The Kennedy Center's ambitious "Ireland 100" festival continued Saturday evening with a strangely cobbled-together performance by Camerata Ireland (a chamber orchestra), Codetta (a small professional ...

Three masters of Irish music have recorded a DVD to explain the mysterious art of uilleann piping. Liam O'Flynn (pictured right), Ronan Browne and Tommy Keane -- three of the greatest living exponents ...

London, UK—Troy Donockley has built up a formidable reputation as both a composer/arranger and as a multi-instrumental musician/performer. He is a leading virtuoso of the Uilleann Pipes (and the Low ...

The County Wicklow Tinoil (Uilleann Pipes Festival) will take place on Friday and Saturday, February 27 and 28, in the Glendalough Hotel.This is the tenth year of the festival and it continues to go ...

The county of Clare has produced many notable sons and daughters, none more so than the great traditional musician Willie Clancy who died 50 years ago on January 24th. He came from an area rich in ...

What do John Lennon, "Braveheart," and UNESCO all have in common? Surprisingly, the famed Irish instrument the uilleann pipes. The traditional Irish instrument, the uilleann pipes, has received the ...

There is perhaps no sound so recognizable as the first drone of a bagpipe. That sustained note acts as harmony to the melody, which is fingered by the piper on the chanter. These days, bagpipes are ...

The old expression about mighty oaks growing from small acorns is a very useful one when referring to a new music book about to be published this month by Jawbone Press. It is an illuminating new ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Cait Fahy By the time Maria Somerville began work on Luster, her debut LP for 4AD, she’d ...

As the lineup shifted over the years, Moloney remained a constant in the band, playing the tin whistle and uilleann pipes (Redferns) Paddy Moloney, who helped revive traditional Irish music as the ...