Tá an Workhouse Lán (MP3)

Nancy Bhán is the long-awaited CD from Connemara country and western singer Beairtle Ó Domhnaill. Beairtle is a native of Foirnis in Leitir Mealláin, Co. Galway and is a very well-known singer in Connemara and in the west of Ireland. He performs regularly with the band Ceann Gólaim and his...

What began with John Beag & Na hAncairí as a mixture of sean-nós style singing, English-language ballad singing and American Country & Western is now a prevailing Connemara style, and in 1994 Pléaráca Chonamara organised a concert celebrating this new genre. It featured John Beag, Tomás...