This is an exclusive song premiere, part of WBUR's effort to highlight New England musicians. It was a shared love of restraint that first bonded fiddler Maura Shawn Scanlin and guitarist Conor Hearn.

LAGUNA WOODS – Their audiences have included the president and prime minister of Ireland. Now Irish folk band Celtic Heart will share their blend of traditional and contemporary Irish and American ...

Sixteen-year-old Haylee Law is an accomplished fiddler. The Suncrest teen recently released her second CD, a collection of Celtic fiddle tunes titled “Here’s My Heart.” To get this far with her ...

Banish Misfortune, a Billings Celtic bluegrass band, is performing Saturday, March 17, at Yellowstone Valley Brewing Company’s Garage Pub. Doors open at 4 p.m. Banish Misfortune takes its name from ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Fiddle Dundee tried out a new tune Tuesday evening in Singing Strings Studio, on the second floor ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The handsome lads of Celtic Thunder are back ...

St. Patrick’s Day is coming, and so are many of the world’s finest Celtic fiddlers. The Celtic Fiddle Festival and Lunasa have already been here, and folk bands Altan, Solas and Gaelic Storm — all led ...

Folk-rock quartet Villages may be Canadian, but they have a feel for Celtic music. Inspired by a traditional poem, they create a tribute to their native Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, capturing ...

Irish fiddler Kevin Burke is always tickled to play in Tucson. “I often think this kind of music we play is typically wet-weather music,” Burke said in a phone interview from Portland, Ore., his home ...

ALTAMONT – The Irish 2000 Music & Arts Festival Saturday at the Altamont Fairgrounds bills itself as “The largest single-day Irish festival on the planet.” That may not be an exaggeration. This is the ...