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 ...

Templar’s Hall in Old Poway Park will be the setting for a unique concert 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19. Concertina player Noel Hill, of County Clare, Ireland, will be performing traditional Irish music, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not only is Pádraig Rynne a fantastic concertina player, composer and arranger, he is also a great juggler. By that I mean that he can juggle all this with his role as a music educator with Music ...

I’m from Walkinstown, a first-generation Dub. My parents were from the west of Ireland, Roscommon and Galway to be exact. My mother played the fiddle, my father played the tape recorder. He hadn’t a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Music Generation Clare presents The Irish Concertina Orchestra featuring The Irish Chamber Orchestra, Cormac McCarthy and ZoDoMo (Zoe Conway, Máirtín O’Connor and Dónal Lunny). Discover the ...

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, ...

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