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Curated by the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin, Tunes on the Charles is an exciting new venture to share top-class traditional Irish, music, dance and song in the Boston area. The festival features some of the best Irish musicians in Ireland and America in ITMA-sponsored concerts at the Somerville Theatre on Thursday (April 30)…
The Fleadh Cheoil (Irish Music Festival) is coming to Belfast, Northern Ireland in August, 2026 and Brack Tours is offering visitors the chance of a lifetime to experience the world’s largest festival of Irish music, dance and song. Organized by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, the Fleadh Cheoil attracts the best Irish musicians from around the world, who come for the…
It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas, to paraphrase the popular lyric, especially here in New England, where holiday shows inspire, comfort and bring joy to listeners, from big concert halls to small churches and cultural venues. It turns out New England has a distinctive connection to holiday music, since many iconic Christmas songs…
On March 21, 1926, two top traditional fiddlers from the British Isles and Ireland, 82 year old James Scott Skinner of Aberdeen, Scotland and 76 year old John Wiseman of Bantry, County Cork, arrived in Boston Harbor aboard the Cunard liner Carolina. They were here to compete in the World’s Old Fiddlers Contest, taking place April…
Enjoy a stunning musical performance in the beautiful setting of the Forbes House Museum. Regina Delaney loves performing traditional Irish Harp music which she studied in Ireland and the U.S. Twenty years ago, Regina founded The New England Irish Harp Orchestra, which she continues to direct. She has produced eight CDs, and has performed on…
In the 1950s, one of the finest traditional Irish music ensembles in Northern Ireland was the Clancy Brothers Ceili Band, out of Charlemont, County Armagh, led by brothers Pat, Eugene and Brendan Clancy. The talented trio toured North America as the Irish Ramblers in the 1960s with their hit album, The Patriot Game (Electra Records, 1963). We were…
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