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South Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade will resume its full route this year, and the Dropkick Murphys are playing for four nights at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway. Another March tradition has also ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The traditional Celtic music session that met Sunday nights in the Baxter Hotel lobby is moving ...

FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks loves Celtic music, and when the Fairbanks Concert Association discovered they could book quintessential Irish-American band Solas on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, they rescheduled ...

Tomaìseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas brings to life the warm, festive community feeling of Christmas in a small village in 1940s and ’50s Ireland, complete with an array of musicians, dancers and ...

Winter hits hard and long in Northumberland, England, some 300 miles north of London. By the winter solstice, darkness has settled in so completely that the ancients worried whether the sun would ever ...

Multi-instrumentalists Jim Spalink and Michele Venegas of West Michigan’s Selkie didn’t grow up in the Celtic music tradition, but they long ago became spellbound by Irish music. Spalink first was ...

The internationally noted 'Gaelic Roots' series will present three events on campus during the spring semester, sponsored by BC's Center for Irish Programs in collaboration with University Libraries ...

Traditional Celtic music doesn’t usually involve choreographed dance shows, professional lighting and huge, glittery stage sets depicting ancient stone staircases. For that matter, a full orchestra ...

The Lawrence Irish traditional music session, pictured here in September of 2017, takes place each week on the second floor of Henry's. This month calls for a variety of Irish-themed events, but a ...

Comparing a traditional Irish music session to a typical jam session is more than misleading; it’s just plain false. A casual jam session could easily consist of an unplanned meeting of friendly ...