Trad Ireland Traditional Irish Music label contains many rare recordings which include legends such as Micho Russell, Tulla Céilí Band, Tommy Peoples to name a few is the result of over thirty years of hard work and dedication recording various artistes, groups & bands from all over Ireland. Trad Ireland began as a cassette duplication and recording company called GTD back in 1980.
These recordings can be purchased post free by sending cheque, postal order or by PayPal to Trad Ireland c/o Galway Tape Duplication Co Ltd, Liosban Industrial Estate, Tuam Road, Galway. Ireland 353 (0) 91 757459.
Sean Walsh, founder and director is also a musician and composer and was born into a traditional music family in Dunmore, Co. Galway. His father Tom Walsh was well known for his unique whistle playing having won numerous cups and medals at Fleadh Ceoil competitions to which he travelled the length and breadth of Ireland. He also played accordion, flute and fiddle and was a member of St. John's Ceili band along with his brother Paddy on concert flute, his niece Kathleen Flaherty (Fiddle/Accordion) and nephew Michael Flaherty (Flute/Accordion). Sean's mother Nellie Walsh was an established and much sought after accordionist who played for house parties and at all the local dances, she also wrote quite a lot of songs which have been recorded by various artistes including Sean himself.
Amongst her most popular songs were "My native Clonberne" and "The little thatched house" in which she relates to the way of life in her young days. "My old home town Dunmore" & 'The fair in Dunmore" also reminisce about the old days of cross road ceilis, fair days, markets and carefree times which have now all but vanished. Thankfully, songs of this nature take us back to those days of peace and contentment and we must always appreciate the rich legacy left to us by all the wonderful musicians and songwriters from older generations. Nellie Walsh is featured on a CD entitled "Sittin' on the bridge below the town" which is a three generation recording featuring Nellie Walsh and her two sons Tom & Sean, Seans daughter Andrea and Kathleen Flaherty.
The Trad Ireland label hosts many unique and rare recordings of singers and musicians from all over Ireland. Trad Ireland is privileged to have the exclusive rights to many fine recordings of world famous artistes and bands. As you browse through our extensive catalogue you will find recordings by the renowned Tulla and Kilfenora Ceili Bands, Donal Ring, Shaskeen, Ritchie Fitzgerald Ceili Band, Seamus Tansey, Tommy Peoples, Micho Russell and many more.
There is a great diversity in the music available at Trad Ireland. On the one hand there's jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, set dances, slides and various Irish dance music, then there are beautiful slow airs and laments which capture the haunting and mysterious side of Irish music and culture, not forgetting the great Irish ballads made famous by the Dubliners, Clancy brothers and Paddy Reilly to name a few, which include sad songs of emigration and bygone days to the rollicking sing along ballads which can be heard live at a typical singing pub in rural Ireland's villages and towns.
Some Irish folk music also shares a similiarity with American country music which is broadly known as Country & Irish and very popular with all lovers of country music. Big Tom, Susan McCann, Margo, Hugo Duncan are some of our most prominent exponents of Irish country and many are available from Trad Ireland at very competitive prices. Trad Ireland supports Irish Folk, traditional and country music ardently, local and well known Irish musicians and bands have used our services over the years.
Trad Ireland prides itself on it's relationship with Irish music and the many fine musicians on the Galway based Trad Ireland label which is situated in the West of Ireland close to sources of pure Gaelic tradition and close to Co Clare and the beautiful burren, which is home to many great Traditional musicians which include Sharon Shannon, Gary Shannon, Chris Droney, Micho Russell, Martin Vaughan,PJ Hernon, Shaskeen, Kilfenora and Tulla Ceili bands and numerous others.
The music which is available on the Trad Ireland catalogue reflects the authentic musical traditions and heritage of Ireland. The Trad Ireland archive contains a vast collection of over 300 recordings of various musicians,singers, groups, ceili bands, seanos singers and story tellers, but not all of them are yet available on disc. Many titles were previously released on cassette tape and vinyl and are now being remastered and released on compact disc. This process takes time as sleeve information, and photographs have to be sourced. The production of a quality CD album is expensive as it entails recording engineers, graphic design, printing of booklets and backliners and of course CD duplication, packaging, barcoding and royalties, therefore it would be impossible to release in a short time all the recordings which are presently on master tape, many which are unedited. Much of this work we do ourselves and we also offer this service to anyone who wishes to have recordings on old reels or cassettes, enhanced and transferred to disc.
We are constantly working on producing all the Traditional Irish Music recordings from our archive and also adding new and previously released cassette recordings to our CD catalogue.
We trust you will find something you like on our current listing and that you will become a regular visitor to our expanding catalogue of the very best of traditional Irish music and song.
