Traditional music in pubs

Daisy 55

I'm looking for pubs that have traditional music? It's for foreign visitors, but I don't know anywhere. Anyone have a suggestion?

thomasm

I think the Reg do Trad sessions on certain nights.

Daisy 55

I heard that too, but when I rang them it more ballads.

Deiseen

Daisy 55 wrote: »

I heard that too, but when I rang them it more ballads.

Tully's do some I think.

Deiseen

This is one thing Waterford needs to improve on. In Galway and Dublin, there's trad in loads of pubs and its great! Great music, great atmosphere and the tourists love it.

mooseknunkle

Kitty Kiernans on Barracks street has trad music a couple of nights a week

Adyx

Deiseen wrote: »

This is one thing Waterford needs to improve on. In Galway and Dublin, there's trad in loads of pubs and its great! Great music, great atmosphere and the tourists love it.

Bolded the problem parts.

Deiseen

Adyx wrote: »

Deiseen wrote: »

This is one thing Waterford needs to improve on. In Galway and Dublin, there's trad in loads of pubs and its great! Great music, great atmosphere and the tourists love it.

Bolded the problem parts.

Whats your point

Adyx

Tourists don't spend enough money in pubs and Waterford doesn't have the volume or diversity of a local crowd that Galway and Dublin have to make it worth a pubs while.

Deiseen

Adyx wrote: »

Tourists don't spend enough money in pubs and Waterford doesn't have the volume or diversity of a local crowd that Galway and Dublin have to make it worth a pubs while.

Its no Galway, but Waterford is the top 10 tourist spot in Ireland. If the top 10 can't achieve something then Ireland should just give up completely.

endacl

Adyx wrote: »

Tourists don't spend enough money in pubs and Waterford doesn't have the volume or diversity of a local crowd that Galway and Dublin have to make it worth a pubs while.

Plenty of pubs host music sessions with ne'r a tourist in sight. They're the ones the musicians like.



OP, you could phone around and see if any of these are still going:

https://thesession.org/sessions/search?day=&q=waterford

Flow Motion

I think people are forgetting that up to pretty recently Waterford had one of the best trad pubs in the country. T & H Doolans in Georges St. I know it was bought by the same crew that own J & K. Walshs further up the road and is rumoured to be reopening in the not too distant future. Watch this space.

Deiseen

Flow Motion wrote: »

I think people are forgetting that up to pretty recently Waterford had one of the best trad pubs in the country. T & H Doolans in Georges St. I know it was bought by the same crew that own J & K. Walshs further up the road and is rumoured to be reopening in the not too distant future. Watch this space.

Folk songs. Not trad.

Flow Motion

Deiseen wrote: »

Folk songs. Not trad.

Potato, Potahto..Tomato, Tomahto!:rolleyes:

Both folk songs and trad are cosy bedfellows.
T&H's had (has) a mix of trad AND folk sessions. It had (has)
an international reputation for great Irish traditional music.
Renowned singer Liam Clancy (of The Clancy Bros) both played in
and owned the joint @ one stage. And there were many more famous
acts who frequented the pub down thru the years.

Deiseen

Flow Motion wrote: »

Potato, Potahto..Tomato, Tomahto!:rolleyes:

Both folk songs and trad are cosy bedfellows.
T&H's had (has) a mix of trad AND folk sessions. It had (has)
an international reputation for great Irish traditional music.
Renowned singer Liam Clancy (of The Clancy Bros) both played in
and owned the joint @ one stage. And there were many more famous
acts who frequented the pub down thru the years.

I dont remember ever seeing an actual proper trad session in T and H's, could be mistaken thou.

They're not the same thing as folk tunes btw, completely different.

PTH2009

Trad seems to all sound the same to me and it's gets repetitive after a while but the tourists love it and lap it up

To me ballads is people singing Dubliners/Clancys etc and is a better night than trad

TheQuietFella

The Granville had a good display of performers when I last dined in there.

ArtVandelay76

Flow Motion wrote: »

I think people are forgetting that up to pretty recently Waterford had one of the best trad pubs in the country. T & H Doolans in Georges St. I know it was bought by the same crew that own J & K. Walshs further up the road and is rumoured to be reopening in the not too distant future. Watch this space.

Wouldn't be too sure about t+h's opening up anytime soon.

Crusty Blaa

ArtVandelay76 wrote: »

Wouldn't be too sure about t+h's opening up anytime soon.

Are you in a position to expand on this? I’ve been curious as to why it’s still closed.

ArtVandelay76

Crusty Blaa wrote: »

Are you in a position to expand on this? I’ve been curious as to why it’s still closed.

Just going by what i've been told by staff in their other pub. They don't know whats happening either.
They bought T+H's 3 or 4 years ago and there's no work after going on in there in a long time. They were also meant to extend out the back of J+K Walshs, that hasn't happened either.