Country music has long had a bit of Ireland in it. Irish folk music's role in rooting commercial mainstream country music to its past, including those of the settlers of Belfast, Northern Ireland, 400 ...

CUMBERLAND – Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St. will present an evening of Irish traditional music featuring Lúnasa on ...

Singer Eddie Keogh can’t quite convey how shocked he is by his band’s success. Because, it should be noted, Kingfishr plays Irish folk music. “It’s more likely that you would win the lotto,” Keogh ...

Lankum, a contemporary Dublin folk band consisting of brothers Daragh and Ian Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada, and Radie Peat, also took home the Best Folk Album award for their 2023 LP "False Lankum." ...

A folk singer described as "the finest Irish male folk singer-storyteller this side of Christy Moore and Paul Brady" is set ...

Known for his mastery of the uilleann pipes, Moloney was an important ambassador of Irish folk music to the wider world. Paddy Moloney, a co-founder of the Irish folk band The Chieftains, died today.

“In Ireland, folk music is a living tradition,” a crotchety old drunk in a Galway pub once told me. It wasn’t simply about revering the past by teaching children the songs of their forefathers, he ...

WEST STOCKBRIDGE — The beautiful thing about Irish folk music, in Karan Casey’s view, is how totally it reflects the people who make it. Casey, a longtime practitioner whose solo work stretches back ...

Past traditions meet a new style. Folk singer/songwriter Mickey Coleman is the latest sensation to hit the Irish folk music scene. A former champion Gaelic football player from County Tyrone, Coleman ...