Fanny Power: beating the drum for women bodhrán players in 2020.

A newsletter created to find out what an all-female lineup of bodhrán experts would look like by interviewing one serious female player per month in 2020. Amy was interviewed for the January issue! 

Danú will get you hooked on traditional Irish bands

"The seven-member band is based in Ireland - there's a lone American, Wisconsin native Amy Richter on the bodhran; more of her later {...} Richter performed a bodhran solo that far surpassed anything I've heard on this drum."

‘Irish Christmas’ Delivers Gaelic Flavor to the Holidays

Jesse Langen on guitar (and occasionally fife), Ryan McKasson on fiddle and Amy Richter on bodhrán wove lovely traditional arrangements of, and breathed beautiful life and expression into, a wide variety of tunes both familiar and obscure. As with the entire show, each of the three was given solo performing time.

AN IRISH CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION

"An extended solo performance on the bodhran (Irish drum) by Amy Richter followed, which began slowly and quietly, and gently accelerated to a bracing tempo and volume, highlighting the huge variety of tones and sounds the bodhran can generate."

irish music magazine review

"áthas has become the band of choice for dancers in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas in a very short time. Their first album is self-titled: Irish for joy and happiness. It is an interesting and tuneful work, made up of old tunes and new compositions."