For a country with a rich musical heritage and fascinating mythology, it seems only apt that Ireland’s national symbol is the harp. Ireland is the only country that has a musical instrument ...

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If you are a musician, you will find lots of detail about your instrument in the Companion, from the uilleann pipes and harp to the spoons. Needless to say the ebb and flow of Irish music is reflected ...

The modern concert pedal harp is very different to the stringed instrument used to accompany Irish folk music, or the first versions of it found in 2500 BC. It is more powerful and richer in tone, ...

Something of a renaissance man, he was also a teacher, a lifelong beekeeper, an occasional music critic ... he has made some 300 specimens of the Irish harp from walnut or sycamore.

It wasn't a human head, of course, rather a papier mâché sculpture of a figure from Celtic folklore who, legend has it, would ...

I think Irish music has that potential in spades ... to write a couple of arrangements of old sean-nós songs for the harp. I wanted to try to bring the harp tradition and sean-nós tradition ...

Gay is a bit dry, but Kathleen is great fun,” Charlie Haughey once told me, summing up the most famous media couple of the ...

All are welcome for tales and songs celebrating Ireland’s Samhain or Halloween tradition at 7 p.m. Oct. 30 at the H.A.R.P.

The Middle East usually only comes into our consciousness here in the West in the context of war but a gig on Monday night ...

LAOIS musicians and groups shared funding totalling €14,611 from the latest round of the Music Capital Scheme. The ...

Trump has publicly fantasized about a “bloody story” of mass deportations and concentration camps targeting Black and brown ...