At first glance, the fiddle looks a lot like a violin. The biggest difference is the piece that holds the strings together. "The bridge itself can be a little bit flatter, so you can play multiple ...

PORTLAND — Mayo Street Arts will present an evening of traditional Irish song and dance with Fódhla at Mayo Street Arts at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 7.

He turned back the clock on inflight entertainment. A Ryanair flight resembled a folk concert at 30,000 feet after an Irish musician whipped out his fiddle and started playing to the delight of fellow ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Irish fiddle player Gerry O’Connor will perform with guitarist Don Penzien on Thursday. The concert is at 7:30 p.m. at the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road in ...

There’s a reason she’s called the Crazy Fiddle Lady. That’s the name Nerea Gourlaouen picked out for her YouTube channel when she was 15, thinking it would be funny. Fifteen years later, after playing ...

This past week I was up in Massachusetts to see a pair of concerts put on as part of the inaugural “Tunes on the Charles” ...

This year's Naperville Irish Fest is moving downtown, after two years at the Frontier Sports Complex. The annual festival, hosted by West Suburban Irish, will be Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22-23, in ...

There was no sleeping on a recent flight from Ireland to the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa. You never know what's going to happen up there in the air, and on this flight, folks were quite ...

Lest you forget, the first-ever Tunes on the Charles festival hits full stride this weekend, with plenty of sessions, concerts and workshops. Get the backstory on the festival here.•The Burren’s Brian ...