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 ...

Championed by the Stooges star and powered by twin Cole Clark True Hybrid acoustics, they’ve achieved international status ...

CUMBERLAND – Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., will present a matinee of Irish traditional music featuring The ...

Many people associate Irish music with folk songs played in pubs, poignant lyrics rooted in oral tradition, distinctive instruments like the fiddle, the penny whistle, drums and the uilleann pipes, a ...

Clare is rich in traditional music, and you’ll never be short of a session if you know where to go, writes Deanna O’Connor. Maura O’Connell, Martin Hayes, Willie Clancy, the Kilfenora Céilí Band—even ...

How many Irish composers do you know? Aficionados of Irish classical and folk music will of course know of many. Outside of this, the average music lover's knowledge of Irish composers is likely ...

St. Louis has its share of musical claims to fame, and our latest is also one of our greatest: St. Louis is home to one of the top Irish bluegrass bands on the planet. We’re talking about JigJam, the ...

Irish-American radio host Paul Sullivan has presented The Irish Hit Parade on Boston's WROL since 1982 after landing the job completely by accident ...

A founder of the band Planxty, Dónal Lunny went on to play for bands such as Moving Hearts, the Bothy Band and Coolfin among ...

The Rutz is like any great pub in Belfast, or anywhere in Ireland for that matter: kind of dingy, people stumbling out of the bathrooms, wiping powder off their faces, traditional Irish music playing ...