It’s just a beautiful instrument. And here in my pocket is a tin ... street parties and céilis – traditional Irish gatherings involving dancing and music – take place all over the world, including ...

The modern concert pedal harp is very different to the stringed instrument used to accompany Irish folk music, or the first versions of it found in 2500 BC. It is more powerful and richer in tone, ...

Rob Gándara, plays for his son, Finisterre. Gándara is an engineer who designs and makes a modern version of Uilleann pipes. Irish bagpipes, or Uilleann pipes (rhymes with chillin'), are a ...

For Wheeler, Irish music has been a lifelong passion and constant, if not the professional musician part. “My family was very musical, everybody played an instrument,” she recalls.