Cathal Caulfield, the traditional fiddle player and singer, grew up around trad music. He talks to Martin Cook about why he has stuck with it into adulthood.
Listen to Cathal Caulfield, the traditional fiddle player and singer, talk about trad music as a living tradition, and the role he plays in furthering that – whether as singer in residence with the Howth Singing Circle, or in his work digging up old comic songs. He sings a song or two, also, in this podcast from his live performance in the second-hand bookshop in the Liberties, Marrowbone Books.
A crowd of about 40 people gathered on Saturday for the unveiling of a plaque honouring Leo Rowsome.
"How do you engage a part of the brain that people fear, in a way that engrosses and rather than repulses?"
“It’s an indulgent thing, a fry-up, rammed into a luxury baguette. It felt like such a symbol of contemporary Ireland, and the perfect identity for the project.”
They're preparing to release their as-yet-untitled sophomore record.
