Start the holiday season with a joyous performance of well-loved Irish classics and original compositions from the New England Irish Harp Orchestra on Saturday, Dec. 6, at 1:30 ...

A Taste of Ireland — The Irish Music & Dance Sensation is set to tour Michigan in October. The show, which features a cast of world champion Irish dancers and musicians, will kick off its Michigan ...

As a UNESCO City of Music and as the host of Jazz Promotion Network's (JPN) annual conference (see separate article), Belfast was expected to deliver on the musical front. And it did so, in tandem ...

The dean of the jazz guitar in Ireland was the late Louis Stewart. Ireland has a special place in its heart for the jazz guitar that probably has a lot to do with the music's poetry and the intimate ...

In this week's Listen Up, Brendan Keenan's 'Across the Atlantic' brings Irish culture from both sides of the pond.

Band members of the olllam derived the name from the Irish word “ollam” (or Old Irish “ollamh”), which refers to a master poet, learned person or professor. They added an extra “l” to represent ...

The Irish seem born with a love of music. At social gatherings, everyone's always ready to sing his or her "party piece." Performances are judged less by skill than by uninhibited sincerity or ...

In 1995, The Rolling Stones teamed up with The Chieftains, a traditional Irish folk band from Dublin, to cover “Rocky Road to Dublin” on the album Long Black Veil. The song, which is originally from ...

Lovers of Irish music — and those who simply enjoy the culture, community and “craic" (fun) of the Irish — are invited to the second annual Shamrock Soiree in Abita Springs on May 31. The Northshore ...

The heart of filmmaker Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" is the Delta blues. When the film opens, twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) have just returned to their rural Mississippi ...

Moloney recorded or produced more than 70 albums of Irish music and is credited with bringing traditional Irish music to a wider audience. He died July 27. Originally broadcast in 2006 and 2009. This ...