"Titrwm Tatrwm" performed by IONA (www.ionamusic.com ) in concert at the Institute of Musical Traditions (www.imtfolk.org), Rockville, Maryland, USA on November 7, 2011.

In 1986, Barbara Tresidder Ryan and Bernard Argent joined forces with Barbara Seymour and Alan Oresky to create IONA, named after a Hebridean Island off the west coast of Scotland that has been synonymous with Celtic culture for 3,000 years. There have been 15 band members since IONA's inception, each of whom has molded the band into its present form. Ryan and Argent have continued to be the core of the band from the outset, leading it through an evolution that encompasses music and dance from all the Celtic lands: Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany (France), Asturies and Galicia (Spain), and, of course, America, the biggest Celtic melting pot in the world.

The current band is Barbara Ryan, Bernard Argent, Jim Queen, Chuck Lawhorn and Kathleen Larrick.

Sound: Art Isaacs, Ben Majchrzak, Dave Richardson, Dave Eisner

Camera: Dick Tufts, Laura Christoplos, Emily Whiting

Editing: Ralph Lillie

© 2011, Institute of Musical Traditions

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