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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 group formed in 1990 and consisted of Niall Vallely on concertina, Vince Milne on fiddle, Frank Torpey on bodhran, Gerry McKee on bouzouki, and Eoin Coughlan on vocals and bass. They have been described as one of the "most popular Irish bands of the 1990s," [ 1 ] and as "one of the more innovative and fiery Irish traditional bands".
Danú is an Irish traditional music band.. The founding members of Danú (Donnchadh Gough, Dónal Clancy, Daire Bracken, and Benny McCarthy) met in Waterford in Ireland in 1994, and consolidated as a band after performing in the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in 1995.
Folk music is radical music,” he says. “There’s this perception that it’s safe, something to put on in art class. Whereas it should be, ‘ Oh my God , there’s a folk artist playing.
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 ...
This is a list of bands who play Irish folk music. For "celtic music"-inspired groups, ... Fingal (music group) Foster and Allen; Four Men and a Dog; Four to the Bar;
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 ...
Solas (Irish: ‘light’) is an American musical group officially formed in 1996, playing Irish traditional music as well as original compositions influenced by the country, rock, and Americana genres. [1]