Nothing lifts the spirits quite like traditional Irish music! Attend the very best of Irish trad music concerts from the comfort of your home with TG4's free music player. Irish trad music is all ...

Looking for the coolest traditional Irish music playlist on Spotify? We think we've found it! Whether you have massive FOMO from not making the trek to an Irish music festival or concert this year, or ...

The Irish seem born with a love of music. At social gatherings, everyone's always ready to sing his or her "party piece." Performances are judged less by skill than by uninhibited sincerity or ...

Irish traditional music and dance "belong to everybody", according to Belfast TradFest's founder and artistic director Dónal O'Connor. The festival celebrates traditional music, song and dance with ...

Nearly 1 million Michiganders say they're of Irish descent. The four-day festival brings that culture to Muskegon with ...

The St. Patrick’s season usually finds Boston overrun with bands doing a rowdy, rocked-up version of Irish music. Rest assured that Altan, one of Ireland’s finest traditional bands, doesn’t do any of ...

Dublin-based contemporary Irish folk and trad trio Saltaire is set to perform at the Ziro Music Festival, marking the first appearance by an Irish band at the gala on September 27. The trio comprises ...

The Gloaming, amid folksy fiddle notes reminiscent of Irish childhood, inserts its own modern take on an age-old art form. The band, consisting of fiddlers Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, ...

In 1995, The Rolling Stones teamed up with The Chieftains, a traditional Irish folk band from Dublin, to cover “Rocky Road to Dublin” on the album Long Black Veil. The song, which is originally from ...

Moloney recorded or produced more than 70 albums of Irish music and is credited with bringing traditional Irish music to a wider audience. He died July 27. Originally broadcast in 2006 and 2009. This ...

Sessions are the lifeblood of a centuries-old musical tradition. In New York bars, musicians are showing up, unpacking their instruments and diving in. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim See more of our ...

In 1973, I came to the United States to study folklore at the University of Pennsylvania, where Professor Kenneth Goldstein—my main inspiration and mentor—was head of the department. I took a trip to ...