Episode 26-Kitchen to Concert Stage

When musicians and dancers create performances for a global audience, do Celtic traditions get a big boost? Do they lose anything on the road to the performing arts center?

This month, I explore the journey from put to PAC through the lens of Riverdance and the Breton band Kornog: if these acts hadn’t left Ireland or the Northwest of France to perform in the US, where would traditional music be? And would there be an Irish Music Stories Podcast???

I'll travel from Brittany to Boston, and back in time to 1983, when Kornog recorded their debut album, with the psychedelic cover and the groundbreaking flute and fiddle playing. Warning: contents contain trace elements of The Sex Pistols in the un-punk rock key of C Major.