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Along with his ultra-rich vocals and large repertoire of traditional Irish songs, Iarla Ó Lionáird (pronounced ear-lah o’linnard) has taken the world of Celtic folk music by storm. Among Ireland’s leading performers of the original old-timey design, Ó Lionáird offers continued to create on his traditional origins. Furthermore to recording …

Celtic-pop music group Sin É grew from the loosely-organized Steáfán Hannigan Band, and likewise towards the acclaimed piper Hannigan also included vocalist Taz, keyboardist Mike Cosgrave, percussionist Ansuman Biswas, fiddler Teresa Heanue. Upon putting your signature on to Rhiannon Information, Sin É (“that’s it”) recruited second piper Wayne O’Grady ahead …

Generally considered the world’s best performers of traditional and contemporary Scottish music — along with justification. Silly Wizard’s music reaches once traveling and sensitive, effective and poignant, sometimes hypnotic, often funny, with delicate group interplay and virtuoso-level musicianship, especially from brothers Phil (accordion, keyboards, whistles, acoustic guitar, vocals) and Johnny …

Considered nowadays to be always a Celtic music performer, Brand-new Zealander Steven McDonald provides crossed many boundary lines, having performed rock, modern and soundtrack music, amongst various other material. He started piano lessons at age five, afterwards switching to drums and signing up for his first music group, the Strangers, …

The musical traditions of Scotland have already been combined with contemporary influences of rock, pop, jazz, and metropolitan dance music to generate the hypno-folkadelic/ambient/traditional sound of Shooglenifty. Based on the Ottawa Sunlight, the Edinburgh-based sextet can be “setting the entire world on fire making use of their very trippy mixture …

Shaun Davey is really a classical composer from Belfast whose function frequently features traditional motifs and instrumentation. He’s best known for many compositions that feature the uillean bagpipe, possibly the just bagpipe refined more than enough to sit along with a symphony orchestra.

Merging traditional Celtic fiddle with modern percussive production, Canadian duo FDLER produced their debut in 2016. The set is made up of Juno Award-winning fiddler Ashley MacIsaac and percussionist and manufacturer Jay “Sticks” Andrews. On the self-titled collaborative task FDLER, MacIsaac and Andrews mixed exciting fiddle with digital and hip-hop …