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Irish dance music is isometric and is built around patterns of bar-long melodic phrases akin to call and response.A common pattern is A Phrase, B Phrase, A Phrase, Partial Resolution, A Phrase, B Phrase, A Phrase, Final Resolution, though this is not universal; mazurkas, for example, tend to feature a C Phrase instead of a repeated A Phrase before the Partial and Final Resolutions, for example.
The Afro-Celt Sound System achieved fame adding West African influences and electronic dance rhythms in the 1990s while bands such as Kíla fuse traditional Irish with rock and world music representing the Irish tradition at world music festivals across Europe and America. The most notable fusion band in Ireland was Horslips, who combined Irish ...
Gaelic folk music or Gaelic traditional music is the folk music of Goidelic-speaking communities in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, often including lyrics in those languages. Characteristic forms of Gaelic music include sean-nós and puirt à beul singing, piobaireachd , jigs , reels , and strathspeys .
INTERVIEW: The raucous traditional folk outfit are touring the UK, causing mayhem. They stopped off to unload to Louis Chilton about Bono, the royals, posh festival audiences and why folk music ...
Pages in category "Irish folk musical groups" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. ... Fingal (music group) Foster and Allen; Four Men and ...
Traditional Irish singing is the singing of traditional songs in the native styles such as sean nós. Though some people consider sean nós to particularly refer to singing in the Irish language, the term "traditional singing" is more universally understood to encompass singing in any language, as well as lilting .
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe (the modern Celtic nations). [1] [2] It refers to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded music and the styles vary considerably to include everything from traditional music to a wide range of ...
De Dannan (originally Dé Danann) is an Irish folk music group. It was formed in 1975 by Frankie Gavin ( fiddle ), Alec Finn (guitar, bouzouki ), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh ( bodhrán ) and Charlie Piggott ( banjo ) as a result of sessions in Hughes's Pub in Spiddal , County Galway , Ireland, [ citation needed ] with Dolores Keane (vocals ...