A harp festival which has consistently attracted thousands of music lovers to Co Roscommon each year is appealing for funds for a permanent base. Several thousand people will this week attend the ...
Starting out as a three day festival in 1978 to commemorate Turlough O'Carolan, harper and composer, who is buried in Kilronan Cemetery, this festival and summer school is now a week long ...
On Friday night, Arcata Playhouse will introduce audiences to two potential unknowns: the rare wire-strung harp and the music and story of Ireland’s Turlough O’Carolan, regarded as the country’s ...
A national composer with an international stature, the 'blind harper' Turlough O'Carolan will be honoured at next week's Fleadh… A national composer with an international stature, the 'blind harper' ...
Celtic music, says Robin Williamson — he of the late, great Incredible String Band — is “an acorn that will grow another forest yet.” Williamson could as well have been referring to one man, four of ...