Harpers and traditional musicians are expected in large numbers to the picturesque village of Keadue, on the shores of Lough Meelagh for the 32nd O'Carolan Harp Festival which takes place from July ...

ONE of the highlights of the O'Carolan Festival is the appearance of the Angel Band of Portsmouth U.S.A. They will give a special concert in Keadue Church on Saturday, August 4th. The band consists of ...

Patrick Ball is a Californian. He grew up in Marin County and settled some 15 years ago in Sebastopol. But his heart belongs to Ireland. ”Growing up, we always knew we were Irish, and were somehow ...

Patrick Ball has been playing the music of Turlough O'Carolan for many years. O'Carolan was a blind harper at the turn of the 18th century who is renowned as Ireland's national musician. Ball's solo ...

“The Irish people adored O’Carolan, partly because his music was uplifting, and also because he was an irresistible character, full of life and buoyancy. He liked good jokes, drinking and carousing,” ...

Siobhan (shuh-VAHN) Armstrong is one of today's top Irish harpers, and head of the Historical Harp Society of Ireland. She plays the ancient traditional wirestrung Irish harp that was popular from the ...

Celtic music, says Robin Williamson — he of the late, great Incredible String Band — is “an acorn that will grow another forest yet.” Williamson could as well have been referring to one man, four of ...

In 1792, a 19-year-old folk music collector and organist from Armagh named Edward Bunting assembled 10 of the finest harpers in Ireland for a festival in Belfast. They represented the best-and the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WHEN the Harp Consort last visited Melbourne for Musica Viva in 2006, it performed in Hamer Hall, a vast space for this ensemble's ...