Paddy Moloney is the band's leader, and composes or arranges most of the band's music. While the band's members changed numerous times in the band's early history, the membership solidified in 1976 when Kevin Conneff replaced Peadar Mercier. From then until 2002, members included: Paddy Moloney (uilleann pipes, tin whistle, button accordion, bodhrán) Matt Molloy (flute, tin whistle) Kevin Conneff (bodhrán, vocals) Seán Keane (fiddle, tin whistle) Martin Fay (fiddle, bones) Derek Bell (Irish harp, keyboard instruments, oboe) In 2002, Fa ...

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The Chieftains, The Chieftains - Band members, The Chieftains - Discography, The Chieftains - Former members, The Chieftains - Sound samples

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The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards celebrate outstanding achievement during the previous year within the field of folk music. The awards have been given annually since 2000 by British radio station BBC Radio 2. The award winners are chosen by a panel of 120 experts in the field of folk music, including broadcasters, journalists, festival organisers, agents and promoters. The award ceremony, which takes place early in February, has been presented since its inception by Mike Harding, and broadcast on BBC Radio 2. In 2004 the awar ...

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• BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - Award Winners
• BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - 2000
• BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - 2001
• BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - 2002
• BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - 2003
• BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - 2004
• BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - 2005

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Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. Folk music arose, and best survives, in societies not yet affected by mass communication and the commercialization of culture. It normally was shared by the entire community (and its performance not strictly limited to a special class of expert performers), and was transmitted by word of mouth. During the 20th and 21st century, the term folk music took on a second meaning: it describes a particular kind of popular music which is culturally desc ...

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• Folk music - Defining folk song
• Folk music - Subjects of folk music
• Folk music - Variation in folk music
• Folk music - The decline of folk traditions in modern societies
• Folk music - Stage I: Urban influence
• Folk music - Stage II: Replacement of folk music by popular music
• Folk music - Stage III: Loss of musical ability in the community
• Folk music - Regional variation
• Folk music - Fieldwork and scholarship on folk music
• Folk music - Folk revivals
• Folk music - The emergence of popular folk artists
• Folk music - The blending of folk and popular genres
• Folk music - Pastiche and parody
• Folk music - Media

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The bodhrán (IPA [ˈbɔːrɑːn] or [ˈbaʊrɑːn]; plural bodhráin) is an Irish frame drum ranging in anywhere from 10" to 26" in diameter, with most drums measuring from 14" to 18". The sides of the drum are 3 1/2" to 8" deep. A goat skin head is tacked to one side (although nowadays, synthetic heads, or new materials like kangaroo skin, are sometimes used). The other side is open ended for one hand to be placed ...

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• Bodhrán - Playing
• Bodhrán - Players
• Bodhrán - Origin

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George Ivan "Van" Morrison (born August 31, 1945) is a British singer and songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He plays a variety of instruments, including the guitar, harmonica, keyboards, and saxophone. Morrison first rose to prominence as the lead singer of the British band Them, penning their seminal 1966 hit "Gloria". A few years later, Morrison left the band for a successful solo career. Morrison has pursued an idiosyncratic musical path. Much of his music is tightly structured around the conventions of Ameri ...

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• Van Morrison - History
• Van Morrison - Early History
• Van Morrison - 1960s
• Van Morrison - 1970s
• Van Morrison - 1980s
• Van Morrison - 1990s
• Van Morrison - 2000s
• Van Morrison - Influence
• Van Morrison - Awards and Recognition
• Van Morrison - Discography
• Van Morrison - Albums
• Van Morrison - Compilations
• Van Morrison - Selected Singles
• Van Morrison - See Also

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Celtic music is a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Western Europe. The term Celtic music may refer to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded popular music with only a superficial resemblance to folk styles of the Celtic peoples. Most typically, the term Celtic music is applied to the music of Ireland and Scotland, because both places have produced well-known distinctive styles which actually have genuine commonality and ...

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• Celtic music - Divisions
• Celtic music - Definition debate
• Celtic music - Forms
• Celtic music - Festivals
• Celtic music - Modern Adaptations
• Celtic music - Musicians
• Celtic music - Notes

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Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe". Bagpipes - Overview. A bagpipe is a wind instrument consisting of one or more musical pipes which are fed continuously by a reservoir of air in a bag. Air is supplied either by the player's breath (via a blowpipe), or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way valve which prevents air from retur ...

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• Bagpipes - Overview
• Bagpipes - History
• Bagpipes - Types
• Bagpipes - The great highland bagpipe
• Bagpipes - The Irish Uilleann bagpipe
• Bagpipes - The Northumbrian smallpipe
• Bagpipes - The Scottish smallpipe
• Bagpipes - The biniou
• Bagpipes - French and Occitan bagpipes
• Bagpipes - The border pipe
• Bagpipes - The gaita
• Bagpipes - The Brian Boru bagpipe
• Bagpipes - Categories
• Bagpipes - Other types
• Bagpipes - Bagpipes in non-traditional forms of music
• Bagpipes - Classical works featuring bagpipes
• Bagpipes - Bagpipes in jazz
• Bagpipes - Bagpipes in rock
• Bagpipes - Bagpipes in other forms of music
• Bagpipes - Bagpipe aphorisms
• Bagpipes - Bagpipe humour
• Bagpipes - Notes

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Music from the United Kingdom has achieved great international popularity since the 1960s, when a wave of British musicians helped to popularize rock and roll. Since then, the UK has produced numerous popular performers in far-ranging fields from heavy metal to folk-rock and drum n bass, as well as undergoing a renaissance in the ancient forms of folk music indigenous to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Anguilla - Bermuda - Cayman Islands - Gibraltar - Montserrat - Turks and Caicos - Virgin Islands Mu ...

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• Music of the United Kingdom - Folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - English folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Irish folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Scottish folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Welsh folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Early British popular music
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1950s and 60s: Importation and Exportation
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1970s: Rock splinters Jamaican and Indian music
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1980s
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1990s: Britpop and techno
• Music of the United Kingdom - Samples

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Barry Lyndon (1975) is a film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. It recounts the exploits of an unscrupulous 18th century adventurer (Barry Lyndon né Redmond Barry), particularly his rise and fall within English society. Ryan O'Neal stars as the title character. After 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick began planning a film he hoped to make about Napoleon. When he learned, however, that a competing film was being developed (Sergei Bondarchuk's Wate ...

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• Barry Lyndon - Trivia

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Main article: Fiddle One of the most important instruments in the traditional repertoire, the fiddle is played differently in widely-varying regional styles. Modern performers include Martin Hayes, Paul O'Shaughnessy, Matt Cranitch, Frankie Gavin, the Glackin brothers, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, James Kelly, Tommy Peoples, Maire Breatnach and Gerry O'Connor. Sligo fiddlers like Michael Coleman, James Morrison, Paddy Killoran did much to popularise Irish music in the States in the 1920s and 1930s. The best-known ...

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Music of Ireland, Music of Ireland - Social Factors, Music of Ireland - Traditional music, Music of Ireland - Music for Dancing, Music of Ireland - Instruments Used in Traditional Irish Music, Music of Ireland - Late Nineteenth Century revival and the Twentieth Century, Music of Ireland - Pub sessions, Music of Ireland - 1960s and 70s: Revival...again, Music of Ireland - Late 20th century: Rock and More..., Music of Ireland - Samples

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Main list of visual artists: List of Irish artists List of Irish people - Architecture. Eileen Gray James Hoban, designer of White House Kevin Roche Sam Stephenson Edward Lovett Pearce List of Irish people - Actors. Patrick Bergin Pierce Brosnan, Navan-born James Bond Gabriel Byrne Cyril Cusack, born in South Africa Niamh Cusack Sorcha Cusack Daniel Day-Lew ...

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List of Irish people, List of Irish people - Art, List of Irish people - Architecture, List of Irish people - Actors, List of Irish people - Music, List of Irish people - Dance, List of Irish people - Writing, List of Irish people - Business, List of Irish people - Politics, List of Irish people - Science Education and Technology, List of Irish people - Sport, List of Irish people - Other, List of Irish people - Notable Irish people selection, List of Irish people - Notable people of Irish descent

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List of folk musicians - Indigenous Australians. David Hudson Kawisha Mazzella Archie Roach ...

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List of folk musicians, List of folk musicians - Andean, List of folk musicians - Armenia, List of folk musicians - Australia, List of folk musicians - Indigenous Australians, List of folk musicians - Brazil, List of folk musicians - Canada, List of folk musicians - Quebec, List of folk musicians - Chile, List of folk musicians - China, List of folk musicians - Czech Republic, List of folk musicians - Moravia, List of folk musicians - Finland, List of folk musicians - France, List of folk musicians - Brittany, List of folk musicians - Greece, List of folk musicians - Dhimotika / palea dhimotika, List of folk musicians - Ireland, List of folk musicians - Italy, List of folk musicians - Japan, List of folk musicians - Mexico, List of folk musicians - Norway, List of folk musicians - Peru, List of folk musicians - Russia, List of folk musicians - Spain, List of folk musicians - Sweden, List of folk musicians - Turkey, List of folk musicians - United Kingdom, List of folk musicians - England, List of folk musicians - Northumbria, List of folk musicians - Scotland, List of folk musicians - Wales, List of folk musicians - Slovenia, List of folk musicians - United States, List of folk musicians - Appalachian, List of folk musicians - Cajun and zydeco, List of folk musicians - Mainstream, List of folk musicians - Irish-American

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When the show was launched, its original presenter was Gay Byrne, a young Irish broadcaster who had been working with Granada Television in Britain. Byrne remained the presenter for thirty-seven years until retiring in 1999. His 37 year stewardship of The Late Late Show means that he has hosted a chat show longer than any other presenter. Indeed, Byrne's style of presentation is credited as contributing largely to the show's success. Internationally Byrne's presentation style has been studied ...

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The Late Late Show, The Late Late Show - Hosts, The Late Late Show - Gay Byrne, The Late Late Show - Producer and director, The Late Late Show - Final Show, The Late Late Show - Frank Hall, The Late Late Show - Pat Kenny, The Late Late Show - Choosing Kenny, The Late Late Show - Rival shows, The Late Late Show - The Live Mike, The Late Late Show - Saturday Live & Kenny Live, The Late Late Show - Parkinson & The Late Late Show on Channel 4, The Late Late Show - The Dunphy Show, The Late Late Show - Tubridy Tonight, The Late Late Show - Famous or infamous guests, The Late Late Show - Artists whose first television appearance was on the Late Late Show, The Late Late Show - External link

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In Celtic Music: A Complete Guide, June Skinner Sawyers acknowledges six Celtic nationalities divided into two groups according to their linguistic heritage. The Q-Celtic nationalities are the Irish, Scottish and Manx peoples, while the P-Celtic groups are the Cornish, Bretons and Welsh peoples. Sawyer also mentions the Celtiberian languages as part of P-Celtic. The Breton musician Alan Stivell uses a similar dichotomy, between the Gaelic (Irish and Scottish) branch and the Brythonic (Breton and Welsh) group, which differentiat ...

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Celtic music, Celtic music - Divisions, Celtic music - Definition debate, Celtic music - Forms, Celtic music - Festivals, Celtic music - Modern Adaptations, Celtic music - Musicians, Celtic music - Notes

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On the island of Ireland, most people consider themselves to be descended from a mixture of three broad groups: the nameless, prehistoric indigenous people(s) of the isles; the successive waves from continental Europe who arrived in the centuries BC, and subsequent groups (Vikings, Normans, English and Lowland Scots) who either invaded or settled Ireland from the Middle Ages onwards. The names the ancient peoples of Ireland (creators of the Ceide Fields and Newgrange) used for themselves are not known, nor are their language(s). As la ...

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Irish people, Irish people - Descent, Irish people - Surnames, Irish people - Personal Names forenames, Irish people - Recent history, Irish people - Irish diaspora, Irish people - Notable Irish people selection

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Traditional instruments in Galicia include the well-known Gaita, a kind of bagpipe, as well as an array of percussion and wind instruments. Music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias - Wind instruments. Folk wind instrument of the area include the pito, a kind of conival-bored whistle with seven holes in the front and one in the back, which is played in a similar manner to the gaita punteiro. While it was traditionally made in E-flat, the instrument has been revitalized by Antón Corral, who makes them in D. ...

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Music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias, Music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias - History, Music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias - Revival, Music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias - Traditional instruments, Music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias - Wind instruments, Music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias - String instruments, Music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias - Percussion, Music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias - Gaita, Music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias - Songs, Music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias - Dances

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A ring of coastal mountains surrounds low central plains. The highest peak is Carrauntuohill (Irish: Corrán Tuathail), which is 1041 m (3414 feet). The island is bisected by the River Shannon, at 259 km (161 mi) the longest river in Ireland or Britain. The island's lush vegetation, a product of its mild climate and frequent but soft rainfall, earns it the sobriquet "Emerald Isle". The island's area is 84,079 km² (32,477 mile²). Ireland is divided into four provinces: Connacht, Leinster, Munster ...

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Ireland, Ireland - Geography, Ireland - Politics, Ireland - Flag of Ireland, Ireland - History, Ireland - History since partition, Ireland - Irish Independence: The Irish Free State Éire Ireland, Ireland - Northern Ireland, Ireland - Sport, Ireland - Culture, Ireland - Literature and the arts, Ireland - Music and dance, Ireland - Demographics, Ireland - Infrastructure, Ireland - Transport, Ireland - Energy

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Spain's autonomous regions have many of their own distinctive folk traditions, especially in Basque Country, Galicia and Catalonia. There is also a movement of folk-based singer-songwriters with politically active lyrics, paralleling similar developments across Latin America and Portugal. Music of Spain - Basque Country. Main article: Basque music The Basques are a unique ethnic group, unrelated to any other in Spain and with uncertain connections abroad. The main form of Basque folk music is ...

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Music of Spain, Music of Spain - Origins, Music of Spain - Early history, Music of Spain - Renaissance, Music of Spain - 17th and 18th centuries, Music of Spain - Pop Music, Music of Spain - Ye-Yé, Music of Spain - Performers, Music of Spain - Flamenco, Music of Spain - Regional folk music, Music of Spain - Basque Country, Music of Spain - Balearic Islands, Music of Spain - Canary Islands, Music of Spain - Murcia, Music of Spain - Extremadura, Music of Spain - Castile Madrid and Leon, Music of Spain - Navarre and La Rioja, Music of Spain - Aragon, Music of Spain - Valencia, Music of Spain - Catalonia, Music of Spain - Galicia Cantabria and Asturias, Music of Spain - Andalusia, Music of Spain - Samples

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From September through June, Classics Series concerts are performed Friday through Sunday in Uihlein Hall at the Marcus Center. Delfs conducts a number of the programs, and guest conductors have included Lu Jia and artist-in-residence Nicholas McGegan. The series includes performances of works by Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, Brahms, Dvorak and Beethoven. MSO Commissions include Glass’ Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra and Wuorinen’s Symphony Seven. Frequent appearances by the acclaimed Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, under Director Lee Erickson, includ ...

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Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra - Concert series, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra - Touring, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra - Education programs, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra - Recordings and broadcasts

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LBS has changed members numerous times (not unusual for folk groups!). Although Founder Yves Lambert has left the group, LBS continues to perform and wow audiences far and wide. The composition of the band has changed too, and with it the sound. LBS started out with a very French Canadian feel with guitar, accordion and fiddle but has expanded to include other styles and intruments. With a new wave of young musicians joining the g ...

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La Bottine Souriante, La Bottine Souriante - Members, La Bottine Souriante - Discography

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