The popular Paddy Killoran Traditional Music weekend is on from September 12-14 in Ballymote, Co Sligo. Paddy was born in Emlaghgissen, just outside Ballymote in 1903, where he learned the fiddle. He ...

You may have heard Kevin Burke's fiddle play on Arlo Guthrie's 1973 album "Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys," but the traditional Irish musician will unfurl a grander repertoire in person, ...

Irish folk music band The Mary Wallopers have said they “reject” the “misleading” statements issued by Victorious Festival organisers claiming the band used a “discriminatory” chant ...

A master traditional Irish fiddler and an outstanding local musician will take to the stage in a ‘very special concert’ in Tralee at 8pm on Saturday (August 23).

A new study shows that different emotional responses to music can selectively boost or impair different types of memory.

STAFF at Wexford General Hospital are currently battling an outbreak of Covid-19 on the wards. The 280-bed hospital has been hit with an outbreak of the virus for the second time in the space of two ...

Like an out-of-tune fiddle, there is discordance at play with regards to the hunger for traditional music among younger generations, and the disappearance of places where it can be played, honed ...