With vibrant Irish folk music melodies played by a live band lingering at the Embassy of Ireland in China, a warm-up before the marking of the occasion of Team Ireland's participation in the China ...

Ireland's folk music is renowned the world over for its melodic beauty and rhythmic vibrance. Less well known is the fact that some of the most important exponents of this music have been blind.

On a grey day in central Manchester, the three founding members of The Mary Wallopers are chatting to me on the upper floor of the university’s concert hall. They play traditional Irish music, ...

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...

The event opened with a set by the visiting Irish band Bóinn. From soulful folk classics like The Rocky Road to Dublin to a ...

OMAGH, Northern Ireland – Shining like a jagged American gem in the green dusk of an Irish evening, American singer-songwriter John Prine played and sang his heart out here recently at a 400-seat ...

The Gloaming, amid folksy fiddle notes reminiscent of Irish childhood, inserts its own modern take on an age-old art form. The band, consisting of fiddlers Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, ...

Irish singer, songwriter and storyteller Tommy Makem, who teamed with the Clancy Brothers to become stars during the folk music boom, has died of cancer. He was 74. Makem died Wednesday in Dover, ...

Irish traditional music is among the most popular World Music genres of our time. Performed by Irish and non-Irish musicians throughout the world and patronized by audiences in diverse social and ...

Seamus Egan is back on the market. After more than 20 years as a creative linchpin with traditional Irish band Solas, Egan became a musical free agent when the band went on hiatus last spring. Forming ...