The Tartan Terrors is back at the Fairfield Community Arts Center with “A Celtic Christmas” on Dec. 20. “We try to bring multiple, ethnic celebrations of the holiday season into our show. We really ...

Via The Journal Of Music: Cork University Press has recently published Beating Time: The Story of the Irish Bodhrán by Fintan Vallely, a major new study of the instrument with portraits of renowned ...

What: Singer/Songwriter Mary Roth will perform a concert titled "Enchanting Appalachia" --- a musical journey of the rich culture of Appalachia and its people. Mary Roth will perform songs 'Shady ...

This week I’m off the sounds and into the pages! Coming off the book stack this installment is “Beating Time: The Story of the Irish Bodhrán” by Fintan Vallely. A lavishly illustrated tome that fits ...

Ian Nyquist’s bodhrán didn’t sound like a bodhrán. He leaned over the black and white drum, holding up its frame with his left hand, while he hammered out an uptempo jig with the wooden cipín in his ...

There’s an old joke that goes, “What’s the best way to play a bodhrán? With a penknife.” The slag is reputed to have come from the piper Séamus Ennis – infuriated by beginners buying a bodhrán at a ...

A new book explores how the bodhrán became a popular musical instrument in surprisingly recent times John B Keane playing a bodhrán alongside its maker Sonny Canavan in a Newsround segment aired in ...

When Cathy Jordan went on stage at this year’s TG4 Gradam Ceoil concert it was as amhránaí na bliana – singer of the year. But she closed the event accompanying herself on the bodhrán, so putting the ...

The weekly protests, organized by The Democracy Cooperative, have grown in size since they began. Protestor Tom Berry criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio for supporting Trump's cuts to USAID.

Let's Go Swimming uses traditional Middle-Eastern frame drumming techniques, the modern style of frame drumming revolutionized by Glen Velez, Persian Zarb techniques and Indian drumming techniques.

From his small workshop in Burk’s Falls, Russell Duke creates some of the world’s best bodhran drums. Duke detailed how drumming came naturally to him, “I’ve been playing drums since I can remember, ...