Journey Into Ireland’s Past and Present Through Music
Ireland’s past is filled with the work of poets and musicians. So too is its present. Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin, Mike Scott, Luka Bloom, and Cathie Ryan lead...
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Through the Wind and the Rain… a Collection of Songs
A friendly listening room above a restaurant In Philadelphia, a classy music area in a historic building in Old Town Alexandria, an intimate theater at Lincoln Center...
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Celtic Week Brings Music and Education to Asheville this Summer
The music of Ireland and Scotland is woven deep into the life of the southern mountains of the United States. It is also a thread that runs through the history of the...
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Four Irish Music Recordings You May Not Have Heard Yet…
Ballads, Orchestras, Bluegrass, and a Touch of Belfast: As Irish people came to North America, often times they were not able to carry much with them. They brought the...
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Christmas Music ’round the Irish Fireside
The festive and contemplative sides of life are part of Irish music all through the year, and never more so than at the Christmas season. Several newly released...
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Another Three Irish & Celtic CDs You Should Know
A collection featuring the music of Northern Ireland, the debut recording of a New England based Celtic band, and a collaboration of four superstar musicians from...
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Traditional Irish Musicians Honored
Every year, TG4, Ireland’s Irish language network, gives out awards honoring traditional musicians. These prestigious awards, known collectively as Gradam Ceoil, are a...
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Celtic Music for Mother’s Day
In Ireland, Mothers’ Day is traditionally celebrated on the fourth Sunday in Lent, which means it falls in March or April. In the Irish diaspora, though, in places such...
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Four Albums for an Irish Christmas… and One from Scotland for Good Measure
Submitted by Kerry Dexter Music is a big part of any Irish Christmas celebration. You’ll hear familiar carols, hymns, and popular seasonal songs such as White Christmas...
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Irish Christmas in America
Have you begun thinking about Christmas yet? You may want to: in just a few weeks the men of the Irish traditional band Téada (and on iTunes) are bringing their Irish...
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Irish Traditional Music Session with Dervish Takes to the Web
Community, conversation, a good time with friends, and also, if you pick the right time and the right place, good music: that’s what an evening in an Irish pub can be...
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Three More Celtic CDs You Should Know
Side by Side by The Kane Sisters The air fairly crackles when Liz and Yvonne Kane get together to play their fiddles. That’s something ace box player Sharon Shannon...
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Whatever Part of Ireland Figures in Your Travels & in Your Dreams, There’s Sure to be Music in It
Submitted by Kerry Dexter – Musical stories that came to him while watching two friends walk down the walk, while waiting for a session to resume, and while...
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Eileen Ivers Goes “Beyond the Bog” and Arrives at the Heart of the Irish Diaspora
“With Irish music, you’re cryin’ one minute and then you’re whoopin’ it up and bein’ joyful the next minute. We’ll be playing some really heart wrenching...
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Best Celtic Music of 2009
Matt and Shannon Heaton – Lovers’ Well – songs and tunes which invite you to reflect on love as both fleeting and eternal Tommy Sands with Fionan and...
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