Singer Julie Fowlis is typically used to songs that are a tad older than the ones she sang in Disney/Pixar’s “Brave. “Her comfort zone is about eight centuries ago. There’s plenty of fanciful elements ...

In the week of the Equinox, we hear music with a Celtic connection. John Coleman sings the Celtic Daily Prayer of the Northumbria Community, and Iarla O Lionaird, a performer of traditional Irish song ...

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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 ...

Dick Gaughan is considered by many to be one of the great political singers of our time. Raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, of Irish and Scottish parents, Gaughan was a member of the Boys of the Lough, ...

The Lament for Art O' Leary (2024), a new opera by Irene Buckley with text by poet Vona Groarke will be premiered on RTÉ lyric fm's Lyric Feature this week - watch a preview above, and listen to The ...

GEOFF MacDonald, or Goiridh Domhnallach, as he prefers to be known, is one of a dying breed in Cape Breton. He speaks Gaelic. The Canadian island, part of Nova Scotia, is inextricably linked into the ...

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 ...