Buy your tickets for the Chester River Chorale’s “A Celtic Christmas” concerts starting November 3! Tickets are expected to ...

A treasured traditional instrument has pride of place once more in a family home after a remarkable TV restoration. The bodhrán had been made by a son from his father's garden sieve. Torn, decayed and ...

I WAS IN bed for a week recovering from the Eleanor Shanley gig at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Cavan. There were more than 1,500 people in the Liberty Dome, a big white tent, with a stage in the ...

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The Footloose star – he’s got a ton of other stuff to his credit too, but the ‘80s dance movie will always be at the top – told RTE host Ryan Tubridy back in 2020 that he loves the Irish hand drum, ...

There are spaces still left for the popular bodhrán workshops being hosted online by John Joe Kelly and the Hawk's Well theatre. The intermediate workshop has sold out. They are being held for 6 weeks ...

The restoration of Derry musician Seamus McGuinness’s handmade bodhrán has featured in a bittersweet episode of BBC1 series The Repair Shop. Seamus, who died from cancer in March 2016, made the ...

AN INNOVATIVE new bodhrán tutor book designed to meet the needs of a bodhrán class in Co Armagh has sold out its first edition after attracting orders from 13 countries. Published last November, the ...

Documentary On One: Professor Mel Mercier, Chair of Performing Arts at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick, introduces Peadar Mercier, a documentary portrait of his ...

ONE of Kerry's most successful festivals is on the verge of going burst due to a lack of funding and corporate sponsorship. The World Bodhrán Festival, which was held in Milltown for the last three ...

London-based producer/vocalist Bonzai (one of the best new artists of 2016) has impressed us with her ability to infuse R&B influences with wildly inventive electronic production and a raw punk-rock ...

When Prince Charles picked up the bodhrán “bait” left on an empty chair beside a line of musicians playing a reel at the Cahir food market, the press pack almost lost its collective mind. Moments ...