The fiddle-playing of Dermy Diamond is the revelation on this trio recording. Although a familiar figure on the Irish traditional music scene, this is the first recording that carries his name. Spontaneous, inventive, sometimes almost carefree, his busyness in the corners of tunes brings the fiddle to the surface of the music again and again.
Category Archives: The Journal of Music
The Art of Money
How are arts organisations and artists going to get through this recession? This is hardly an ideal time to ask this; the right time was a couple of years before it happened. Nonetheless, as budgets continue to disintegrate, we have to start seriously discussing the funding of artists and arts organisations, and how we are going protect it – what’s Continue reading
The Long Note Tour: Tony MacMahon/Angelina Carberry/Allan MacDonald
Names of tunes are repeatedly forgotten by traditional musicians. There are just so many. Yet a small number of titles manage to affix themselves permanently, are always easily recalled, and for no obvious reason. ‘The Long Note’, a three-part single-jig of unknown authorship, which gives this unique Music Network tour its name, is one Continue reading
Music That’s Good Value
What part have the values within Irish traditional music played in its ascent over the past forty years? How much of it has been about the music, and how much has been about the community? As the world turns on its side to get a better look at the way we’ve been living, economically and environmentally at least, it underlines how traditional Continue reading
Toner Quinn 