BRATTLEBORO -- It takes a lot to impress the people who know you best. For April Verch, grudging admiration from old friends in the Ottawa Valley town of Pembroke, Ontario, came only after they saw ...

Now in its 13th year, IrishFest Atlanta has grown into a vibrant celebration of Irish heritage, gathering roughly 4,000 people for a three-day festival at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center and Roswell ...

SALISBURY — Irish step dancing dates back to 1750, and competing in the dance dates to the 1890s. The dance is still popular, though, and Rowan County’s own Rachel Newman is a 12-year-old Irish dancer ...

April Verch is a step dancer, a fiddler and since 2003, a singer. Her music spans everything from the traditional fiddle tunes of her native Ottawa Valley, Canada, to blues, jazz, folk and Latin. That ...

During the summer months most full-time bands are constantly on the road traveling and performing at festivals, summer concert series, theaters, and vacation venues across the northern hemisphere. Not ...

WEST KENNEBUNK, Maine – Andrea Beaton, Troy MacGillivray and Sabra MacGillivray – some of Atlantic Canada’s finest performers of traditional music and dance – will appear in an extraordinary concert ...

EAST GRAND FORKS — Jeanne O’Neil, co-founder of North Country Fiddle and Dance, isn’t worried about the traditional songs and dances her organization helps put together going away anytime soon. While ...