RTÉ Radio 1

The Rolling Wave

Music EN ↓ 4 episodes

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.

Be sure to visit the podcast's website and support the creator: www.rte.ie

Author

RTÉ Radio 1

Episodes

Ep.71 - Fiddle-player Martin Hayes 12.02.2025 39:52

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.

Ep. 70 - Kathleen Loughnane 23.09.2024 35:21

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.

Ep. 69 - The Willie Clancy Summer School in pictures with Tony Kearns 07.09.2024 28:38

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.

Ep. 68 - Josephine Marsh - 111 Original Irish Music Compositions 30.08.2024 31:04

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.