• Guitar Islancio, is made up of guitarist Björn Thoroddsen, guitarist Gunnar Thordarson and double bass player Jón Rafnsson. They play Icelandic folk music in a light jazz mood.
• Jón Leifs, (1899-1968) is one of the most important and original composer of Icelandic music. He attempted to integrate elements of native folk music into the Western art music tradition in which he was trained. During his life, Leifs recorded Icelandic folk music on 76 wax-cylinders absorbing the characteristics of Icelandic folk music which later inspired his own music.
• Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi / Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland, has recorded a great deal of folkloric material on tape from all parts of the country, as well as from the Icelandic settlements in North America. The material has been catalogued on computer and it is now possible to search the collection and to listen to selected recordings from it.

• Common Ground: Voices of Irish Music, this is the site of the Donal Lunny produced project which featured all new recordings by Liam O Maonlai, Maire Brennan, Davy Spillane, Andy Irvine, Christy Moore, Sharon Shannon, Paul Brady, and others.
  
  
• 5ta Herdeildin, are a snaky four-piece whose membership tends to swell due to the breath of their arrangements. 5ta are all about eclecticism and they aren't afraid of mixing things up for the sake of, well, mixing things up. Electric guitars are pitted against banjos, snare kits meet upright base, and this gives 5ta's music an exotic flavour, based in both traditional Balkan music and American folk.
• Airneán, is a grouping of experienced, professional traditional Irish Musicians.
• Altan, are probably the most talked-about and lauded traditional group to come out of Ireland the last decades. Playing Donegal-based authentic traditional music, they have achieved great popularity without diluting or jazzing up the music. They play authentic traditional music of Donegal and the north of Ireland, tinged with the drive of Scottish traditional music.
• Anam, energetic new Irish traditional/Celtic trio, which fresh interpretation of traditional and contemporary music takes the form one step forward again.
• Anúna, is one of the most acclaimed and successful choral ensembles in the world today.
• Davey Arthur, became one of Ireland's most successful artists when he joined the Furey Brothers who, along with the Chieftains and the Dubliners, were one of the biggest folk acts ever to come out of Ireland.
• At First Light, comprises the talents of world renowned Uilleann Piper John McSherry and outstanding young fiddle player Dónal O'Connor, combined with the sublime talent of Francis McIlduff, the power, clarity and sheer joy of Alan Burke and 'Asturien Traditional Musician of the Year 2006' Rubén Bada. "A true dream team line up"!
• At The Racket, experience the joy, spirit and pure fun that is Irish music at its best.
• Athenrye, is an Irish rebel ballad group, proud to be a part of the tradition of the Irish rebel balladeer. They continue to promote the message of Irish republicanism through their music:
  • Official Site.
  • Unofficial Site.
• The Beer Mats, traditional Irish ballad group from Ballyfermot, Dublin, the home of the Fureys, since 1994.
• Begley & Cooney, furious traditional dance music from a dynamic Australian / Kerry duo.
• Belturbet Youth Marching Band, from Belturbet, plays a selection of traditional Irish music
• Bevel Jenny, their music is a fusion of traditional, jazz/blues, rock and contemporary bilingual sounds. The final product contains newly-composed contemporary songs and lively sophisticated arrangements of well-known traditional airs and songs.
• Frances Black's professional singing debut was in 1986, when she began performing with her brothers and sister as The Black Family, performing a mix of traditional and contemporary/traditional Irish music.
• Mary Black, "is a breathtakingly passionate and intense vocalist, with a singularly powerful rock singing style which encompasses elements of blues, jazz, country, soul and folk, within a framework rooted deep in the lyrical tradition of Ireland.":
  • The Official Mary Black Homepage
  • Carolyn's Mary Black Page
• The Black Brothers, Shay, Michael and Martin Black are members of Ireland's foremost family of song The Black Family. The brothers are regarded amongst the finest and most popular singers in Ireland. They are noted for their strong voices: Shay's is robust and hearty, Michael's a thrilling tenor, and Martin is known for his deep-chested counter harmonies.
• Blood or Whiskey, meet the band who have been described as a powerful original cross between The Pogues and The Clash. BoW play a style of music renowned for its manic energy and passion.
• Luka Bloom, Irish folk singer.
• Bog the Donkey, is a melting pot of the following: Take the traditional finesse of Stocktons Wing, the raw guts of The Pogues, the rock and rool attitude of Rolling Stones and throw in four or five shovels of exuberance and comedy for good measure.
• Bothy Band, were possibly the greatest of new Irish traditional groups that arose in the seventies.
• Boys of the Lough, are one of the past masters of Celtic music, combining members from several Celtic traditions with a long history. Like other long-running acts, their music tends to the formal, impeccable technique and sensitivity.
  • Boys of the Lough Official Site
  • Boys of the Lough at Ceolas
• Paul Brady, from the sixties in Dublin in the resurgence of interest in Irish traditional music and songs who gave rise to the formation of the first wave of Irish ballad groups.
• Paul Bradley, is a violin maker and repairer born in Co. Armagh, but working full time in Galway. As a player, he recorded a solo album and currently plays with the well-known group Dorsa, featuring music from the North of Ireland and from some of the rarer collections of Irish Music.
• Cormac Breatnach, Irish whistle player.
• Máire Breatnach, is a vibrant young fiddle and viola player who has established herself as one of Ireland's most innovative young composers.
• Yvonne Breathnach, originally sang with Barrowside. Her album is a collection of folk and contemporary originals and covers. Her angel sounding voice gives a unique quality to these songs.
• Brídín Brennan, is the youngest member of Ireland's renowned musical family that has given us Clannad and Enya. Although the haunting ethereal voice is unmistakable in it's lineage, her music is somewhat different from the traditional or classical style of her siblings. She has infused some of her own tastes and experiences into a style probably best termed "chilled adult pop".
• Moya Brennan, "timeless, elemental and carried heavenwards in soulful breath, Moya's voice reaches out to the farthest places but still touches the soul. She sings with an angel's voice, arousing a passion in every listener. Her music refreshes and heals, exciting the senses, bringing a sense of calm to tired hearts":
  • Official Site
  • The Unofficial Moya Brennan website
• Eugene Brosnan, is a modern day troubadour playing Irish acoustic folk.
• Ronan Browne, is a composer, Uilleann piper, flute and whistle player. Although Ronan is best known as a traditional musician, being his piping extremely skillful and inventive, he is also keenly interested in exploring other musical genres. At present Ronan is a member of the group Cran, but he plays with various bands around Europe, as a session musician. He has also worked on several film scores and theatre pieces.
• Bumblebees, is a traditional Irish band, who also play Scottish, Cape Breton, French-Canadian and Danish tunes.
• Buille, combines the unique talents of Niall Vallely on concertina, Paul Meehan on guitar and Caoimhín Vallely on piano. While based in traditional Irish forms, the music draws on a wide range of influences from the worlds of jazz and classical music in particular.
• Joe Burke, is among the greatest exponents of Traditional Irish Music. His sheer musical brilliance, his knowledge and love of his land, its music, and culture has earned him an immortal place in the history of Irish Music and Folklore. His technical virtuosity is unique, but that is just part of his great artistry. Joe traces the sources and melodic forms of Irish Music back to the rhythms and cadences of Irish speech and language, and feels that they have an intimate relationship with each other.
• Kevin Burke, is one of those names that just pops up everywhere, and with a lot of respect attached to it at that. From the seventies, with the legendary Bothy Band to the present, with his own Open House, has has always been one of the top musicians on the Celtic scene:
  • Kevin Burke Official Site.
  • Kevin Burke at Ceolas.
  • Kevin Burke's Open House at Green Linnet.
• Bushplant, Irish trad rock band based in Clare, featuring renowned fiddler Mary Custy.
• Caladh, is a mixture of 4 musical personalities who have come together to form an original blend of traditional Irish music not seen before on the Irish gig circuit.
• The Canniffe Family, from Cork, have been playing together in public for nearly ten years. What started as a singing session to amuse each other on long car journeys, grew to the point where they were the center of entertainment for family functions and friends gatherings. They play a variety of traditional music, folk and ballads, and often specialise on themes. Scottish music features a lot in their programme as the family lived in Scotland for a time.
• Turlough Carolan, (1670-1738) became Ireland's most famous harper. In his music one hears a variety of styles - from early modal Celtic melodies, to Airs, to early modern dance music to neo-classical Italian-influenced Baroque melody.
• Karan Casey, is one of Ireland's most original, distinctive and thought-provoking vocalists. She sings traditional and contemporary songs by writers such as John Spillane, Louis de Paor and Andy M.Stewart.
• Patrick Cassidy, is widely recognized as Ireland's most important classical composer. His compositions reflect a deep-felt understanding of Ancient Irish music together with the formal classical European forms; on his first album, he arranged the music of Ireland's 17th & 18th Century Harpers for a Baroque Ensemble with Cassidy himself as a soloist on Irish harp.
• Céide, they played music that reflected their individual style and influences. The sound they have created may set a new direction for Irish traditional music.
• Celtic Fiddle Festival, is a group rather than an event, a combination of one of the best fiddlers from each of three Celtic countries - Johnny Cunningham of Scotland, Kevin Burke of Ireland and Christian Lemaitre from Brittany. Celtic Fiddle Festival II is a completely new group, consisting of Martin Hayes (Ireland), Natalie McMaster (Cape Breton, Canada) and Brian McNeill (Scotland), with guitarists Dennis Cahill and Tony McManus.
• The Chieftains, the most famous exponents of traditional Irish music in the world. Since 1963 at the top...
  • Official Chieftains
  • Jeremy Skinner's Chieftains Pages,
  • The Chieftains Discography at Ceolas,
• Cian, is a four piece Irish traditional group, comprising of flute, concertina, guitar and bodhran.
• Liam Clancy, concertina and guitar player, he is the youngest of the Clancy Brothers.
• Clannad, with haunting songs, mesmerizing vocals, and a captivating sound that blends elements of traditional Irish and contemporary music, they continues to occupy a unique place in the modern musical world:
  • Official Clannad Website
  • Clannad Newsblog
  • MDM, Ireland (Clannad Managment) Web Page
• Cóisir, dynamic group consisting of brother and sister Jim and Damaris Woods and Gerry Tully. They play a collection of Irish, Scottish and Cape Breton tunes and newly composed tunes and songs.
• Rita Connolly, Irish singer best known for her work on Granuaile, and other Shaun Davey pieces.
• Zoë Conway, is one of Ireland's most gifted young violin player. Alongside her "classical" life , she was also deeply involved in the Irish Traditional music scene, partecipating at the traditional All Ireland competitions. Having successfully overcome the barriers separating the classical and traditional worlds, Zoë sought to diversify even further, and thus to develop the outstanding feature of her playing - her ability to straddle different disciplines.
• Michael Cooney, is an Irish traditional fiddle player.
• Éamonn Coyne, is a tenor banjo player who plays traditional music of various countries such as Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Cape Breton, and America among others. In the music scene he has performed and recorded with a vast array of people including Siobhán and Tommy Peoples, The Wrigley Sisters, Eileen Ivers, Sharon Shannon, Jonny Hardie and Gavin Marwick, Russell's House, and most recently Scottish international band Salsa Celtica.
• Cran, are a unique group in the Irish folk-music world with their own highly-individualistic approach and a bewildering array of styles and repertoire. The core of their repertoire is their native Irish material, but they include material from the related Scots-Gaelic tradition and from the other Atlantic Celts, the Bretons. Their Hiberno-English song repertoire (songs from Ireland in English) covers the entire gamut from the old story-telling "long ballads" to lively comic songs of "pure divilment and rascality".
• Kevin Crehan, plays traditional Irish fiddle music -in particular, the music of West Clare.
• Jimmy Crowley, is an Irish traditional folk singer and musician from Cork. He is a fine self-accompanist on bouzouki and mandola. A former member of the band Stokers Lodge, he has formed magical musical associations with many of Ireland's folk greats such as Micheal O'Domhnaill of the Bothy Band, Joe Burke, Jackie Daly, Donal Lunny and Mick Moloney.
• Cruachan, combine modern rock/metal with traditional Irish music, but there is a lot more to them than just that: elaborate classical pieces, ancient medieval tunes, etc. They also use real instruments rather than relying solely on a keyboard or sampler.
• Luke Daniels, young composer and virtuoso of the Irish button accordeon. He plays everything from Irish reels to Brazilian waltzes, Paganini and Bach...
• Danú, is an Irish traditional music group with a strong ethos of loyalty to that tradition from which their music comes.
• Shaun Davey, is one of Ireland's leading professional composers. His approach to music is melodic, and in many cases features traditional [folk] instruments and performers.
• De Dannan, one of the top Irish traditional groups, since the 1970s.
• De Jimbe, are a 7 piece group playing traditional rhythms from the Caribbean and West Africa (using djembes, congas, djoun djouns, talking drum, drum set, etc.) and mixing these rhythms with original and traditional Irish melodies and traditional Irish instruments. The fusion and tension between the pulsating, hypnotic rhythms and the intricate airs is what gives De jimbe their original, immediate and exciting sound.
• Tim Dennehy was born in Ballinskelligs and later' the family moved to nearby Cahersiveen and then to Co. Clare. Both his parents sang and were inheritors of a huge store of songs and stories in the Irish language. These days, Tim can be found teaching his class of twelve year olds in Ennis C.B.S. and is also part of a team of traditional and folk music presenters on Clare FM Radio. He continues to write poems and songs and is a regular contributor to various workshops and singing weekends throughout the country and abroad.
• Dervish, is a traditional Irish musical group from Sligo comprised of six passionant and gifted musicians leading traditional Irish folk music to new heights.
• Different Drums of Ireland, play a range of unique music which draws from the Irish, Scots-Irish, African and African traditions. You'll hear traditional reels, jigs and marches, world rhythms, songs with a reggae feel, traditional Lambeg chants and Bodhrans playing with Long drums, Lambegs and African Djembe.
• Liz Doherty, traditional Irish fiddle player and renowned teacher, imparts what is best about Irish music - sheer fun and joy! She brings to her playing an exuberant energy that is rhythmical and powerful.
• Maeve Donnelly, comes from the village of Kylemore, Abbey near Loughrea in East Galway, an area steeped in traditional music. Passionate, virtuosic, memorable: this is the fiddle music of Maeve Donnelly.
• John Doyle, is Irish guitar player known primarily as an incredibly powerful rhythm player. Compiler and arranger of traditional songs and tunes, composer, solo and harmony singer, producer, and finger-style player, John has made a name for himself as one of the finest examples of tradition and innovation combined in Irish music today.
• Draíocht, is a traditional Irish music group composed by June McCormack (flute) and Michael Rooney (Irish harp, concertina).
• Dreamcraft, County Cork based duo of Australian/Dutch origin, playing a blend of original material and trad/folk, a merging of contemporary songs and airs, jigs, reels and polkas.
• Dublin City Ramblers, are now part of Irish musical history, and wherever they go on their continuous world travels, they draw in people from all walks of life with one binding ingredient, a love of Irish music as played and sung by Dublin's favourite sons.
• The Dubliners, OK, so they're all getting on a bit now, but who isn't after 34 years? :
  • The Balladeers: The First American Dubliners Webpages
  • The Dubliners: A Celebration of the Legendary Irish Band
  • Peter Heinz' Dubliners page
• Eoin Duignan, is a talented Irish composer and skilled performer on the Uilleann pipes and low whistle. He grew up in a household deeply influenced by Irish traditional music and song and it was in this environment that he first began playing music.
• Ennis Céilí Band, are the latest band to take up the mantle of playing dance music, but in a way that pleases the listener as well as the dancer. Following on from the great tradition established by the Kilfenora and Tulla Ceili Bands over the past century, the Ennis Céilí Band has delighted audiences around Ireland with the swing and rhythm that it puts in its music
• Fínín, Rebel band.
• Finn MacCool, combine the magic of ancient times with the excitement of driving rock, creatively blending instruments and styles from both spheres.
• Tommy Fleming, an affable 30 year old Sligo native, he possess not only of a unique voice, but also gifted with the rare ability to select songs which demonstrate the strength of the Irish tradition.
• Finbar Furey, has left his mark on the music of Ireland for more than four decades. As a lead singer and uilleann piper for The Fureys, a group he shared with his brothers Eddie, Paul and George, he helped to guide the evolution of Ireland's traditional music.
• Patsy Furlong, ever since she received her first bright red Paolo Soprani, Patty Furlong has been lighting up the traditional music scene with her driving, full-bodied button-accordion. She is a winner of three All-Ireland titles and founding member of the world famous Cherish the Ladies. In both her solo performances and as a member of the new band, Coolmagort, she demonstrates brilliant improvisation with sound traditional roots.
• Gael Sli, are one of the hottest upcoming Irish music bands on the circuit. The sweet tones of lead singer Siobhàn Warfield blend seamlessly with the energy that Robin Hurt, Adrian Hart, and Dave Keegan create when they play together. Folk, traditional and original music merge to form a sound that is energetic, organic and vibrant.
• Frankie Gavin, founded De Dannan in 1973, at the age of seventeen. He has recorded fifteen albums with De Dannan, six solo albums and he has composed music for television and official events.
• Goats Don't Shave, deliver what has to be one of the finest and exciting sounds in Celtic Rock.
• Gráda, are based in Dublin, where they began playing together in 2001. The group draws from a wide range of influences, which has seen them working with Dave Hingerty (ex Frames drummer, now working a lot with Josh Ritter), Vyviene Long (cellist with Damien Rice), and, as a producer, Trevor Hutchinson (Lúnasa, Sharon Shannon, The Waterboys).
• The Grail, Micky Martin and Gerry O'Neill have travelled the world to entertain others, in addition to recording music for film and television. They play a great mixture of traditional songs, original sets of jigs and reels, alongside contemporary hits. Roaring pub crowds and thunderous festival audiences have been captivated by the thrilling energy of The Grail. Up to the minute favourites and classic Irish songs are blended effortlessly with The Grail's original jigs and reels, to please the most demanding audiences.
• Douglas Gunn, musician, composer, arranger, director.
• Kieran Halpin, from Drogheda, Co. Louth, he plays delightful blend of traditional and original material written with both power and restraint and admirably performed.
• Gráinne Hambly, comes from Co. Mayo in the west of Ireland. She began to play traditional Irish music on tin whistle at an early age, before turning to the concertina and later the harp. Over the past few years, Gráinne has toured extensively throughout Europe and the United States. She is also a qualified teacher of traditional Irish music and is in great demand at summer schools and festivals both in Ireland and abroad.
• Janet Harbison, is acknowledged as one of Ireland's most prominent traditional harpers and pioneering personalities in the Irish harp music scene. She is an authoritative resource on the history and music of the Irish harp and ethnic music.
• Phil Hardy, makes and plays Kerry low whistles. His music is more Afro-Celt than Ancient Kerry, with drum machines and synthesisers galore. There's not an unadulterated traditional tune to be found in 45 minutes, but Phil's compositions have borrowed heavily from Irish, English, Balkan and other traditions.
• Martin Hayes, Clare fiddle player, winning a half-dozen all-Ireland fiddle championships, now lives in the States.
• Hugh & Colm Healy, were born (and live to date) in the village of Corofin in Co. Clare. Their concertina/accordion combination is relatively untried in traditional Irish music. Their music celebrates the Clare tradition of reels, jigs and hornpipes as well as briefly sampling the foreign influence.
• Noel Hill, is one of those standard-setting voices in Irish music today. Few musicians in any field or in any generation achieve a position where both audiences and experts agree on their preeminence and mastery of an instrument; Noel Hill's virtuosity has firmly established him as the defining Irish concertina player of our time.
• The Horslips, legendary Irish traditional/rock band they were pioneers in mixing rock with folk.
• Irish Dance Works, has been established by Michael Patrick Gallagher as a teaching aid for teachers and dancers alike. As a TCRG holder, former World champion and lead of Riverdance, Michael Pat has a wealth of knowledge and expertise to pass on to younger dancers.
• Irish Pipe Band Association, is the governing body for associated pipe bands within the Republic of Ireland.
• The Irish Weavers, a comedy folk group from Cork, characterised by fast music, unique stage settings for humorous songs and a variety of instruments being played.
• Andy Irvine, has been at the core of many of the great Irish traditional groups, from the groundbreaking Sweeney's Men to the classic Planxty and more recently in Patrick Street:
  • Andy Irvine's Official Page
  • Andy Irvine's Page
  • Andy Irvine Page at Ceolas
• Fiona Joyce, is an Irish singer/songwriter whose name and music are often combined with artists such as Maura O'Connell and Loreena McKennitt. An impressive mix of folk rock with definite Celtic influences.
• The Kane Sisters, Yvonne and Liz consider their fiddling style to be heavily influenced by South Sligo fiddle playing, the music of East Galway and in particular the style and compositions of Paddy Fahey. In recent years, the sisters have been privileged to meet and play with Paddy whose music plays a central role in their repertoire. The recordings of Michael Coleman, Hughie Gillespie, Andy McGann and Kathleen Collins have also made an impact on their music.
• James Keane, box player extrordinaire and a man with a joyous devotion to his music which is tremendously uplifting, self-renewing and triumphantly alive with emotion.
• Sean Keane, traditional songs sung in a traditional style marked his earliest performances. His solo albums have not been exclusive in genre though the style of singing they contain is unique to Sean Keane and always incorporate sean nos undertones. While primarily a folk singer, he successfully mixes country, blues and pop songs.
• Niall Keegan, is a virtuoso and innovative flute player and a dazzling performer, mixing jazz, contemporary and traditional styles to thrilling effect to produce new arrangements of traditional tunes from Ireland, England and France as well as some original compositons.
• Paddy Keenan, the Uilleann piper once described as "the Jimi Hendrix of the pipes".
• Alan Kelly, "will do for the piano accordion what Sharon Shannon did for the button box".
• Eílís Kennedy, has always had an interest in singing and in music and has been performing her wide repertoire of Irish and English songs in public at concerts and other occasions but mainly in singing sessions, which, in West Kerry, are plentiful.
• Kíla, young Irish band with many influences.
• Pat Kilbride, guitar player and singer, Pat Kilbride comes from Co. Kildare in Ireland. He was one of the early members of Battlefield Band and is now one of the latest. Over the years in between, Pat has travelled and played all over the world with many fantastic musicians, and has rightfully earned his reputation as "the most progressive, dynamic guitarist currently performing in Irish music".
• Kilfenora Ceili Band, 96 years in the business, the Kilfenora will soon be celebrating their centenary! From village parties in the early 1900s right down to their current international profile in the new millennium, each new generation slots seamlessly into the groove of their forebears. The group can follow its roots back into the late 1800s. At the time, Music was an important feature of life in rural Ireland. Kilfenora boasted a fine brass band, which gradually evolved into a dance band. Its story is the story of Irish music itself.
• Lia Luachra, are an exciting young band who first formed in 1997-2021, attending the Interceltic Festival in Lorient.
• Líadan, weave traditional Irish music and song to form a unique blend of old and new. The distinctive sound of this all-female band lies in the deeply traditional essence of their music and in each band member's ability to shine both instrumentally and vocally.
• Denis Liddy and Michael Hynes, Denis Liddy (fiddle) and Michael Hynes (flute, whistles) play the traditional Irish music from Co. Clare.
• Lúnasa, called an "Irish music dream team", this new all-star quintet has driven Irish acoustic music into surprising new territory.
• Dónal Lunny, a major force in Irish music, from his days with Planxty to his recent work as producer:
  • Dónal Lunny Page at Ceolas
• Pol Mac Adaim, is a political Belfast-born folk singer. Through the years he has learnt to play in a wide range of styles including Folk, Appalachian, Cajun, Rock, Soul and Contemporary. on a variety of instruments. Pol tours throughout Europe playing mainly traditional Irish music and has also toured in America.
• Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, Bi-lingual site for this Irish singer and songwriter.
• Geraldine MacGowan, in 1988 after 10 years touring Europe with Oisin, Shay and Geraldine MacGowan settled in Hannover and opened one of Germany's first Irish pub. She tours extensively in Europe and their home page contains tour dates.
• Tony MacMahon, music of spell-binding intensity from one of the icons of traditional Irish music.
• Tommy Makem, has been expanding and reshaping the boundaries and depths of Irish culture. He has been moving Irish people and Irish Americans into a new vision of themselves as a vibrant creative people who do things instead of having things done to them.
• The Makem Brothers, set their words to the sounds of the bazouki and concertina; the bodrhan and mandolin, to create a synthesis of traditional Irish music and song.
• Darren Maloney, Cavan man, banjo maestro, occasional mandolin and bouzouki player and sometime-member of Steelhead McGinnity, Cúlfuar, Ephemera, The Butterfly Band and The Tim O'Connor Band.
• Josephine Marsh, is a well known traditional Irish music player (accordionists) from East Co. Clare.
• Anne Martin, haunting Gaelic voice, Anne Martin is fast becoming one of Scotland's most highly acclaimed Gaelic singers.
• Emer Mayock, although Emer plays whistles, uilleann pipes, fiddle and cello, the flute has become her main instrument. Emer has performed and written music for herself and a number of theatre shows and she has been playing uilleann pipes and flute with the highly successful band Afro Celt Sound System since 1999.
• Jim McCann, veteran folk-singer and ex-member of The Dubliners.
• Mc Mahon & Quigney, Anthony Quigney who plays flute is a native of Clooney in East Clare. Aidan McMahon on fiddle comes from the North Clare village of Kilfenora. Coming from opposite ends of Clare, they have been exposed to the wide and varied styles present in their home county. They have also looked outside the bounds of their native Clare for tunes, influences and inspiration for their recordings.
• Méav, has a broad range of performing experience in Ireland and abroad. Méav inherited her love of classical and traditional music from her family in Dublin. She began her studies of voice, harp and piano at an early age and continued them while completing a law degree at Trinity College Dublin.
• The Merry Ploughboys, is a Dublin based ballad band.
• Matt Molloy, is considered by many to be the finest and most musical Irish flute player living today. He has a rich flowing style that draws on uileann piping techniques as well as traditional flute styles. Matt Molloy plays/played flute in Bothy Band, Chieftains and Planxty, as well as soloist.
• Mick Moloney, instrumentalist, singer, producer, scholar, album note writer and tireless promoter of Irish Traditional Music.
  • Mick Moloney's Homepage
  • Mick Moloney's Page at Ceolas.
• Christy Moore, another formerly with 'Moving Hearts' and 'Planxty'
  • The Christy Moore Website,
  • Unofficial Christy Moore Webpage at Ceolas
• Van Morrison, singer and bandleader in any number of musical idioms, from traditional Irish, country and gospel, to jazz, blues and r&b.
• Neil Mulligan, born in Dublin into a family steeped in the Irish music of Co. Leitrim, Neil (aka Néillidh) Mulligan is one of Ireland's most distinguished uilleann pipers. Néillidh has won All-Ireland titles at various age levels, has toured extensively around the world and has represented Ireland at various bagpipe festivals throughout Europe.
• David Munnelly, this button accordion wizard brings new excitement and depth to traditional music while drawing on past masters including the Roaring 20's Flanagan Brothers for inspiration. With their unique "wild-West-Mayo-style-of-playing", David Munnelly & his band are making waves on both sides of the Atlantic.
• Neff Brothers, from their vantage point outside Cork city Flaithrí and Eoghan look out past Blarney to the rich musical heritage of the Muskerry Gaeltacht and a little further to Sliabh Luachra. They have been critically acclaimed for their virtuosity and depth of tradition, for their creative arrangements and enthusiasm for their tradition - this is the living pulse of Irish traditional music.
• The Nenagh Singers Circle's aims are to promote singing of all types even though the majority of the songs sung are traditional songs.
• Máiréad Nesbitt, member of a well-known musical family, comes from Loughmore, Co. Tipperary. Máiréad played on the original sound track of Riverdance and she was engaged for the Lord of the Dance Troupe as a lead fiddle player. Then at the end of the year 2001, she terminated her engagement with the large dance shows to concentrate on her own career.
• Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman, "Music of fire and brilliance from the high-wire act in traditional music"
• Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola, although her singing style is deeply rooted in the sean-nós singing tradition in her home on the Aran Islands, a broad range of contemporary music has influenced her: traditional melodies and new compositions.
• Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, first rose to international fame as a founding member of the praised Bothy Band, back in the seventies. Since then she has recorded many many beautiful and haunting tunes, working with many accomplished musicians, but always of the same high musical quality.
• Aoife Ní Fhearraigh, singer from Gweedore, in North West Donegal.
• Brid Ní Mhaoileoin, plays bodhrán and sings mostly in Irish, in both Sean-Nós (unaccompanied traditional singing in the Irish language) and contemporary style, and also in English. One day she would like to add 'bouzouki' to that. She's working on it...
• Martin Nolan, is a Dublin-born, highly respected and accomplished musician and composer who has been playing uilleann pipes for almost thirty years. His piping is strongly influenced by the "travelling style" of piping, which employs legato and staccato techniques, elements which are heard to great effect in his playing.
• Nomos, traditional music from Scotland, Cape Breton and Quebec as well as Ireland.
• North Cregg, formed in Cork, they have, in their short history, established themselves as one of the premier bands playing traditional Irish music today. Voted "Best Traditional Newcomers" in the Irish Music Magazine Millennium Poll, their enviable reputation for exhilarating live performances continues to enthral audiences at home and abroad.
• Nuada, are an exciting new Irish traditional music group.
• Gerry O'Beirne, has written some of the best new tunes to come out of Ireland's Celtic music scene. O'Beirne's guitar playing is always a thing of wonder and his lyrics have become increasingly poetic and emotionally deep.
• Niall Ó Callanáin, Irish Bouzouki player and peermusic composer.
• Peadar Ó Ceannabháin, Sean-nós (unaccompanied traditional singing in the Irish language) singer from Connemara.
• Robbie O'Connell, Irish born folksinger/songwriter now based in US, a nephew of the Clancy Brothers.
• Gerry O'Connor, breathes new life and intensity into many long forgotten tunes from his home area in the North East of Ireland. His unique personal style and splendidly fluid bow-hand combined with technical virtuosity have brought him to concert stages throughout the world and have earned him international renown.
• Alison O'Donnell, throughout her schooldays and across several continents, Dublin-born Alison O'Donnell has been singing and playing music since the age of eleven. She has covered the full spectrum of styles and genres from rock and jazz to folk and traditional.
• Liam O'Flynn, behind the innovation and experimentation he has always managed to remain true to the great piping tradition. He has taken his instrument into previously unexplored territory - be it as a member of Planxty, as a soloist with an orchestra or working with artists as diverse as John Cage, The Everly Brothers, Van Morrison and Kate Bush.
• Méabh O'Hare and Conor Byrne, between them this pair have a pedigree as long as your arm, and grew up playing their respective instruments from an early age. Méabh and Conor mix traditional tunes from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany and America with tunes penned by themselves and their contemporaries, creating a richly varied musical mix.
• Brian Ó hEadhra, is from Dublin, and is now resident in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland. He sings traditional and newly composed Irish and Scottish Gaelic songs as well as being a prolific singer and songwriter in English.
• Tim O'Shea, he has been working solo, and in several bands since the late 1980's. Tim's repertoire draws from the dance music of his native Sliabh Luachra and West Kerry folk traditions and the singing of Irish and Scottish performers like Jimmy McCarthy, Paul Brady, Dick Gaughan and Andy M. Stewart.
• Osna, the musical pulse of Mayo.
• The Outside Track, formed in October 2005 at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, where all of its members are currently studying. With a truly diverse line-up, boasting members from Ireland, Scotland, England and Canada, they combine music form their own traditions with other instrumental accents to form a distinct and dynamic sound.
• The Paddies, are a five piece band that mix Irish Traditional music with Rock.
• Niamh Parsons, is one of the freshest and most powerful voices out of Ireland today.
• Tommy Peoples, is one of the most reknowned fiddlers in Irish traditional circles today, and a prime exponent of the Donegal style of fiddling, a technical master as well as powerful musician. He played with Matt Molloy, Paddy Keenan, Liam O'Flynn, Bothy Band ...
• Pipeline, is an exciting new duo with Dermot Hyde on uilleann pipes, whistles, vocals, small pipes, and Tom Hake playing bouzouki, guitar and harp. The two musicians offer a repertoire which comprises both traditional and brand new music from Ireland, Scotland, Galicia, and Brittany, not forgetting the tunes and songs of the typical "emigration-lands", America, Canada and Australia.
• Planxty, is one of the greatest of Irish folk/traditional groups in the pivotal decade of the seventies.
• The Pogues + Shane MacGowan, the late, the great, the London/Irish band that brought punk and Irish music together in an inexplicable but tremendously successful sound:
  • www.Pogues.com, a collection of sites.
  • Shane MacGowan, Paddy Rolling Stone, the official web page for The Friends of Shane International Fan Club. Contains news, discographies, sound files, articles and some cool pictures.
  • Shane MacGowan Official Web page.
• Providence, are a Dublin based traditional band whose repertoire includes their own unique blend of tunes and songs.
• Michael Queally and Cyril O'Donoghue, traditional music from the heart of Co. Clare.
• Martin Quinn and Angelina Carberry, Irish traditional duo on button accordion and banjo.
• Réalta, carry on a tradition of keeping songs and tunes alive, whether they are the hard shoed rhythm of a lively gig or the living embrace of a slow air. Realta's live performances are filled with passion, technique and style, a warm, inviting delivery filled with exciting musical energy.
• Reeltime, although Celtic in Spirit, the Galway-based quartet practices pop music: songs of the common culture and the Irish folk tradition, burnished with playfulness and invention.
• Reynardine, from the Boyne Valley around Drogheda, this innovative folk quartet made their first sounds around a bonfire on the last day of 1999. The group began work on a broad range of music and song from the Irish, Scottish, English and American folk traditions, re-working the intricate musical accompaniments and revelling in the raw, frequently bawdy content of the lyrics: tales of lust, betrayal, passion, and murder.
• Rig The Jig, are six musicians who met through mutual friends and their love of music. Over the last four years, Rig the Jig have evolved into one of the leading lights in Irish traditional / folk music. When Rig the Jig let fly, a spirit of connection exists between Irish traditional music and contemporary American material, which is both fresh and invigorating as well as sounding completely natural and unforced.
• Róisín Dubh, play a mixture of Irish traditional music, contemporary songs and original material.
• Rowsome Family, a celebration of uilleann piping / pipemaking in the Rowsome family since 1820.
• Claire Roche, singer/harpist from Dublin.
• Gary Roche, brilliant uilleann piper from Cork.
• Rua, features the musical talents of Liz Madden and Gloria Mulhall. Described as "a sort of Enya meets Puccini", they are adding a new dimension to the music of Ireland with their unique Rua sound. Rua compose and perform their own original music as well as arrange pieces from the traditional Irish music repertoire.
• The Saw Doctors, Irish folky group with a touch of traditional.
• Pauline Scanlon, though only 25 years old, this vocalist and songwriter galvanized the Irish music scene with her music. Deeply immersed in the tradition yet completely aware of the edgier developments in contemporary alternative music, Scanlon is capable of making the oldest ballads sound immediate and fresh while granting newer material a timeless resonance.
• Sessions from the Hearth, is a ten-strong group of musicians who are part of the vanguard of the Irish music revival. The group represents the very best of the younger generation of talented musicians which Ireland has produced, including: Alan Maguire (bouzouki), Neil Lyons (bodhrán), Enda Scahill (banjo), Malachy Bourke (fiddle) Éamonn De Barra (flute), John O Brien (uileann pipes), Peter Browne (accordion), Deirdre Scanlan (vocals), Elaine Hogan (harp) and Benny O Carroll. The group has taken Irish music to audiences all over the world and is enjoying a quickly growing reputation as the most dynamic ensemble to emerge in the new wave of international recognition of Irish music.
• Sharon Shannon, is a young accordion player from Co. Clare who has had huge success both in her solo career and with A Woman's Heart and the Waterboys:
  • Sharon Shannon Official Site
  • Sharon Shannon Page at Ceolas
• Slide, young, imaginative and energetic, is one of the most promising groups to emerge from the Irish traditional scene in quite some time. This band plays traditional and newly composed tunes in a contemporary innovative way.
• Sliotar's identity is firmly rooted in the triumvirate of whistles, pipes and bouzouki, which drives its pace with dogged tenacity. There's no doubting the trio's technical skill, nor their ability to pen a mean tune or two.
• Ian Smith & Stephen Campbell, Ian Smith is a superbly skilled guitar and mandola player who has lived and played music in north west County Donegal for over 20 years. Stephen Campbell moved from Scotland to Donegal over 15 years ago. He has become a major influence on the music scene in the north west of Ireland. Together, Stephen and Ian create a magical combination of songs and tunes. Over the years they have both peformed with a number of well-known artists and bands.
• Breda and Cora Smyth, sibling sisters, grew up in Straide, Co. Mayo and played music from a very young age. Over the years Cora and Breda have performed together many times and now have finally collaborated to record an exciting album which represents the music they've loved and shared together.
• Davy Spillane, Uileann piper and flutist, he was a founding member of Moving Hearts and is currently a solo artist.
• John Spillane, singer / songwriter native of Cork. Vocally, Spillane is quite unique with an almost sean nos like element and has been described as having a voice 'full of honesty, commitment and sensitivity'.
• Padraig Stevens is a singer songwriter from the west of Ireland. Padraig is already well known in the folk song domain and of course as a past and founding member of the Saw Doctors. He is a modern-day wandering song-writer who makes his music from his every day experiences of life.
• Paddy Sweeney, for many years the lead singer with the Dublin City Ramblers has been performing as a solo artist since 2002 and has established himself as Ireland's Number One all round entertainer.
• Téada, featuring the fiddle playing of Oisín Mac Diarmada, in tandem with the banjo/bouzouki player, Sean McElwain, the uniquely crafted tune settings are beautifully enhanced by two of Ireland's finest accompanists. Tristan Rosenstock on bodhrán, brings to the performance an unmistakable rhythmic vitality, superbly aided by the harmonic understanding and melodic expression of John Blake on guitar/flute.
• Tassida, is a four piece Irish band. Their music may be described as "contemporary Irish traditional" as much of it is newly composed. They are also highly influenced by other ethnic musics.
• Gerry Tully, since 2000, Gerry has steadily gained momentum carving his own niche with his individual song writing style and guitar accompaniment. Moreover, Gerry has played support to a host of well-known artists including Dervish, The Fureys, The Hothouse Flowers, and The Dubliners.
• Unusual Suspects is the brain-child of it's musical directors Corrina Hewat & David Milligan. 22 world-class players... drawn from the cream of Scottish folk groups.
• Seamus Walshe, has recorded music on accordion from his home region, West Clare.
• Derek Warfield, is a historian, singer, songwriter, mandolin player and the leader of the legendary Wolfe Tones.
• Patsy Watchorn, "Ireland's favourite balladeers".
• West o' Clare, a traditional Irish Show Band.
• Bill Whelan, his work with Irish traditional music and musicians has occupied much of his time since 1980 when he was a member of the legendary Planxty. He is well known in Ireland as a composer of music for theatre and television and as a record producer with a number of Irish and International hits to his name.
• Gavin Whelan, is widely regarded as one of the finest exponents of the tin whistle. Gavin was a founder member of the band Dál Riada and in 2002 Gavin released his solo album, on his own label.
• Whole Shabang, formed in 1993 by a group of five musicians based in the Waterford/Carrick-on-Suir part of Ireland, The Whole Shabang soon developed a distinctive sound of their own. With influences ranging from traditional, rock, Cajun, and folk which they played in their formative years.
• The Wolfe Tones, thirty plus years of traditional and contemporary acoustic music. The masters of Irish rebel music.

• Caarjyn Cooidjagh, is an unaccompanied choral group specializing in Manx songs, ballads and amateur dramatics. The groups sings both traditional music and arrangements written by the group members.
• King Chiaullee, is a Manx folk group based in the Isle of Man. Their repertoire includes music from a variety of Celtic countries and through the years has varied in style.
• The Tholtan Builders, is a group devoted to folk and ethnic music of all kinds.
• The Stationary Willberries, Folk, Rock 'n Roll, Country, Blues and Cajun done the Isle of Man way.

Italy

• Associazione fra i Gruppi Folcloristici della Regione Friuli (AGFF), is the site of the Association of the Friuli region folklore groups (in Italian)
• "Ballad and gender: reconsidering narrative singing in Northern Italy", analysis of ballads by Tullia Magrini.
• Balli delle Quattro Province, dances, players and other information on the music in the area defined "delle Quattro province", a culturally homogeneous area divided administratively into four provinces of four different regions in Northern Italy: Alessandria (Piedmont), Genoa (Liguria), Pavia (Lombardy), Piacenza (Emilia-Romagna).
• Dove comincia l'Appennino, (Where the Apennine begins), cultural and naturalistic notes (including music and dances) about the Quattro Province area, a group of mountains and valleys in the northwestern Italy. Despite the fact that is area is divided into four different provinces and regions, it is a homogeneous area on the cultural side. This unity is especially expressed in the traditional folk music. (in Italian)
• The Launeddas Players in Sardinia, here you can find biography and sample of Launeddas music played by famous players.
• Meri's Italian Folksinging Page, a comprehensive site for Italian folk music. Words to over 100 Italian folk songs from all over Italy, many in dialect. Links to over 150 Italian folk music groups and performers, traditional instruments, and more.
• Vucciria.org, is a site dedicated to the music and the artists of Sicily. (in Italian)

• Gruppo Folklorico Marinaro 'A Paranze, is a folk group based in the city of Termoli, on the coastline Adriatic of Molise. Their specific purpose is to maintain alive, with dances and songs, some forms of the mariner culture and civilization, becoming the authentic interpreter of the popular traditions of the people of sea.
• Abesibé, they are Cantastorie (History singers on the streets). Music and theatre together in an original mixture. (in Italian)
• Abies Alba, traditional dances and songs from Trentino. (in Italian)
• Abnoba, their music has all the signs of becoming an important addition to the Italian world music scene. One of the band's intentions is to interweave musical cultures from past and present, to come up with melodies inspired by the Italian and French traditions and fuse them with influences ranging from jazz and Balcan music, to classical harmony and funk. Abnoba's aim is partly "to try to create an Italian avant-folk whose sounds and ideas will attract a wider audience not necessarily au fait with the history of the instruments used." (in Italian)
• Acanto, a Swiss and Italian quartet with multicultural roots. With their diverse instrumentation and their ability to blend the sounds they create many atmospheres in their original compositions.
• Acquaragia Drom, its original project will allow you to discover an amazing Italian/Mediterranean-Gypsy style swirling among Sinti and Manouche swing of the Alpes, the saltarello of the Molise and Abruzzo, the frenetic tarantella from Sicily, the ritual pizzica of Salento. Acquaragia Drom is trying to rebuild the musical journey of the Italian Gypsies of the past, singing melodies that are part of the historical communities living in the country a long time ago, playing, at the same time, rhythms of the new Gypsy caravans nowadays.
• Agricantus, this band from Sicily is certainly one of the most attentive groups on the international world music scene: they mix ethnic music, mainly from the Mediterranean, with classical, ambient and trance rhythms.
• Aioresis, were born in 2000 and propose a personal reproposition of the traditional music of the Salento region. The repertoire is centred on the rhythm of the pizzica, but they also play love songs, protest songs, serenades and lullabies. (in Italian)
• Ajara, ethnic music from the Salento (Puglia) region. (in Italian)
• L'Albero del Canto, is a choir singing the song of the Italian tradition: from love songs to political and social songs, from stornelli to the beautiful songs of the Resistance and the anarchical tradition. (in Italian)
• Gli Alègher de Dosèna, traditional songs and music from the Brember Valley (Val Brembana, Bergamo). (in Italian)
• Alexian, is well-known to international level because it participates to all the more important festivals of ethnic music and of gypsy music contributing to introduce the secular culture of the Rom Abruzzesi and Italian gypsies, arrived in Italy five centuries ago coming from the Greek coasts.
• Alice Castle, Celtic music. (in Italian)
• Alla Bua, play the traditional dances and songs from the Salento region. (in Italian)
• Allegra Brigata Bodhran, Italian group of contemporary folk. (in Italian)
• Aluachi, plays original songs in Italian and Piedmontese language and instrumental pieces too. The sound group's is in balance betwenn electric and acoustic creating a whole direct and involving.
• I Amis de Dosèna, traditional songs and music from the Brember Valley (Val Brembana, Bergamo). (in Italian)
• Alfredo and Letizia Anelli, traditional folksingers playing and singing the rich Sicilian musical heritage. (in Italian)
• Alfio Antico, was born Sicily, where he lived 'til he was 18, working as a shepherd with his faithful companions, drums and tambourines, that he himself built. The will of trying something new and strong, led him to play on the road as to survive, and several musical meetings stroke the beginning of an astonishing artistic career. Today his music is the easy way to understand how it's possible to mix two so differents sounds like Middle Age (medieval music) and traditional Italian ethnic music, and making such a perfect combination with these wonderful melodies singed in Sicilian language. (in Italian)
• Antidotum Tarantulae, the traditional music of the Salento region contaminated by other rhythms (Jamaica, Ireland, Balkans, in particular). (in Italian)
• Raffaele Antoniotti, multi-instrumentalist, together with Meikenut group he got an extensive repertory about the folk dance also introducing many passages owing to Provençal and French popular tradition. He is involved in many other projects: "Cantarkaicos", a theatre performance (songs and music taken from the imaginary world of Canavese), the "Grande Orchestre des Alpes", an orchestra of 50 musicians coming from Alps villages, and a concert as soloist.
• Ár n-Anam, Irish and Scottish traditional music. (in Italian)
• Arakne Mediterranea, the company includes artist and researchers with the purpose of spreading the old traditions and culture of the tarantella, but also to renew and give new life to the old music through modern elaborations of the ancient rhythms. The musical repertoire of the Company is thus rich in traditional components drawn from original sources, interpreted as close as possible to the repertory passed along by oral tradition.
• Aramirè, plays traditional songs and music belonging to the the Salento region. (in Italian)
• Aranira, traditional music from the South of Italy. (in Italian)
• Archedora, is a musical project around two ex-members, Rachele Colombo and Corrado Corradi, of the well-known Venetian folk group Calicanto. Together with a few quest musicians they recorded eleven strong songs with their roots into the Venetian folk music and surrounding. (in Italian)
• Aria di Danze, group of research on world ethnic dances. They play Italians' dances performance, hold stages, animate bal folk with a special section for children only. (in Italian)
• Ariacorte, ethnic music from the Salento (Puglia). Tradition and new sounds. (in Italian)
• AriaFriscA, traditional music from the Salento region. (in Italian)
• Ariondassa, their goal is to re-create, with the help of the treppo (a sort of street performer's stage curtain) the spirit and atmosphere of the old Piedmontese country festival (i.e. songs about love, wine and food!)
• Arlecchino e i Zani di San Giovanni Bianco, from San Giovanni Bianco (where there is Arlecchino's home) plays the Bergamo origin of the famous mask of improvised comedy. Improvisations, mimics, songs, dances and traditional music, with the voice of sìfol (fife) and of baghèt (reed-pipe from the Alps), make an atmosphere in order that public will recognize and clap Arlecchino as the most travelling compassion.
• Armós, traditional music from Sicily.
• Associazione della Furlana, inside this club two musical groups are present: Orchestrina della Cricca and Sotto Pressione, both playing traditional music and dances from the Emilia region. (in Italian)
• Audiofolk, songs and dances from the traditional repertoire, in new and modern arrangements: ballads, love songs, lullabies, tarantelle, etc. (in Italian)
• Auriko, is a new Italian folkmusic-group based in Rome. They play their own brand of ethno-crossover based on the music of South Italy and other European countries.
• Babemalà, play Italian and International folk music (mainly) for bal folk. (in Italian)
• Balbalord, Power-trad dance music from Piedmont. (in Italian)
• Balkan Babau Circus Orkestar, ethnic balkanic-mediterranean sonorities in a continous contamination.
• Ballati tutti quanti, traditional songs and dances from the deep South of Italy (Salento region). (in Italian)
• Ballo e Novello, play Italian and French music for bal folk. (in Italian)
• BandaBrisca, bal folk: a large repertoire of French, Occitan and Italian dances played with energy. (in Italian)
• Banda Connemara, is a very powerful Celtic band. His music is very contaminated with Mediterranean and South Italian roots. (in Italian)
• Bânda de Grèl, from Faenza, plays songs and dances coming from the Emilia Romagna region, as well as from other regions of Italy. (in Italian)
• Bandalpina, was founded by various musicians coming from Lombardia in the North of Italy. The repertory is a synthesis of the principal forms of music of the 19th century and includes dance piece as marches, scottishes, waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and "manfrine". The instruments used are the ones currently played in the musical tradition of Alps. (in Italian)
• Barabàn, propose a musical trip along the Po Valley and, in general, the Northern Italy, far from pure nostalgy, but trying new musical courses. (in Italian)
• Barbapedana, performs instrumental and vocal works from the Balkan regions (including Macedonia, Rumania and Ex Jugoslavia), Gypsy music and the Jewish Klezmer of Eastern Europe. Exciting rhythms and yearning melodies intermingle with one another giving life to a performance that also aims at involving the audience....
• Barbarian Pipe Band, their repertoire branches out from traditional Scottish, German, Occitanian and Piedmont pieces to songs of their own creation, and in certain circles, may also be supported during fire juggling shows and dance. The band plays in medieval costume from the 1300s-1400s, and is an ideal choice for medieval events, banquets, weddings, stag and hen nights, funerals, crowd inciting, and any other manifestations.
• Li Barmenk, traditional music from the Piedmontese Alpine valleys, Ireland, and Southern France. (in Italian)
• Susy Bellucci, is a singer/songwriter that since the '70 writes music with particular attention for the world of the children and popular music from her Tuscany. (in Italian)
• B.E.V BonificaEmilianaVeneta, present the melodies and the dances of Northern Italy (Apennines and Po Valley in particular).
• Bevano Est, thier music is a fine blend of new and old, heritage and modern creation, features taken from the rural tradition mixed with jazz, Yiddish tunes and Mediterranean flavours. Their music involves and attracts the soul.
• I Birkenstock, the Tyrolean folk music, typical of the Dolomites' valleys and South Tyrol region, is their passion.
• Birkin Tree, is one of the best Italian Celtic and Irish music band. A real surprise for those who think the Latin cannot play Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes and Slow Airs.
• Blackstonefolk, traditional Celtic music. (in Italian)
• Bizantina, plays the traditional music of the South of Italy together with songs of Italian songwriters (De Simone, Eugenio Bennato, Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, Fabrizio De Andrè, etc.). (in Italian)
• Borgata Italia, traditional music for bal folk from all over the Italy. (in Italian)
• The Bosio Big Band, is the only existing band of 30 melodeons. The band has as well a rich section of percussions and a vocal quartet, playing traditional music and dances.
• Silvano Brancalion, is an accordion player, actually playing with "Ande Cante Bali" and "Piva Piva Sona", both groups performing traditional music from the Veneto region. (in Italian)
• Brentegana Folk Band, folk music in Tyrolean style: valzer, polka, mazurka, etc. (in Italian)
• Briganti, tarantelle, pizziche, tammurriate, fighting and love songs from the deep South of Italy. (in Italian)
• Calabria Logos, traditional music from the Calabria region. (in Italian)
• Calamus, this association is born in order to promote, to study and to value the zampogna, popular bagpipe still today used in the musical tradition of the Ciociara region. The association has its own musical quintet and folk dance group.
• I Calanti, traditional music from the Salento region. (in Italian)
• Calicanto, since 1981 this group has been involved in the refounding of Venetian traditional music. Today "the sound" takes its life from the fusion of old and new traditions, by continuously searching for a musical style which brings together East European and Mediterranean moods.
• Antonio Calogero, his innovative world music/jazz ensemble features original works performed by some of the most gifted contemporary instrumentalists. Italian guitar master Antonio Calogero teams up with Paul McCandless (multi-instumentalist and composer from the legendary group Oregon), fretless bass extraordinaire Michael Manring, and the eclectic percussionist Brian Rice. This exceptional quartet performs music that embodies the spirit of the Mediterranean, yet transcends all music boundaries.
• Canalensis Brando, is a group composed by a brass band of twelve musicians ("sonador") and sixteen dancers ("balarin") playing and dancing the traditional dances (mainly "brando") of the Southern Piedmont (Roero and Monferrato, in particular). (in Italian)
• Cantodiscanto, starting from the tradition of South Italy, they work on the affinities between Neapolitan music and other Mediterranean and South American . music. (in Italian)
• Cantunovu, traditional songs and music from Sicily. (in Italian)
• Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, is the first folk reasearch group formed in Puglia. It is active since '75 and it has always taken part in every musical experience connected to the popular world. (in Italian)
• Andrea Capezzuoli, is a multi-instrumentalist involved in many musical projects ranging from Italy to Québec, i.e. Din delòn, Sansculottes and many others.
• Sara Cappello, traditional folksinger playing and singing the rich Sicilian musical heritage. (in Italian)
• Carantan, is a group based in the Friuli region, in the North East part of Italy. Their aim is to rediscover / rework Friulan music from the 16th century to modern times, interposed with several original pieces written by band members. The band also play traditional songs, protest songs and songs hailing from the times of mass emigration.
• I Cariddi - Gruppo Siciliano di Canterini e Danzerini, is a Sicilian folk group of singers, ballet dancers, musicians and scholars interested in ancient and modern popular culture and arts. It aims to balance its artistic, performative, and scholarly activities to disseminate knowledge of their heritage all over the world.
• Alberto Cesa e Cantovivo, from the tradition to combat-folk. (in Italian)
• Les Chaussettes du Diable, is a group composed by French and Italian musicians playing the traditional music of Québec. (in Italian and French)
• Cialamastrìa, traditional dance music from the Northern Italy and other European countries. (in Italian)
• Ciarameddi e Ciancianeddi, traditional Sicilian music. (in Italian)
• Nando Citarella, musician and researcher created a band of percusionists (I Tamburi del Vesuvio), singers and dancers from different cultures and roots who give an archaic atmosphere to the Vesuvian magma and its beating drums. The Vesuvio volcano heartbeat pervades the sounds and rythms of popular dances and songs of Campania and Southern Italy, mixed with new interferences. (in Italian)
• City of Rome Pipe Band, All the streets goes to Rome... and now Rome have her Scottish pipe band. A "foreign legion" of the Great Highland Bagpipe with people from USA, New Zealand, Scotland, Brasil and, obviously, Italy.
• Claymore Pipes and Drums, based in Milan, is the only Scottish pipe band in the North of Italy. (in Italian)
• Comballo, is a traditional music group playing mainly music from the Quattro Province region, the Occitan countries, the Apennines around Bologna and the Alps around Bergamo. (in Italian)
• Compagnia della Casaccia, traditional music of the Liguria region. (in Italian)
• La Compagnia d'Encelado Superbo, World-ethnic music from Sicily. (in Italian)
• Compagnia Ditirammu, traditional music and songs from Sicily.
• Compagnia La Giostra, is made up of artists coming from different experiences and it progressively affirmed itself first on a National and International scene involving the groups that are concerned with search, renewal and spreading of the ancient and popular music, Sicilian and Mediterranean one. The musical instrumental and vocal search of the group is, and pretends to be, a free interpretation of the medieval culture, of the repertoire and instruments in use at that time.
• Compagnia Strumentale Tre Violini, was born in 1987 by Bernardo Falconi, Giuliano Grasso e Giulio Venier, three fiddlers coming from different cities but sharing the same love for the Italian mountain fiddling. The three fiddlers, accompanied by a guitar and a three-stringed small bass, reproposed the traditional line-up of Northern Italian mountains:
  • Compagnia Strumentale Tre Violini #1
  • Compagnia Strumentale Tre Violini #2, traditional music for violins from Northern Italy. (in Italian)
• Peppe Consolmagno, mainly plays instruments belonging to extra-european cultures, built on his own, together with his voice, creating a unique dimension where natural sound, silence, timbre and rhythm predominate.
• Cormac, Irish traditional folk music.
• Le Cornamuse della Franciacorta, traditional bagpipe music, from the Emilia to the France, with some sample from Scotland. (in Italian)
• Coro delle Mondine di Novi di Modena, (the Novi Rice Weeders Choir) a living legend in their native Italy, the choir consists of 20 women who earned a living weeding rice in the fields, and resisted the Nazi occupation during World War II. They sang while they worked, to beat fatigue and the burning heat. From this toil were born several of the songs in their repertoire. Over time, the original rice weeders' daughters, joined the group. Most of the women in the choir are now 70 to 80 years old. (in Italian)
• Cranna a' Cheoil, the dominating characteristic of their performing style is the respect for tradition, developed over many years of direct contact with performers from the North of Ireland and Scotland. Their repertoire ranges from the captivating rhythm of traditional dance tunes to deeply emotional solo pieces from which an original, Mediterranean, atmosphere emerges.
• Crifiu, Irish music with a lot of contaminants... (in Italian)
• Dahù Rabel, traditional music for bal folk. (in Italian)
• Gruppo Folkloristico Danzerini di Lucinico, since 1929 it has interpreted the traditions of the region of Friuli, the very eastern region of Italy, by performing dances, musics and scenes from the local traditions of the past centuries.
• Davide Van de Sfroos Band, folk rock band from Como: the star of "laghée", people who live near the lake of Como:
  • Official Site. (in Italian)
  • Cauboi - DVdS Official Fan Club. (in Italian)
  • DVdS page by Old Drake. (in Italian)
• Rosario de Marco, guitarist and composer, is renowned for his arrangements and performances of Neapolitan and popular music. His music capture the warmth of the Southern European lands, taking elements from flamenco, jazz, classical, folk and popular music.
• Devil In The Kitchen, Irish folk music.
• Diamantini & Battilani, is an eclectic duo (violin and accordion), playing almost everything for the folkdance parties and festivals. They teach dances from Veneto and Emilia Romagna, but also from France, Spain, Ireland, Israel, Greece, Balkans. (in Italian)
• Din delòn, was created by Andrea Capezzuoli and Sergio Gatti in 1999. They met Simona Scuri, folk singer and dance teacher and together they formulated the basis for a project where Italian folk songs and dance could meet in harmony. Soon after their first CD, they met hurdy-gurdy player Caroline Tallone who introduced, with her particular instrument, a rhythmic section in the group.
• Dioscuri, traditional music from Sicily. (in Italian)
• DisCanto, ethnic music from Abruzzi and Mediterranean region between research and new sounds. (in Italian)
• Discanto Siculo, came up on the musical scenario with a wide Sicilian traditional music repertoire. Afterwards they have been able to reach the new folk global trends. The aim of the band is to recuperate and to revalue the folk song tradition of the Nebrodi area. However their music combines tradition and innovation and it is influenced by other musical cultures of the Mediterranean areas with the use of agro-pastoral instruments. (in Italian)
• The Drunk Butchers, Irish rogue-folk from Bologna. (in Italian)
• Egin, folk rock band with strong Basque roots. (in Italian)
• Ensemble del Doppio Bordone, was formed in 1991, when some musicians from a wide range of musical backgrounds including folk, classical and early music met together. Their show is unique in both its content, and presentation.
• Ethnos, play the (newly arranged) traditional music of the Basilicata region. (in Italian)
• Etnoploc, the band members come from the Italian-Slovenian region between Trieste and Nova Gorica. They mix melodies from the Balkans with Klezmer and popular Russian music, but also Argentinian "tangos", Gospel and Blues. (in Italian and Slovenian)
• Faraualla, is a vocal quartet with the common interest in researching the use of the voice as an instrument. The results of this research are their original compositions evolved out of improvised matrices, much as traditional melodies do. The flavor of many far-away cultures merge in a highly original synthesis, though the cultural roots of this group from Puglia region are still strong and evident.
• Febbre Quartana, originate with the will to rediscover and revive stories and sounds from Lazio's and Southern Italy's people, that were partially or completely forgotten. (in Italian)
• Massimo Ferrante, "voices and sounds from Southern Italy" runs the subtitle of his debut album. His music spans the folk traditions of Sicily, Calabria and Campania stopping off in Abruzzo and even Greece along the way. Not forgetting his occasional forays into songs of protest and other social themes, stornelli, legends set to music, songs of celebration, singer storyteller numbers. (in Italian)
• Fiamma Fumana, is a group of young Italians on a quest to rediscover their own roots music. Their music is an intriguing blend of old Italian dance tunes played to new Italian dance grooves, traditional ballads and state-of-the art electronica, with an unexpected Celtic-sounding flavor to the mix. The result is clearly Italian yet broadly international in its appeal.
• Folkabbestia, is fun, spontaneity, warmth, love for the tradition and the culture of the Southern Italian people. (in Italian)
• Folkamazurka, plays mainly traditional dance music from the Veneto region and Northern Italy in general, together with "liscio popolare" (waltz, polka, mazurka, and scottish). (in Italian)
• Folkbanda, music for bal folk. (in Italian)
• Folk Rose, has created a very original style of European traditional music, mixing the Italian rhythms, tradition and tunes together with Celtic and North European sonorities.
• La Frasna, is the result of many different musical experiences where folk and jazz music are in opposition to the heavy and persistent lines of rock and blues. Their music is influenced by the traditional background of Provence, the Central France, from the Basque Countries and Ireland; starting from the musical tradition of Lombardy, particularly of Bergamo, where the interpretation is always different and energies merge together in a very exciting way.
• La Frontera, the sound of the Mediterranean sea. (in Italian)
• Lucilla Galeazzi, from the central Italian region of Umbria, she is a singer, writer and researcher of folk music. With her warm, beautiful voice, rich in the typical elements of Italian folk, she is without doubt one of the most interesting singers to have come out of the Italian folk music revival scene in the last few years.
• Galinverna, modern sonorities are melted with traditional, medioeval, French, Piedmontese, North-European and Mediterranean music, bringing to a suggestive mixture of ancient sonorities, tipical folk tunes and Middle-East harmonies.
• Beppe Gambetta, is recognized throughout Europe for his master and finesse of both flatpicking and fingerpicking guitar and is that continent's foremost guitar stylist.
• I Gioppini di Bergamo, this particular folkloristic group presents a performance consisting of different kinds of shows such as: a parade with instruments made in tin, wood and brass which go back to the Roman period; folk songs in 'Bergamasco' dialect, typical dances celebrating life style country people in Lombardy a Region of North Italy.
• Gitanes, the fascination of combat-rock, meets the energy of folk... (in Italian)
• Giù il cappello, the group plays and mixes music of various traditions with folk-rock arrangements: from Northern to Southern Italian music with Arab and Eastern European influences. (in Italian)
• Glee's, is an Irish music group from Sardinia. (in Italian)
• Piergiorgio Graglia, a new and unexplored utilise of Piedmont language for relate story and feelings in song-form with jazz and folk influence. (in Italian)
• The Green Linnet, Irish songs and tunes. (in Italian)
• Gruppo Emiliano, when the folk-music is cabaret. They play traditional folk music from Emilia which was played previously to the popular "ballo liscio".
• Gruppo Etnico-Musicale dei Panganoti-Cimbri, music and songs from Monte Tesoro, Lessinia (Verona), with ancient and modern instruments.
• Gruppo Folcloristico Agilla e Trasimeno, was formed in 1957, in order to revive some forms of rural and popular culture in Umbria, with particular regard to the zone of the lake Trasimeno. The group is composed by some young people, all from Castiglione del Lago, moved by a passion for the traditions of their land.
• Gruppo Folk Val Paradiso - Naro, traditional music and songs from Sicily. (in Italian)
• Gruppo Folkloristico Miromagnum, is composed by 65 musicians and dancers (persons of a wide range of age engaged in different works, students, employees, unemployed persons, managers and workers!) playing, dancing, singins the traditional music of the Calabria region.
• Gruppo Folkloristico Ortensia, play and dance the traditional music of the Piceno, which is part of the Marche region. (in Italian)
• Gruppo Storico e Sbandieratori Città di Castiglion Fiorentino, folklore from Tuscan Middle Ages. This historical group originates from the ancient custom of flag-waving dating back to the 12th century. The waving of flags is accompanied by the sound of drums and clarions highlighting the ancient military origin. The musicians together with the flag-wavers and the historical costume parade animate the pageant that precedes the display.
• Hobo, plays traditional songs and music belonging to the Arbëresh (Albanian) tradition in the Lucania region. (in Italian)
• InChanto, from Tuscany to Ireland. Since 1994 the band has operated a mix of Renaissance and Celtic music, singing in Italian, French, English and ancient Latin.
• Indaco, the main core of Indaco was born in 1991 from an idea of Rodolfo Maltese and Mario Pio Mancini. Their first album revealed an evident tendency towards the Celtic folk and the minimalist new age, but the second one marks a remarkable change in music style, toward a more Mediterranean sound.
• Indovinatoduo, is a trio (not a "duo"!) playing traditional Irish music. (in Italian)
• Inis Fail, traditional Irish music. (in Italian)
• In the Kitchen, is a folk-rock band, playing mainly covers from the Pogues. At the moment they are trying to mix rock, Celtic traditional music, Piedmontese traditional music and a (very) little of Italian pop.
• Les Irlandiis, comes from the passion for the beautiful atmospheres of the Irish pub. Initially born as a trio, became a 8-piece group playing Irish folk stirred with traditional American country music and Italian dances. (in Italian)
• Ishtar, Oriental dances and live Arabian world music. (in Italian)
• Islands, is a Scottish-Irish traditional music band from Catania. Musicians are Marco Conti (fiddle), Piera Arena (whistles, flute and vocals), Angelo Liotta (bouzouki, mandola, bodhran and vocals).
• Kosovni Odpadki, Electro Folk. They come from Friuli, the oriental border of Italy, but their linguistic and blood bond takes them from the Balkans to Argentina, from Bolivia to the Middle East. (in Italian)
• Kumenèi, is a powerful passionate rhythm machine made by some of the many musicians who contributed to the creative elaboration of the musical heritage of Salento. Their music comprehends traditional songs made in Puglia, Salento, Calabria and Naples which freely go to the actual sounds such reggae, ragamuffin, dub, techno, flamenco, blues. (in Italian)
• Lambardan, plays dances and ballads from Brittany to Occitany, from Provence to Liguria, the region where they come from. (in Italian)
• Consiglia Licciardi, is an extraordinary classic Neapolitan perfomer. After taking her degree in opera vocal perfomance she dedicated herself to classic Neapolitan song. Thanks to her refined musical attitude, she developed in a few years her own unique style. The undeniable musical gift, together with the uncomparable soothness of her voice, lets express herself even in different areas of Parthenopean song.
• Ligabosk, play dance music from both sides of the Alps (Italy and France), but also British Isles, Russia, Bulgaria and other Eastern European traditions. (in Italian)
• La Lionetta, since 1977 a folk Italian group that united roots and new music. After a lot of years now the group it's starting again for a new adventure... (in Italian)
• Lobas, traditional dance and music from Sardinia. (in Italian)
• Lady Jessica Lombardi, from Tuscany, she is a Celtic music devotee who plays flutes and whistles as well as the bagpipes. She plays with Fiamma Fumana and Dagda, but she is also involved in other projects with different (trad) musicians. (in Italian)
• Loose Chippings, traditional Irish music: jigs, reels, pub songs and ... beer! (in Italian)
• Loriband, music from different ages and different countries, from XIII century to other European folk songs. (in Italian)
• Ettore Losini, a.k.a. "Bani", maker and player of traditional oboes and bagpipes in the Northern Apennine. (in Italian)
• Lumàyna, present original versions of old and new folksongs from North and South Italy. A subtle mix of voice, hurdy-gurdy (Marcella Pischedda) guitars, and flutes (Hans Elzinga) which creates a suggestive emotion that folksongs have been able to create at all times.
• Mac Antock, Irish music. (in Italian)
• La Macina, songs and folk music orally transmitted from the Marches region. As far as the performance is concerned the group is conform to the expressive modalities of their origins, being able to draw lymph from the deepest roots of their land.
• Antonio Mainenti, singer and musician. His first musical experiences are in rock and folk music bands. From many years he works with soundtracks, composition, improvisation and art; he plays voice, strings, Jew's harps, frame drums. From 2001 he's involved in import/export and distribution of professional and popular instruments from all over the world.
• Malicanti, play and sing the music of country people, mostly from Salento and Gargano (Puglia). (in Italian)
• Riccardo Marasco, is ranked the most influential voice in the field of the traditional music of Tuscany. The style of his interpretations, along with the habit of accompanying himself on coeval guitars, remind the modern listeners of an old-style minstrel. His repertory, largely due to his research and creativity, is unique especially from the point of view of the form in which it is brought to the audience..
• Carlo Mariani, launeddas player, the typical Sardinian polyphonic reed instrument made up of three canes. (in Italian)
• Mascarimirì, the (new) traditional music from Salento (Puglia). (in Italian)
• Mastei, music for bal folk, they play songs and tunes from the Occitan area and Breton and Basque tradition. (in Italian)
• Matermatuta, etno-rock in Sicilian dialect. (in Italian)
• Giovanni Mauriello, is one of the founder of Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare. Not only music, but also theater and cinema in his artistic life. (in Italian)
• Kay McCarthy, Irish born, Italian by adoption, for over twenty years now, Kay McCarthy has been bringing Irish traditional music and culture to Italy. Her style is unequivocally her own: unique, refined, communicative it defies all labels and fads and is quite alien to fashion and defies the dictates of the market. Her repertoire ranges from traditional melodies to songs and instrumental tunes written by herself and her Italian musicians.
• McNando, is a five-piece band playing traditional Celtic music with original arrangements. (in Italian)
• Roberto Menabò, a careful interpreter of various aspect of folk music with particular attention to original blues and the different techniques of acoustic guitar.
• Vito Mercurio, violinist and composer playing his own brand of electroacoustic, progressive, Mediterranean folk. (in Italian)
• Milagro Acustico, the band inspiration and influence is clearly derived from the Mediterranean, and more specifically from the Middle East line, Sicily and Spain as well as shades from other cultures such as the Indonesian and Magrebin culture.
• Modena City Ramblers, from Irish folk music to Combat Folk. (in Italian)
• Meikenut, traditional music for bal folk. (in Italian)
• Menamenamò, propose a rich repertoire of popular songs from the Salento tradition. They are love and work songs, together with pizziche resulting from an ethnomusicological research started in '78. (in Italian)
• Mercanti di Liquore, a "power folk trio", mixing traditional music with folk songs and other music. The line-up is really acoustic: two guitars, an accordion and boots heels. (in Italian)
• MeRitmiRì, rhythms and rites from the South of Italy. (in Italian)
• Mireille Ben Ensemble, basing its work on Mireille Ben's vocal skills, the band traces back the way of the traditional Francophone songs, developing compositions through an interesting rhythmic and harmonic intertwine. (in Italian)
• Morrigan's Wake, traditional folk music from Northern Italy and Celtic countries. (in Italian)
• Carlo Muratori, is a Sicilian singer-composer. While still at the early phase of his musical career as a rock and pop guitarist, his passion for popular Sicilian culture, customs and traditions, songs and music of the lowly poor people of his native Sicily has been greatly manifest. For this, he has dedicated himself to the study and research of Sicilian music of oral tradition.
• I Musicalia, a research project founded at the end of the 70's by a group of studious and musicians, has more and more grown thanks to the strong artistic and managerial committment of Amerigo and Marcello Ciervo. The original project had two main goals: the research and recover of the "folkloric materials" of the inner Campania and, more in particular, of the Sannio area and their set-up in a dramatic key.
• Musicanta, a cocktail to be drunk in every season: ¼ of traditional Italian music, ¼ of music from Québec, ¼ of frantic stamping, ¼ (moderate) quebequoise beer. Shake it well at "reel" rhythm with a lot of ice and garnish with songs and mad dances.
• I Musicanti, is more than a musical group: it is a traditional music project. Starting from their own Sicily, they mix other Mediterranean flavours with new sounds (jazz, rock, etc.). (in Italian)
• Musicanti del Piccolo Borgo, traditional music from Central and Southern Italy (Molise, Campania, Lazio and Puglia) played on traditional instruments. (in Italian)
• Musicastoria, seeks to renovate and promote the musical heritage of Southern Italy by applying modern technology and instruments to traditional folk songs. (in Italian)
• I Musici, traditional folk music from the Celtic countries. (in Italian)
• Musici Vagantes, plays traditional, ancient and Celtic music. (in Italian)
• Musicofilia, traditional music from the Calabria region. (in Italian)
• Michela Musolino, is a performer who specializes in Sicilian folk music.
• Sebastiano Nanè, cultivates the enthusiasm for traditional music and the study of wind instruments of every country of the World with a particular passion, in particular, for the bagpipes. He is also a master of the traditional Sicilian small flute, the friscalettu. He is also involved in some "non-traditional" project with his instruments. (in Italian)
• 'Na Maravigghia, Sicilian (and Southern Italian) traditional songs and dances. (in Italian)
• Nakaira, is a Sicilian World music group. They perform traditional music from East Europe, Balkans, Middle East and Celtic Areas (Ireland, North Spain...), as well as original music. The musical project aims at connecting styles of different ethnic areas, sometimes putting them closely together in order to reveal their similarities, sometimes mixing to obtain a pleasant music.
• Naracàuli, folk music from the south of Italy (Puglia, Campania, Calabria): pizziche, tammurriate, tarantelle. (in Italian)
• Ned Ludd, a no profit combat folk group coming from Rome.
• Nickey Nick Band, five musicians and Nickey (a leprechaun) playing Irish and Celtic music.
• Nirmegh, etno-pop in Italian and sicilian dialect. (in Italian)
• Nìstanimèra, Greek Songs and Musics from Calabria and Puglia. (in Italian)
• Nocino Folk, play traditional music for bal folk: dances from Italy, France, British Isles, Eastern Europe and namy other countries. (in Italian)
• Nôtre de Bèrghem (de sura), is a friendly group of individuals from the Brember Valley (Val Brembana, Bergamo) who provide popular typical regional folklore music and song, in a friendly and fun manner. They are happy to, if the occasion so arises, to present popular songs from other regions of Italy. They bring back a picturesque musical atmosphere, that was missing from the folklore of the Brember Valley.
• Novalia, is a band of Italian folk rock veterans, having formed some 16 years ago and producing their own version of pop music based solidly within Mediterranean traditions. Novalia combines traditional European music with modern popular music idioms resulting in a very emotional folk pop. (in Italian)
• Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, in the first half of the 1970s, the NCCP affirmed itself nationwide, proceeding to recover, decidedly and explicitly, the repertoires, instruments and expressive methods of the Neapolitan tradition although - according to some - their efforts were mostly focused on written sources. 30 years later the project is the same:
  • Official NCCP Site.
  • Unofficial NCCP Site. (in Italian)
• Nuova Compagnia della Tammorra, was formed about twenty years ago, by a group of young friends who wanted to work together to preserve something they thought was important, in particular the tammurriata. They learned from the old people in their communities - and not just songs and techniques of playing, but also about the land and the seasons and their own village histories.
• Oenach, a group from Asti disseminating the vocal musical traditions of Celtic areas. (in Italian)
• Enza Pagliara, sings the tradition of the Salento region. (in Italian)
• Antonello Paliotti, guitarist and composer. He has been working with Roberto De Simone since 1986, as both a band director and composer. Paliotti is the latest in a long line of musicians who for over a century have been mixing to perfection the ingredients of classicism and popular tradition, and who without losing itself in exotic mannerism, have been able to expand its horizons towards the rest of the Mediterranean, through knowing allusions to Arabic and Andalusian music. (in Italian)
• La Paranza del Geco, play (and dance) the traditional music of the Southern Italy. (in Italian)
• Andrea Piccioni, has a decennial experience on percussions, especially inside the field of frame drums and the Italian tamburello. He developed a personal execution technique, related to specific exercises to develop the use of the instrument in a 360 degrees musical scenario.
• Pietrarsa, is a group of musicians who have a long-standing and active relationship to the folk music of southern Italy and the Mediterranean. Traditional material is performed in a style faithful to the folk idiom, even though the group is engaged in a conscious attempt to "rethink" this kind of music.
• Pìvari Trio, wants to revive a musical tradition bringing it back from the oblivion. It's not a hagiografical operation, but a suggestion to reappropriate a repertoire and change it according to their own taste and musical experiences.
• Mario Poletti, is a plectrum instruments player (mandolin, mandola, mandocello, Irish bouzouki, tenor banjo). Actually he plays with the folk-rock Occitan group Lou Dalfin, but it is also member of the "Mario Poletti Quartetto" (world music and ethnojazz) and "Amarcorde" trio (italian swing, manouche e musica d'autore: Nino Rota, Fiorenzo Carpi ecc..), he collaborates with the group "Ficelles-artzet" from Valle d'Aosta. He is also involved in many multimedia projects (music for theatre, movies and TV series). (in Italian)
• Matilde Politi, Sicilian traditional songs. (in Italian)
• Polverfolk, traditional music from Ireland, Scotland and Brittany. (in Italian)
• Quartaumentata, is engaged in revive the local linguistic tradition, enriched it musically with sonorities, melodies, atmosphere and rhythms (also from different musical latitudes) that today characterize the "world music", emphasizing, by text, the life conditions, the problems and the hopes of the Southern Italy. (in Italian)
• Radicanto, combine traditional Southern Italian music with modern sensibilities: ethnomusicology joins technology, popular music heritages, particulary Apulian folk music, combine with modern generes such as ethno-jazz and world music.
• I Ratti della Sabina, started playing together in 1996, with the main goal of fusing Folk music colours with Rock sounds.
• Re Niliu, traditional music and research from Calabria (South of Italy) contaminated with rock and Mediterranean sounds. (in Italian)
• Reverie, is a "progressive folk" ensemble which plays both original tracks and pieces from the Renaissance and Baroque tradition. Original tracks are inspired by many influences: ancient music, mediterranean folk, ambient, pop, etc. Lyrics are mainly in Italian. (in Italian)
• Rhapsodija Trio, traditional music from the East of Europe. (in Italian)
• La Rionda, is the best known and full of history in Liguria (and its sea traditions) music revival. A large band with great voices (Laura Parodi and Max Manfredi) and appreciated musicians. (in Italian)
• Rosapaeda, the musical project of the Italian female vocalist Rosa Paeda. From the great popular heritage of South Italy to a new Mediterranean fusion:
  • Rosapaeda Official Site
  • Rosapaeda at Sottosuono
• Lu Rosciu Nosciu, the sound of Salento. Ethnic music from the deep South of Italy. (in Italian)
• Gruppo Folk Ru Maccature, the folk group is formed by 25 dancers, singers and musicians; their repertoire is based in the peasant tradition of the Molise region. (in Italian)
• Rua Port'Alba, traditional, folk (...and some other kind of) music from Naples.
• Gruppo Folkoristico I Ruspanti della Valdaso, traditional songs and dances from the Marche region. (in Italian)
• Carmelo Salemi, world music from the heart of Sicily. (in Italian)
• Mario Salvi, is one of the best diatonic accordion player and (in general) folk musician in Italy. (in Italian)
• Sancto Ianne, originating in the South of italy (Benevento near Naples), the ensemble brings together musicians from various musical crosscurrents, all passionate about Italian traditional music. The formation is acoustic and the group creates its own popular compositions (tammurriate e tarantelle) using the traditional instruments and telling stories of places, heroes and legends with a very modern and personal language.
• Sansculottes, traditional music trio for bal folk. (in Italian)
• Umberto Sangiovanni, traditional music from Foggia, Apulia, is the starting point of this group, but the tunes the band plays combine also jazz and Italian melodies. (in Italian)
• Simona Sciacca, is a young singer able to mix different musical styles, from pop music to World-ethnic, and Sacred music. (in Italian)
• Sciroccu, voices and sounds from the Mediterranean Sea. In their music you will find the echo of enchanted Arabian dances, the passion of tango, the heat of Spain, Portuguese melodies, but the roots remain in the Sicilian tradition. (in Italian)
• Scosabrètta, group of research on the ethic dances in Emilia and Romagna. They hold stages, animate bal folk, and participate to conferences on the dance patrimony of Emilia Romagna. (in Italian)
• La Sedon Salvadie, founded in 1982 this band has been the first to play with a new spirit the traditional music of Friuli, a region where different ethnic minorities live together from many centuries. This is the top folk band in Friuli and one of the best ones in Italy.
• Daniele Sepe, avantgarde meets traditional music. Sepe is not traditionalist, he "de-composes" traditional styles while still offering loving respect to them. The roots music of Naples and Southern Italy is only the beginning of the stew. It's thickened with classic jazz, pureed with pop and soul, then served on a plate of Brecht garnished with avantgarde idosyncracies.
• Shamal, Sicilian world music with Arabic influences. (in Italian)
• Shamrock, traditional tunes and dances from Ireland and Celtic area. (in Italian)
• Raffaello Simeoni, is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He is a co-founder in 1985 of Novalia, one of the more innovative groups of Italian traditional music. He has composed music for the theatre, cinema, dance, television and poetry. (in Italian)
• The Singing Pub, traditional Celtic music band entirely composed by Italian musicians (from Genova).
• Sniper, East European music in Western popular sauce.
• La Sornette, EtnoAcustic North-Italian Music. (in Italian)
• Spadara, traditional music for bal folk. (in Italian)
• Spakkabrianza, music for bal folk, they play songs and tunes from the French and Occitan area, together with some step in the Southern Italian tradition. (in Italian)
• Ambrogio Sparagna is an Italian diatonic accordion player. In its music he explores the South of Italy and the Mediterranean musical tradition, in both traditional and original songs. He has collaborated with Italian renowned musicians like Lucio Dalla, Angelo Branduardi, Francesco De Gregori, Teresa De Sio and many others. (in Italian)
• Stefano Saletti and Piccola Banda Ikona, the musical path of the Piccola Banda Ikona becomes a fascinating journey between the sounds and cultures of the Mediterranean, mixed with the atmospheres of the popular traditions of Southern Italy and Balkan, Greek and Sephardic melodies. A journey in search of a musical and lyrical language that goes beyond folkloristic stereotypes, though which is characterised by its reworking of popular music.
• I Samadur, traditional songs and music from the Brember Valley (Val Brembana, Bergamo). (in Italian)
• Stefano Zuffi & Pneumatica Emiliano Romagnola, born in 2001 and composed by musicians that have many years of esperience about folk and popular music in Emilia Romagna the Stefano Zuffi & Pneumatica Emiliano Romagnola group is considered, today, after the pubblication of 4 CD, one of the most important group for the music of that region of Italy. (in Italian)
• Lino Straulino, he is not only a singer, but rather a poet. He mixes together different kinds of music to reveal his thoughts, aspects of nature that strike him most, and the little things that we are.
• Stygiens, is a young trio playing traditional dance music from different European traditions. (in Italian)
• Suonabanda, balli staccati from the Emilian tradition. (in Italian)
• Suonatori della Val Fregia, music for bal folk, they play tunes from Italy and France. (in Italian)
• Suriscot Trio, a very young group playing progressive folk. (in Italian)
• Caroline Tallone Sauthier, she plays several instruments (hurdy-gurdy, melodeon, violin and voice) in several traditional groups (Din delòn, SansculoTTes, and in duo with Andrea Capezzuoli, among the others), but she is also a lutist. (in Italian)
• Tanca Rujia, a jouney around the world with Sardina as its center of gravity.
• Tarantula Rubra, the idea of TR is to broadcast popular music from South Italy and Mediterranean music too, flying around the planet because the taranta is a myth and a rhythm running around the world and uniting all the countries.
• Guglielmo Tasca, Sicilian folk singer. (in Italian)
• Tendachënt, progressive folk rock from the North of Italy. (in Italian)
• Tenores and Traditional Sardinian 4-voices choirs singing from the centre of Sardinia is a vocal style which is fascinating, primitive and strong. The guttural use of voices and the typical songs of intonation, cannot be confused with anything else and make this millenary art have great impact. A magic of the human voice:
  • Coro Città di Ozieri (in Italian)
  • Coro di Bonnannaro (in Italian)
  • Coro di Usini, traditional choir from Sardinia. (in Italian)
  • Coro Ortobene di Nuoro, traditional choir from Sardinia. (in Italian)
  • Coro Polifonico Bachis Sulis, traditional choir from Sardinia. (in Italian)
  • Coro Polifonico di Ovodda (in Italian)
  • Tenores de Sos Nurattolos (in Italian)
  • Tenores di Bitti "Mialinu Pira" (in Italian)
  • Tenores di Bitti "Remunnu 'E Locu" official web site of vocal quartet of Central Sardinia. Description of songs, mp3. Find out the charm of a millenary song which fascinates many international musicians such as Peter Gabriel, Frank Zappa, Lester Bowie, Ornette Colemann.
  • Tenores di Neoneli, provise traditional texts but above all texts composed by the group itself and dealing with different "modern" subjects.
  • Tenores Gòine Nuoro (in Italian)
• Riccardo Tesi, composer, researcher, instrumentalist: these are the souls of the versatile artistic personality of Riccardo Tesi, authentic pioneer of world music in Italy.
• Tihai, represents a musical challenge taken up by two friends, the Italian acoustic guitarist Luca Calore and the sound engineer Mattia Berti, along with the collaboration of the renowed Indian Sitarist Deobrat Mishra. Their songs are based on guitar-sitar duets and they develop melodies deeply rooted in the indian classical music theory and in its rhythms, painted with the colours of harmony.
• Tirnamoe, traditional Celtic music with an approach that reminds sometimes ancient music, sometimes gets closer to contemporary music melodic and harmonic patterns.
• Tremalnaik Folk Music, music for bal folk. (in Italian)
• Tre Martelli, is one of the more important groups in the Italian roots music movement, since 1976. They research and ricreate the folk music of the North Italian Piedmont region. (in Italian)
• Trenzas, is a group who works since 1990 formed by the Argentinian vocalist Maria Fernanda Morosini and the italian guitar player Luigi Catuogno playing Argentinian folk music, tango and traditional music of South Italy. (in Italian)
• Tribù Acustica is a musical band from Orvieto. They combine the art of italian songwriters with the strength and immediateness of traditional music. The result is a very particular mix between the sounds of acustic instruments of tradition and modern music styles, in which tarantellas cheerfully live together funk-rhythms.
• Tri Muzike, proposes a musical trip, following sound and cultural authenticity among oral and written Slavonic, Greek, Jewish, Arabic, Turkish and Rom traditions. "Contamination" music always suspended among Europe, Africa and Asia.
• Trio Grande, plays the dances from their region (Emilia and Romagna) as well as dances from other Italian regions and some music from France, Spain, Ireland, Israel, ansd Balkans. (in Italian)
• Triolet, traditional music trio for bal folk. (in Italian)
• Trouveur Valdotèn, traditional music from Aosta Valley and surrounding Alpine regions. (in French)
• Tùatha Dé Danann, traditional Celtic music.
• Uaragniaun, is the name of a group of musicians who repropose old traditional popular music from the South of Italy, in particular songs collected in the hinterland of Puglia, the Alta Murgia area.
• U Cuoscene, group of ethnic music from the Molise region, particularly attached to the popular traditions of Santa Croce di Magliano (Campobasso). (in Italian)
• Uva Grisa, traditional music, songs and dances from the Romagna region. (in Italian)
• Stefano Valla & Daniele Scurati, their musical repertoire is deeply bound to the Quattro Province (Genova, Piacenza, Alessandria, Pavia) territory. Their initiative is intended to keep alive the music and oral traditional culture of this region and to work on its diffusion during festas, concerts, seminars, and dance performances. They also perform their own music, characterized by a strong vitality and modernity and inspired by other musical genres.
• Le Vent du Moulin, is a family duo (father and daughter) that comes along with guitar and flutes, or gaita and hurdy gurdy. They play for folkdance parties just French and Irish tunes. (in Italian)
• Ventu Novu, traditional music from South Italy, from tarantella to pizzica tarantata mixed with Rock, Blues and Country. (in Italian)
• Viamedina, is a street of Naples by the Port, a meeting-point of different cultures and people. Once, in the nearby alleys there were a few nightclubs where tangos and tarantellas, blues and Tammurriate, jazz and popular Neapolitan songs were played and mixed together. Now that the clubs are gone, Viamedina gets a new life in this interesting musical project that, starting from the dialect, the melodies and the instruments of the Neapolitan tradition, takes different roads in order to put a new lymph in an already rich heritage of ancient memories.
• I Viulan, 35 years of collection and re-proposition of the traditional music and songs of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine. (in Italian)
• Whisky Trail, formed in Florence in 1975, their music has evolved over the years, and has delved deep down into the roots of Irish and Scottish culture. Their repertoire reaches across a wide range of forms, from epic ballads to the irresistible cadence of Northern European folk music. (in Italian)
• The Wild Slugs, trio which proposes traditional musics from the Celtic area, mainly irish.
• Ziringaglia, folk music from the traditions of South of Italy (Apulia) with gipsy, rom and klezmer sounds. (in Italian)
• Vincenzo Zitello, composer, harpist, experimenter and concertist researcher: these are the aspects of a multi-faced creativity and artistic personality characterizing Vincenzo Zitello, historically first promoter and Celtic Harp musician in Italy.
• Zuf de Zur, is a band from Gorizia exploring the varied repertoire of border music through both original and traditional compositions. The musicians interpret their repertoire with passion and with a mid-European conscience that makes this band a new reference point in the landscape of the Italian revival.