Introduction ..............................................................................................5
Background, the conference organisers ............................................................7
The conference ...........................................................................................9
Speakers ..................................................................................................10
Given paper summaries ..............................................................................12
Pat "Herring" Ahern - Fiche Bliain ag Fás: A personal account of twenty years of change & tradition ....................................................................................15
Fenella Bazin - Manx Music, lessons from the past .........................................19
Margaret Bennett - From Kennedy Fraser to the Jimmy Shandrix Experience ......28
Georgina Boyes - Unnatural selection: Choice and privileging in English Cultural Tradition. .................................................................................................38
Barry Burgess - Irish music in education - a Northern Ireland perspective ............45

Nicholas Carolan - Irish music to 1600AD - traditions and innovations .............52
Catherine Curran - Changing audiences for traditional Irish music ....................56
Martin W. Dowling - Communities, place, the traditions of Irish dance music .....64
Janet Topp Fargion - Continuity, Change and the Forging of Identities .............72
Reg Hall - Heydays are short lived: change in music-making practice in rural Ireland, 1850-1950. ...............................................................................................77
Hammy Hamilton - Innovation, Conservatism, and the Aesthetics of Irish Traditional Music ......................................................................................82
Robbie Hannan - Tradition and innovation - the case of uilleann piping ............88
Janet Harbison - Harpists, Harpers or Harpees? .............................................94
Cathy Larson Sky - Building bridges: challenges in playing, performing, and teaching Irish music in the American South ..................................................101
Caoimhín Mac Aoidh - The Critical Role of Education in the Development of Traditional Music in the Republic of Ireland ................................................107
Tony Mac Mahon - Music of the powerful and majestic past ..........................112
Dermot McLoughlin - Why pay the piper? .................................................121
Mick Moloney - Acculturation, assimilation and revitalisation: Irish music in urban America, 1960­1996 ................................................................................125
John Moulden - "Sing us a folk song, Mouldy" .........................................135
Tom Munnelly - Black pudding and bottles of smoke ...................................140
Barra Ó Cinnéide - The Riverdance Phenomenon: Crosbhealach an Damhsa ...148
Joe O'Donovan - Evolution and innovation in our hundred years of Irish traditional dancing .................................................................................................156
Máire O'Keeffe - Tradition versus change: the Irish button accordion .............160
Lillis Ó Laoire -'Dearnad sa Bhrochán -Tradition and Change in Music in a Donegal Community' ..............................................................................166
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin - Crossroads or twin track? Innovation and tradition in Irish traditional music .............................................................................175
Rina Schiller - Gender and traditional Irish music .........................................200
Thérèse Smith - The challenge of bringing oral traditions of music into an academic teaching environment ..............................................................................206
Seamus Tansey - Irish Traditional Music - the melody of Ireland's soul; it's evolution from the environment, land and people ..........................................211
Johanne Trew - Ottawa Valley fiddling: issues of identity and style .................214
Ríonach Uí Ógáin - 'Camden Town go Ros a Mhíl'- Athrú ar ghnéithe de thraidisiún amhránaíochta Chonamara .........................................................219
Ríonach Uí Ógáin - From Camden Town to Ros an Mhíl - changes in the Connamara singing tradition ....................................................................226
Desi Wilkinson - An overview of popular Breton traditional dance music ..........234

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