There’s no need to wait for March: The Emerald Isle is coming to the City of Green on Saturday in the form of a traditional Irish music session. It’s like one that may be found in Ireland, often in a ...

More power to his elbow as uilleann pipe maker and musician Aodán MacSéafraidh celebrates three decades of creating the pipes ...

The term “trad music,” short for traditional music, usually describes a type of folk music, though it can apply to other ...

TODAY, MANY STILL WORK TO HONOR THOSE TRADITIONS. IT’S FAST, IT’S ELECTRIC, AND IT’S FILLED WITH HISTORY AND HEART. I’VE TAUGHT DANCING NONSTOP FOR 70 YEARS, BOTH HERE IN IRELAND. THE SHARP RHYTHM OF ...

Ring in the new year with the lilting Celtic voice and instruments of Amelia and The Flight Crew at Knox Presbyterian Church, ...

Comparing a traditional Irish music session to a typical jam session is more than misleading; it’s just plain false. A casual jam session could easily consist of an unplanned meeting of friendly ...

Although some of the performance is in the native tongue of their homeland, you won't be left out if you don't know Gaelic. The repertoire also includes familiar, beautifully melodic tunes in English.

Beyond “Danny Boy” Celtic music, says Richard Carlin, a record producer who has long specialized in the genre, “runs far, far deeper than something like Riverdance.” For the just-released Classic ...

For some area residents, St. Patrick’s Day’s means a time to wear green, eat green dyed food and drink green beer. But at Appalachian Bluegrass on Frederick Road, the time for Celtic music is not ...

John Connor, a lifelong traditional Irish musician, sits in a booth at Porter Belly’s Pub in Brighton, with his son Sean. Sean also plays traditional Irish music in a band called NightSide, following ...

There's a significant amount of crossover between Irish traditional music and videogame soundtracks. Some game composers cite Celtic musicians and musical groups as direct influences on their styles, ...

Everyone from The Dubliners to Denise Chaila makes an appearance in this succinct yet wide-ranging playlist of Irish music from Oprah Magazine. In a 2021 piece for Oprah Magazine, culture and music ...