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, from “Danny Boy” to rowdy pub songs to dynamic dance numbers, is a social practice. Nora Revenaugh of Clinton, who plays the fiddle and sings in both Irish and English, ...

When it comes to playing musical styles from across the globe, there’s a difference between being physically capable of executing all the notes and actually being immersed enough in the culture to ...

LITERALLY, LIKE NOT A DAY GOES BY WHERE I DON’T THINK ABOUT IRISH DANCING. IRELAND. MY PARENTS, MY FAMILY BACK HOME FOR MORE ...