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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Signup to Generate a PitchThe 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.
Recent episodes include "Ep.71 - Fiddle-player Martin Hayes" (12 February 2025, 40 minutes), "Ep. 70 - Kathleen Loughnane" (23 September 2024, 35 minutes), and "Ep. 69 - The Willie Clancy Summer School in pictures with Tony Kearns" (7 September 2024, 29 minutes).
The Rolling Wave publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 22 episodes.
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The Rolling Wave is a music podcast with 22 episodes published.
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In this episode, Aoife is joined by fiddle-player Martin Hayes. Martin has chosen a selection of music for us to play on the programme, which, for him, are formative recordings and ones to which he returns all the time.
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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.
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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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In this episode Aoife meets harper and CEO of Harp Ireland, Lauren Ní Néill.
In this episode Toner Quinn talks to Aoife about his new book 'What Ireland can teach the world about music and other essays'.
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In this episode I'm joined by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Dermot McLaughlin to talk about some of the great names in Donegal fiddle playing.
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In this episode we're celebrating 40 years of the work of Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí in the company of some of its founding members and a host of great fiddle players.
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A special interview with composer, fiddle and piano player Charlie Lennon recorded in Stiúideó Cuan in Galway in advance of a concert in celebration of Charlie's music.
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Zoë Conway joins Aoife to talk about her newly composed suite of music, From a Forest to a Fiddle and we also hear from Jim McKillop whose fiddle making process is documented and celebrated through music and film as...
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In this episode Conor Caldwell talks about how jazz culture in Ireland in the early 20th century influenced Irish traditional musicians and made its way into the repertoire of players like John Doherty and others.
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In this episode we’re celebrating the iconic album The Liffey Banks from fiddle player Tommie Potts, first released in 1972 by Claddagh Records. With contributions from Seán Óg Potts, Martin Hayes, Aoife Ní Bhriain...
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In 2009 we broadcast an edition of The Arts Show on RTÉ Radio 1 celebrating 50 years of Claddagh Records. A new book by James Morrissey about Garech de Brún and Claddagh Records 'Real to Reel' has just been published...
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In this episode Aoife's guest is musician Karen Ryan, a member of the band The London Lasses who are celebrating 25 years together this year. Karen has chosen music from some of the legendary figures she met growing up...
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In this episode Aoife talks to accordion player and composer Jackie Daly about his life in music and especially about his new book of tunes ‘The Jackie Daly Collection’. This programme was first broadcast on July 23rd...
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Almost 100 years ago Donegal woman Anna John Chiot was visited by collectors from the Irish Folklore Commission. They recorded many songs from her and fiddle player Paul O’Shaughnessy has just published 128 of them in a...
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