Like many a musician, for Irish flute player and vocalist Shannon Heaton and her husband Matt, playing music has never been ...

Celtic music is going metal. The flutes, bagpipes and other woodwind instruments used for more than 500 years to play the folk music of Ireland and Scotland have historically been made, as one might ...

When it comes to playing musical styles from across the globe, there’s a difference between being physically capable of ...

Inspired by his book of the same title, "Of Mist and Stone" is the 29th album for Native flutist John Two-Hawks -- and marks his return from a Covid-induced pause. "After a four-year hiatus from ...

If you’ve always been eager to hear an Irish flute, tin whistle, button accordion and bodhran played live in a synagogue, you don’t have to wait much longer. The Heritage Aire Celtic Ensemble, one of ...

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There’s a pipsqueak of a flute, just a foot long and barely thicker inside than a reed of grass. There are flutes twisted into triangles and other geometric shapes to fit the performers’ mouths. And ...

A love of fiddles and Irish tunes drew me back to Ireland and to trad sessions—those toe-tapping, hand-clapping, pint-sipping Irish events when musicians gather in pubs to play traditional tunes. I ...