South Africa, Germany and Japan are all located on different continents, but they have one thing in common: traditional Irish music sessions. The sessions are informal social gatherings that take ...

John Connor, a lifelong traditional Irish musician, sits in a booth at Porter Belly’s Pub in Brighton, with his son Sean. Sean also plays traditional Irish music in a band called NightSide, following ...

The St. Patrick’s season usually finds Boston overrun with bands doing a rowdy, rocked-up version of Irish music. Rest assured that Altan, one of Ireland’s finest traditional bands, doesn’t do any of ...

Irish eyes won’t be the only ones smiling! On July 30, Christel Rice, Tony DeMarco and Siobhán Butler will perform at Live at the Gantries, a series of free, outdoor performances in Long Island City ...

The Every Other Wednesday Session at the Harp and Celt There are all kinds of jams in the metro – from blues to jazz to folk to rap. But traditional Irish music is a bit of rarity, and that’s why the ...

One of the most influential and celebrated traditional Irish bands of our time, Lúnasa, will perform at Monroe’s Live this ...

It is 1984 in Detroit and Richard McMullan, an Irish-born high school teacher who happens to be musically inclined, is approached by the owner of a popular bar to gather a few bandmates and perform ...

One of the most exciting elements of the annual Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann (All-Ireland Music Festival) is the late Sunday night unveiling of that year’s senior ceili band champions who are whisked ...

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