Fairhope-based concert violinist and fiddler Tom Morley has released a new book, “Learn to Play Irish Trad Fiddle,” which combines his love of playing Irish traditional music with his decades of ...

Irish-American fiddler Liz Carroll joins guitarist John Doyle on her latest CD, In Play. Her music made it from the American Midwest into the canon of Irish traditional tunes. Carroll talks to Melissa ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

Musician and academic Andrea Palandri began visiting Ireland from his native Italy in his teens. He became fascinated with traditional Irish music and the Irish language, and developed a particular ...

Martin Hayes is an internationally renowned, virtuosic, traditional Irish fiddle-player. The Irish Times newspaper said of him that, 'In the decades to come, we’ll surely talk of having seen this man ...

The Dubliners, in 2005. From left to right: Eamonn Campbell, John Sheahan, Barney McKenna, Sean Cannon, and Patsy Watchorn. Photo by Jim McCann This article appears in the July/August “British” issue, ...

Though she is a veteran fiddler with a solid five years of playing under her belt, it's a safe bet that just a year ago Abi Snell couldn't name a single Irish fiddle tune. A year later, she is the ...