At first glance, the fiddle looks a lot like a violin. The biggest difference is the piece that holds the strings together. "The bridge itself can be a little bit flatter, so you can play multiple ...

Imagine the looks a classically trained Taiwanese-American violinist would get walking into an Irish pub in Ireland and saying she was there to play traditional Irish fiddle music. That didn’t quite ...

It’s Saturday night in Nashville, and locals and tourists alike are flocking to live music venues to hear bands and singer-songwriters. But not everyone is partying at the downtown honky-tonks or ...

Over the past three decades, Boston College has become a wellspring of Irish traditional music and dance, notably through the Gaelic Roots concert and lecture series as well as courses in Irish fiddle ...

Lovers of Irish music — and those who simply enjoy the culture, community and “craic" (fun) of the Irish — are invited to the second annual Shamrock Soiree in Abita Springs on May 31. The Northshore ...

“As I started out playing the Irish fiddle, I was really just getting Irish stuff – Irish fiddle music by bands like the Bothy Band and Planxty, who were around in the ’70s. That was the kind of stuff ...

Irish traditional music, from “Danny Boy” to rowdy pub songs to dynamic dance numbers, is a social practice. Nora Revenaugh of Clinton, who plays the fiddle and sings in both Irish and English, ...