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Via Trad Connect: After a seventeen-year hiatus, Connemara melodeon player Mícheál Darby Ó Fátharta is back on the music scene with a new album, An Rithim Réidh. The title, roughly translated as ‘the ...

Musician Tracy Bonham has made a few missteps in her transition to teaching. “I sat down with a girl on piano and I said, ‘Music’s like math.’ As soon as I saw her face, I knew I made a mistake,” ...

Here's a question that never featured in Myles na gCopaleen's Catechism of Cliché, or at least not that I recall. With what feline wind instrument can any dire thing in Ireland be compared? Yes, well ...

A hundred years or more of consumer-level recorded music have moved us to a position in which most of us unconsciously consider music to be a recorded rather than live experience. Over a century ago ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This reed organ was made by Abraham ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This organ was made by William Pierce ...

JIM Crawford is a musician who is not inclined to hide his light under a bushel. At the grand old age of 90, he says he is playing ''better than ever''. So well, in fact, that he has just recorded his ...