The modern concert pedal harp is very different to the stringed instrument used to accompany Irish folk music, or the first versions of it found in 2500 BC. It is more powerful and richer in tone, ...

Ideally spontaneous, a session is a group of unaffiliated musicians convening (usually in a pub) to play traditional tunes. Anyone can show up with an instrument and join in if they know the tune and ...

No doubt you will have some remarks on Irish folk music, of which the Irish Suite is an orchestral setting. There is one troublesome point, namely in The Girl I Left Behind Me. According to the ...

Mike Connolly's film is an interpretative guide to Irish folk music and its evolving place in Irish culture and the world. Watch some fantastic additional songs performed by featured artists ...

felt a need to carry on the musician's commitment to the music and so established a summer school devoted to the uilleann pipes and other instruments integral to the playing of traditional Irish ...