ComhaltasLive Programme Listing
ComhaltasLive is the daily internet video programme of Irish traditional music produced by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. Each week’s 20-minute programme is divided into daily segments featuring musicians from around the world, young and old. We’ve been taping these players at festivals, concerts, competitions, sessions — anywhere that music is played. If you have suggestions for a programme, please let us know!
Here are a few ways to browse the music:
| By Instrument | By Tune | By Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Fiddle | Reel | Session |
| Flute | Jig | Competition |
| Button Accordion | Hornpipe | Concert |
| Concertina | Slow Air | Fleadh Cheoil |
| Uilleann Pipes | Song | Convention |
| Banjo | Slip Jig | Céilí Band |
| Whistle | Dance | Fleadh Nua |
| Harp | March | Scoil Éigse |
ComhaltasLive programmes are listed below, beginning with the most recent. Each weekly Programme contains several short daily video clips, along with an uninterrupted 20-minute video of the full programme.
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- ComhaltasLive Programme #280
- 20 November 2008
This week we bring you more music from Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008, held in Tullamore, Co. Offaly in August 2008.
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- ComhaltasLive Programme #279
- 13 November 2008
This week we feature Erin Loughran on fiddle, a duet with Darren Breslin (button accordion) and Laura Beagon (fiddle), and from the Senior Fiddle competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008, the fiddle players Maeve Flanagan, Katie Lawrence, Johnny Canning and Aurora Burd.
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- ComhaltasLive Programme #278
- 14 November 2008
This week we present music from the 2008 Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann fiddle competitions, held at Tullamore, Co. Offaly in August. From the Senior Fiddle competition we see the playing of Evelyn Healy, Peader O’Connor, Rónán Mac Grianna, Ciara Brennan, Melanie Houton, Shona Ní Fhlatharta and Seámus Mulready, along with Edel Quinn from the Senior Fiddle Slow Air competition.
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- ComhaltasLive Programme #277
- 27 October 2008
This week brings more music from Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, including impromptu sessions with the Maguire family, Mick O’Connor and Anton Mac Gabhann, along with Bronwyn De Paor, Dylan Foley, Aidan Connolly and Caoimhe Kearns playing in the under-18 fiddle competition.
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- ComhaltasLive Programme #276
- 18 October 2008
This week’s programme features more music from Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, held at Tullamore, Co. Offaly in August 2008. From the Under-18 fiddle competition, we see the fine young players Bronwyn De Paor, Dylan Foley, Eoghan McKenna, Rhona Lynch, Aidan Connolly and Brian Lindsay. From the Senior Céilí Band competition, we have the Dartry and Isle of Man Céilí Bands.
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- ComhaltasLive Programme #275
- 9 October 2008
This week we present more music from Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008, held in Tullamore, Co. Offaly in August 2008. We include selections from the Under-18 All-Ireland fiddle competition, including fiddle players Niall Ó Murchú, Kelsey Lutz, Oisín Conway, Caoimhe Kearns, Síofra Nic Aodha, Brian Lindsay and Eimear Arkins. We also present a clip from the winners of the Senior Céilí Band competition, the Innisfree Céilí Band.
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- ComhaltasLive Programme #274
- 30 September 2008
This week we continue with music from the Senior Céilí Band competition at Fleadh, including the Dartry, Old Bay, Ceoltóirí na Mainstreach, Breffni, Isle of Man, Dromore, Awbeg and Sruleen Céilí Bands. They were all recorded at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann held at Tullamore, Co. Offaly in August of 2008.
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- ComhaltasLive Programme #273
- 22 September 2008
This week we present some of the fine Céilí Bands competing at the 2008 Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Tullamore.