On Friday night, Arcata Playhouse will introduce audiences to two potential unknowns: the rare wire-strung harp and the music and story of Ireland’s Turlough O’Carolan, regarded as the country’s ...

Starting out as a three day festival in 1978 to commemorate Turlough O'Carolan, harper and composer, who is buried in Kilronan Cemetery, this festival and summer school is now a week long ...

A national composer with an international stature, the 'blind harper' Turlough O'Carolan will be honoured at next week's Fleadh… A national composer with an international stature, the 'blind harper' ...

A harp festival which has consistently attracted thousands of music lovers to Co Roscommon each year is appealing for funds for a permanent base. Several thousand people will this week attend the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Celtic harp is a symbol for all things Irish—displayed on everything from cans of Guinness to the coat of arms—but its haunting sound is rarely heard. Vancouver listeners have an opportunity to ...

Liam Purcell, Tommy Guihen, Declan Noone playing at the O'Carolan Festival, Keadue Photo taken at the Harp Workshop at the O'Carolan Summer School in Keadue Photo taken at the Concertina workshop at ...