Fig.1 - Poitín Making © WineMag.com A friend has asked if there are any songs or tunes about Poitín / Potcheen / The Crathur-Creatúr / Moonshine / Illegal Whiskey in Irish traditional music. "... if you know any Irish trad tunes connected with [it] beyond the familiar Tommy Makem like tunes we hear all the time. (Including tunes connected by ...

Siberia Extreme - Chyskyyrai, Tim Hodgkinson and Ken Hyder (2019)Produced by Misha Maltsev © iLRLP001 Indigenous LifeformsView on Discogs.com or at Bandcamp.com Those who may be familiar with Asian indigenous music might recall the enormously successful Huun-Huur-Tu, throat singers from the Mongolian-Russian border who first recorded in ...

Seasons greetings from Outreach - here is Labrini Gioti singing on the Irish Traditional Music Archive's advent calendar, day 20.    Travel the world with ITMA. Meet musicians, singers and dancers from different countries & traditions who have made Irish traditional music their own. Day 1  Mykolas Gricka (Lithuania), Dy...

Song-tunes and Tune-songs I have setup this page to gather an index of tune-songs an song-tunes in traditional Irish music. For example, where a tune is regularly played in music sessions that also has lyrics. Or on the other hand, songs that have been sung to a tune. This is not a paper or a thesis, but an area of interest that I have ...

Outreach is delighted to announce that yet another online resource of fieldwork material has been published. Located at www.peterkennedyarchive.org, this website will be of considerable interest for researchers on Outreach and indeed any scholar researching the traditional music and song of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Subtitled, "A unique...

Saturday 30 April 2016 (10.15 – 4.30)Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 2HUHow is violence in contemporary Mexico impacting on music-making and other forms creative engagement, and conversely? What are the methodological challenges of exploring this empirically? The workshop will bring together established academics, post-doctoral scholar...

Commemorate: "mark or celebrate (an event or person) by doing or producing something." com - altogether memorate - relate On the 13th of January this year, the Irish Times carried an article entitled "Easter Rising commemorations: 50 events for 2016... Centenary of 1916 marked by offical ceremonies and hundreds of local initiatives". Apart f...

Dear Outreach friends, Perhaps you may like to know of two new websites which I recently built. The first, at https://www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk/whalsay/ This could be helpful to anyone interested in singing traditions and British/irish ballad and song repertories. It features over 100 recordings made in the Shetland island of Whalsay during my rese...

Here is a link to the resource, "Digital Dynamics Across Cultures", which is an interactive website that focuses on the cultural protocols of the Warumungu people from Central Australia. One most interesting things about this website is that the project members maintain a sophisticated method for partially or completely blocking access to certain c...