The Shannon Rovers, a Chicago institution founded by Irish war hero Tommie Ryan, have been playing their bagpipe music at the ...

The 12th annual Summer BCMFest, which takes place July 5 at Club Passim, is previewed here while fiddle trio The Bowtides makes its long-awaited first Boston-area appearance at The Burren’s Brian ...

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...

In a former tattoo parlor in this Butler County city, she's preserving that history, one dulcimer at a time. Over the past four decades, Sasser has collected over 140 dulcimers, each with its own ...

Desree’s new single is an uplifting pop track built around a simple but powerful idea: sometimes the people we love mean far ...

This letter comments on writing-professor Candy Schulmann’s letter: “Chords of Memory,” from an AARP magazine edition where she talked about picking up her guitar for the first time in 50 ...

O'Looney will present a free afternoon of traditional Irish music June 28 at the North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame.

Send ‘em Home Sweatin’!” was the battle cry of Irish showbands during their rambunctious dancehall reign back in the 1960s.

Irish folk duo Ye Vagabonds not only release incredible music but keep great musical company, so when asked to recommend an ...

The plucked string has been singing since before history bothered to write anything down. Walk through any museum wing dedicated to ancient civilizations and you will see them: fragments of wood, bone ...

Gardaí launch murder probe after killing of woman who lived in Ipas centre with her two young children With closures accelerating, the pub is no longer the hub of Irish life, but that could be about ...

When James Talambas plays the long string instrument, he often imagines flying. The long string instrument, which was created by Ellen Fullman, is 60 feet long and features 44 bronze strings stretched ...