This Austrian musician set up home here after falling in love with the sounds and sights of Ireland, says Alison O'Riordan It's been the inspiration for her latest masterpiece and it seems the ...

One of the fascinating aspects of Irish traditional music as a “Living Tradition” that keeps up with the times while preserving its essence is exploring what happens behind the scenes of the stage ...

Celtic music is going metal. The flutes, bagpipes and other woodwind instruments used for more than 500 years to play the folk music of Ireland and Scotland have historically been made, as one might ...

MADISON --Celtic music fans take note: Nuala Kennedy, a really good Celtic flute player, and her band will perform Friday night at the North Madison Congregational Church's Fire in the Kitchen concert ...

The Warren Concert Band’s annual “side-by-side” show on May 17 will feature a diverse and musically complex program and 15 high school musicians playing alongside the 75 regular band members. “It is ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

"Well, maybe one and a half," says Darlene Drew. That's because she's been down in the orchestra pit, hyperventilating over and through the 16 different flutes she plays over the course of a single ...

There’s a pipsqueak of a flute, just a foot long and barely thicker inside than a reed of grass. There are flutes twisted into triangles and other geometric shapes to fit the performers’ mouths. And ...