Remembering Irish trad musician Chris Droney, who passed away on September 9 at the age of 95. “And down from Bellharbour Chris Droney he came. He played on a matchbox I thought twas that same. Till ...

Another very humble musician graces the Northeast over the next couple of weeks as Michael Tubridy makes a return visit this year to New York, Boston and Philadelphia to perform and teach sean nos ...

IT IS incredible how the world of music has changed over the past decade or so. Change has always been part of the way people hear music, since Sligo’s Michael Coleman and others first recorded ...

One of trad music's finest concertina players has resisted recording his music for 17 years. He talks to Brian O'Connell about his new album There has always been a certain resistance among sections ...

IMAGINE being arrested or even killed for absent-mindedly tapping a rhythm on a table – whether you're at home or in a café. Imagine how being a musician could likely lead to jail where even children ...

It might not seem like the fiddle and banjo of American folk music have much in common with the bodhran and concertina from Irish folk music, but they share common roots. At the SC Irish Arts Weekend, ...

Padraig Rynne, who appears in concert at Barrys, Grange, this Saturday night, is regarded as one of the finest exponents of the art of concertina playing in music today described as "pushing the ...

Accordions Around the World is a four-week series that brings over 100 accordionists, as well as bandoneón, bayan, concertina, and harmonium-players of different musical genres, to perform at Bryant ...

Bí Liom Bí brings together three exceptional artists working at the forefront of Irish traditional practice: harper, ...