Honestly I was a bit apprehensive when I found out that I would be interviewing an Irish band. I was a bit worried that I wouldn’t be able to understand them because of the accent. “You’ll be fine.” ...

Ruth Clinton and Cormac MacDiarmada talk about how the themes of the 18th- and 19th-century songs on their new album All ...

As a jazz musician and assistant professor of guitar at the University of Arkansas, Jake Hertzog's work often requires ...

FOLK music legend Bob Dylan has officially announced Irish tour dates for 2025 – and die-hard fans are in shock. The ...

Wales' "fragile" folk music tradition could "die within a generation" without urgent action, a new report has said. Research commissioned by Arts Council Wales found fewer young people were learning ...

The first five-and-a-half minutes of Sunwise’s opening track “Dùsgadh / Waking" are taken up by a drone. Played on the ...

Celtic music trio Kalos will bring together three masters of tradition for music. Ryan McKasson (fiddle, viola, background ...

The Montana Folk Festival kicked off Friday with large and appreciative crowds enjoying skilled musicians, mountain views and ...

Irish folk trio Amble got a surprise blast from the past on the opening night of their support tour with Hozier in the US when one of the lead singer's former students turned up in the audience.

A bold new cross-cultural music collaboration between traditional musicians from Northern Ireland and Iraq is set to take to ...

But that isn’t the end of the story: Horslips caused a stir by reforming for an orchestral concert in 2011 in Belfast.