Folks, last week the Irish Traditional Music Archive launched “From the Bridge: a view of Irish traditional music in New York,” a “major digital ex...

It’s not often that I receive an album that features hammer dulcimer, but that’s exactly what we have this week with Mary-Grace Autumn Lee’s album ...

Folks, lots of cool local stuff to talk about this week, so let’s get right into it! This year the Catskills Irish Arts Week is back and running at...

Folks, there’s lots to report on at the minute, so stay tuned as I will be covering a lot of ground in the coming weeks. And a good few things to l...

Traditional supergroup Téada, currently celebrating 21 years together, are just out with “Coiscéim Coiligh /As the Days Brighten,” a brand spanking...

There are a fair few legendary recordings of Irish music out there and one of them is “The Banks of the Shannon,” by Paddy O’Brien (button accordio...

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s Mid-Atlantic Fleadh – the first since 2019 – took place in Parsippany, NJ last weekend and I’m happy to report it was...

Readers, the time is nigh! This weekend – May 6-8 – the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Fleadh will take place at the Parsippany Hilton in Parsippany, New Jersey...

Joanna Clare is a young fiddle player who grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and moved to Baltimore in 2018, where she’s become an important part of the t...

I’ll start this week with a hearty congratulations to the great balladeer Jimmy Crowley, who I recently learned has published his 1,000th column ab...

In the deck this week is Dermot Byrne and Yvonne Casey’s most recent project, “As We Feel It.” A true duet CD, its delightfully straightforward art...

Last week I received an email from Don Meade, a multi-instrumentalist who has been one of traditional music’s fiercest supporters for decades, that...