THREE IRISH ARTISTS are among ten acts to be named on BBC Radio 6 Music’s Artist of the Year list.The list, which is ...

From U2 to Aslan, Ireland has produced some of the very best live bands in the world. These five performances are up there with the best of what Irish music has to offer, boasting hard-hitting ...

"Shining trad music in a pop light gives it a cooler look to younger people - and it's the younger people that are going to keep these things alive." So says Oisin McManus - a piano player with ...

A drum 'n' bass track featuring a group of Irish kids has been longlisted for ... The Spark was produced by Garry McCarthy, who records music as GMCBeats and runs the workshops at Kabin Studio ...

That's a folk group, that performed largely vocal-less Irish traditional music while sitting down and whose image was largely 'guys in the back corner of a pub', beating some of the biggest groups ...

The Mary Wallopers are a contemporary Irish folk music group from Dundalk. They have a busy summer with gigs in the likes of Ireland, the UK and Germany. They're on at The Park Stage on Friday at ...

Choosing a baby name is no easy task, but it’s an opportunity to reflect on culture, tradition, and sometimes, a bit of ...

That’s when the team of Irish musicians Sorcha Costello and Mary MacNamara will perform here, sponsored by the Bridger Folk ...

As a part of its 2024 World Tour, “A Taste of Ireland -The Irish Music & Dance Sensation” came to Bloomington on Nov. 8 at the Buskirk Chumley Theater. Members of the Bloomington community came out to ...

I write about popular culture and the arts. The artistic sense of an ‘original spin’ on Irish traditional music reflects the range of musical influences that make up the distinctive brew of ...