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Waterford is said to be the oldest town in Ireland. The music and folk scene here is thriving and the ghost of the famous folk-singer Liam Clancy, who lived here, is never far away.

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Although the Christmas season has passed, winter is still here and it is a seasonal album that I present to you here. This is the album of the Irish-American-Canadian band Runa, which I have already written about on this site and in Trad Magazine.

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Fiddler Alastair Savage was born and raised on the Ayrshire coast south west of Glasgow. His early inspiration came from his father's accordion which introduced him to traditional Scottish music.

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In Ireland, Ghillie's are fishing guides. But they are also and above all little Irish dancing slippers. And it is indeed dancing and as a corollary Irish music that we are talking about here.