kicking ass. The enigmatic pure drop â if it even exists â has been joined by a plethora of instruments, instrumentation, tim
âTraditional music could be seen as a threat, or you could be intimidated, or the police could arrive and close the barâ: Marie Jones (opens the original)
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Imagine being attacked by a set of uilleann pipes, like the crazed octopus they resemble. Or being hit on the head by a piano accordion. Or being trapped inside a bodhrán. It sounds funny now, but there was a time when traditional instruments â and the people who played them â were viewed as backward peasants making unfathomable noises more suited to a science fiction film than a concert hall. Or, as playwright Marie Jones puts it, traditional music âcould be seen as a threat, or you coul
âThereâll be songs that people will get emotional to. We deliberately try and do thatâ: The Druids (opens the original)
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Last Thursday, for the first time ever, I was interviewing a folk band when I thought I was going to get punched. Luckily, The Druids are far too nice for fisticuffs and later told me it was the best interview they had ever done. Phew! The Druids are Mick OâBrien, Gary Lawlor, Neil Harney and Kevin Rooney. Mick, Gary and Kevin and I were sitting upstairs in The Empire Music Hall in Belfast where the band were doing publicity for their upcoming gig at the venue on August 3 as part of Fleadh Che
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