One of Ireland's best known fiddle players, Martin Hayes, makes a return visit to the O'Carolan Harp and Traditional Music Festival in Keadue on Saturday, July 31st. Martin played to a packed house ...

Harpers and traditional musicians are expected in large numbers to the picturesque village of Keadue, on the shores of Lough Meelagh for the 32nd O'Carolan Harp Festival which takes place from July ...

“The Irish people adored O’Carolan, partly because his music was uplifting, and also because he was an irresistible character, full of life and buoyancy. He liked good jokes, drinking and carousing,” ...

As the year draws to a close, a new album has cast a fresh and unexpected light on our traditional music. Sligo fiddle player Séamus McGuire has taken the viola out from the shadows and placed it ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In the late 17th century, England invaded Ireland and took great tracts of land ...

The Legacy of Stephen Grier is a landmark recording of carefully selected tunes from one of Ireland’s treasured (but as yet unpublished) nineteenth-century collections. This is a long-awaited ...

If you hail from either Co Leitrim or Roscommon, you surely know that we are not referring to that harper from Lochmaben Towne who famously stole King Henry's wanton brown. No, we mean Turlough ...

Anglo-Celtic music with an antique twist will come to the Annisquam Village Church, 820 Washington St., Gloucester, when the O’Carolan Etcetera ensemble appears in concert, bringing to life the ...